2016 STA Annual Conference & Innovation Awards Proceedings

Conference Proceedings 2016

Time

Programme

9:15 – 10:00

Opening Plenary Session: Smart Transportation Infrastructures Connecting People and Businesses Across the World

Smart finance for smart infrastructures? – Mario Aymerich, Director, Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank (EIB)

10:00 – 11:00

Roundtable: Key Challenges for Transport Infrastructures in the Smart Mobility Era

Thematic Session 1: Key Challenges for Transport Infrastructures in the Smart Mobility Era – José Manuel Vassallo, Patrick Le Pense, Elena de la Peña, Wolf P. Zeplin

11:15 – 12:15

Case Studies: Bringing Smart Transportation Infrastructures into Reality

Towards More Use of ICT in Road Engineering – Wim Van den Bergh

Cooperative ITS Services: FOTsis Case Study – José Manuel Menéndez

Innovation for Sustainability – César Bartolomé

How to Increase Road Safety “Smartness”: Focus on Safer Roadsides through Passive Safe Road Infrastructure – Patrick Asimus

13:00 – 13:45

2016 Annual Innovation Awards

Person of the Year:

Dr Alistair Clark , Managing Director for Environment and Sustainability, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Best Innovation Projects:

FOTsis (European Field Operational Test on Safe, Intelligent and Sustainable Road Operation)

The TEV Project

14:30 – 15:00

Presentation of HIPEBA Project

Overview, Project outcomes after mid-term period and Project communication activities – José F. Papí, Chairman, Smart Transportation Alliance