Objective European countries contain a large amount of surface transport infrastructure, which sometimes appears inappropriate to meet societal demands.Road-building techniques have developed slowly, due to a limited number of significant technical breakthroughs, poor coordination among stakeholders and a focus directed primarily on resolving current problems.No global European road concept has yet come to the fore; the upcoming enlargement of the European Union should heighten the acute need for a sustainable integrated European surface transport network.Road-related budgets have been steadily decreasing while user expectations become more demanding and contradictory: increased transit capacities, higher safety levels, pollution mitigation (sound, air), aesthetic integration. Creating a global vision for the road of the future and confronting both technological and societal problems within a single research process have thus taken on urgency; such is the objective behind the NR2C proposal. Based on a large survey among road stakeholders, this project is aimed at selecting safe, environment-friendly and subtle concepts in order to strike a compromise between reduced global construction/maintenance costs, safety and environmental criteria.A number of innovations targeted for different social and geographical environments will be selected to achieve pilot applications in support of a long-term perspective. NR2C will consider urban and interurban areas as well as needs specific to Western and Central Europe;bridges, considered as single network nodes,will be studied separately. FEHRL(Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories)will perform a decisive clustering role in addition to conducting major dissemination actions.Moreover the management function will be given special attention via a dedicated work package.Special efforts will be made to avoid duplication with ongoing projects backed by either previous FPs or other European and international bodies. Fields of science engineering and technologycivil engineeringengineering and technologymaterials engineeringnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionsocial sciencessocial geographytransportnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software Keywords Noise abatement interurban roads pollution mitigation sustainable infrastructure urban roads Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-2002-3.2.2.2.6 - Design and manufacture of new construction concepts for road, rail and inter-modal infrastructures SUSTDEV-2002-3.4.1.4.3 - Road infrastructure safety Call for proposal FP6-2002-TRANSPORT-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator LABORATOIRE CENTRAL DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES EU contribution No data Address Boulevard Lefebvre 58 PARIS France See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all MINISTERIE VAN VERKEER EN WATERSTAAT Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Van der Burgweg 5044 DELFT See on map Total cost No data ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE Switzerland EU contribution No data Address Ecublens LAUSANNE See on map Total cost No data MSC MAGYAR SCETAUROUTE LTD ENGINEERS AND CONSULTANTS Hungary EU contribution No data Address Hungaria krt 113 BUDAPEST See on map Total cost No data FORUM OF EUROPEAN NATIONAL HIGHWAY RESEARCH LABORATORIES Belgium EU contribution No data Address Boulevard de la Woluwe 42, Boite 3 BRUXELLES See on map Total cost No data OPZOEKINGSCENTRUM VOOR DE WEGENBOUW Belgium EU contribution No data Address Bd de la Woluwe 42 BRUXELLES See on map Total cost No data AUTOSTRADE PER L' ITALIA S.P.A. Italy EU contribution No data Address Via A. Bergamini 50 ROMA See on map Total cost No data GREISCH INGENIERIE Belgium EU contribution No data Address Parc Scientifique du Sart-Tilman - Allée des Noisetiers, 25 LIEGE See on map Total cost No data EUROVIA MANAGEMENT SNC France EU contribution No data Address Place de l' Europe 18 RUEIL MALMAISON See on map Total cost No data EGIS STRUCTURES ET ENVIRONNEMENT SA France EU contribution No data Address Avenue du Centre 11 CS 30530 GYANCOURT See on map Total cost No data
