NR2C: New road construction concept

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 03.0318
• Projekttitel Englisch: NR2C: New road construction concept

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Noise abatement; pollution mitigation; sustainable infrastructure; urban roads. Interurban roads

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: 505831

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 1.6.2 Urspr. Progr. Sustainable surface transport

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Weitere Hinweise und Angaben (Englisch)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
EPF Lausanne
Département de Génie civil
LAVOC Laboratoire des voies de circulation

Abstract (Englisch)

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 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.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 03.0318