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THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR TRANSPORT, DEVELOPMENT AND NETWORKS ACTIVITY REPORT CONTENTS Editorial .................................................. 3 B+R: promoting the bicycle as a feeder UNDERSTANDING, ASSESSING Let’s hear from ........................................... 4 mode to railway stations .............................30 AND MITIGATING IMPACTS ON THE > Jean-Marc Zulesi ............................... 4 Transpolis....................................................31 ENVIRONMENT AND THE POPULATION .........44 > Anne-Marie Herbourg ........................ 5 The EMI 2-4 project: analysis of the 2017 Highlights .......................................... 6 THEME 2: MORE EFFICIENT AND emissions from motorised two-wheelers Focus ..........................................................10 RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE ........... 32 and quadricycles .........................................44 IFSTTAR at the National Mobility ADAPTING INFRASTRUCTURE ......................33 NoiseCapture: a smartphone application for Consultation (Assises nationales SUP&R ITN: an international project to noise environment mapping........................45 de la mobilité) ......................................10 increase the lifespan of bridges ..................33 The GRAFIC projectC .................................45 FUTURE: inventing the city of tomorrow ..11 DEDIR: from Design to the Sustainable SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT .46 Prizes for PhDs ...........................................12 Maintenance of Road Infrastructure ...........33 Collective expert appraisal on urban COST-GPR TU 1208 : Civil land uptake .................................................46 engineering applications of Ground Sense-City: the mini-city for Penetrating Radar .......................................34 tomorrow’s city ...........................................46 SCIENTIFIC LIFE: The Clerval VIPP beam project ...................34 The Proteus project: the digital city RESEARCH AND EXPERTISE.........14 DEVELOPING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY ........35 and water quality ........................................47 Structuring research activities ....................16 The BioRePavation project .........................35 The activities of the TerriTAP network ........47 Support for research activities ....................17 The RECYBETON National Project: PhD activities ..............................................18 recycling of concrete ...................................36 International and national networks ...........18 The re-use of urban soils in road Support for public policies .........................19 Key Figures .................................................48 construction ................................................36 Links with the social and economic world ..20 Contracts in 2017 ................................. 49 Terra-Nova: recycling new materials and Forward to the “FUTURE” ..........................21 PhD activities ....................................... 50 improving construction techniques, both Human resources ................................. 52 for earthworks and building construction ...37 IFSTTAR’s participation THEME 1: EFFICIENT TRANSPORT NEW TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE and represention .................................. 54 AND SAFE TRAVEL .............................. 22 AND ENERGY PRODUCTION ...........................38 Revenue and expenditure ...................... 55 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MOBILITY ...........23 The FOX project: Forever Open Organisation ...............................................56 The Mobility and Digital Transition infrastructure across all transport modes Location of the laboratories.................... 57 unifying project ...........................................23 – Road map.................................................38 Organisational chart of the Board Proceedings of Mobility and Digital The SURFFEOL project: the monitoring of Directors .......................................... 58 (R)evolutions ...............................................23 and reliability of wind turbine foundations Organisational chart of the European grant: the Smartwalk project (IFSTTAR/ Pays de Loire Region, Scientific Board ................................... 59 for more precise geolocation.......................24 2014-2017) ................................................39 Acronyms ....................................................60 The H2020 project: Roll2Rail ....................24 The cable fatigue test bench finds INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ...................25 a finds a second youth ................................39 ESANN’2017 ..............................................25 RailLille2017 Conference ...........................25 THEME 3: PLANNING AND FUI AWARE project: cameras to PROTECTING REGIONS ...................... 40 provide better all-weather visibility ............26 FORESEEING NATURAL AND Future-oriented workshop on CLIMATE RISKS ...........................................41 automated mobility ....................................26 Discrete numerical analysis of the risk of ROAD SAFETY AND THE HUMAN subsidence and swelling associated with CONSEQUENCES OF ACCIDENTST .................27 underground cavities ..................................41 Analysis of cranioencephalic traumas .........27 The FUI Newtun: a method DALVAR: Description of the associations for forecasting the settlement between the Injuries sustained by road caused by the excavation of traffic accident casualties ..........................28 urban tunnels and the influence of CHUT: Better understanding skin injuries presupport ..................................................41 in order to propose design improvements “Characterisation and design of rock for passenger compartments ......................28 structures” (CADOROC) .............................. 42 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SERVICES Development of a 3D macro-element AND THEIR USES ..........................................29 for analysing the seismic behaviour of KAROS: understanding practices in order shallow foundations ....................................43 to optimise intelligent carpooling ................29 HyClAU: learning from hydrological and climatic The Altaroad start-up ..................................29 processes to improve urban planning ..............43 Instant deliveries ........................................30 — RETURN TO CONTENTS — EDITORIAL / 03 EDITORIAL 2017 - EFFORTS CROWNED WITH consultation was an opportunity to highlight SUCCESS our research, expertise and breakthrough innovations... It also testifies to the desire to initiate a new drive for progress on the issues that concern us. With 163 contracts signed with a combined value of more than €18 million, our contract-based research activity has grown © photo-colpia.com 017 saw many of our significantly. It has achieved its goals, projects flourish, facilitated namely to increase our internal resources, by fewer financial to favour research contracts generating management constraints. profits and to increase ties with the world We have become better of industry. One example is the I-Street 2 organised, produced project. research that is as valuable as ever and have been in greater demand, particularly This major programme, funded to the tune by the socio-economic world. These of €3.7 million by ADEME, was the winner favourable conditions have reinforced our of the "Road of the Future" call for projects influence in France and abroad. They have and links us with major partners such as also helped us forge new partnerships. the Eiffage group. Within the framework of the Future Our activity in 2017 was also notable Investments Programme, we obtained the for the start of work on the Transpolis certification of the I-Site FUTURE, which innovation platform and the completion is a sign of the recognition of the scientific and institutional excellence of the project to create an establishment that we are jointly undertaking with our neighbouring partners: UPEM, ESIEE Paris, EAVT, EIVP, IGN and ENPC. To accompany this merger Our contract- process, which will help us all to develop, the first seminars aimed at achieving based research mutual understanding were held. These activity periods of discussion between staff were a genuine success. has grown HÉLÈNE They reflect a shared desire to step up significantly. cooperation in order to build a university JACQUOT-GUIMBAL, with an international profile in the areas Managing Director of the city and the transport of the future. of IFSTTAR For example, this project has enabled us not only to develop new multidisciplinary of work on the Sense-City Facility of training courses at all levels, but also to Excellence. SI Research, our tool for undertake the first joint research work collecting and sharing information about between the various I-Site laboratories. our teams' output, has been deployed in We should not forget our provincial sites all our departments and laboratories. Some either. Already affiliated with other schools important projects for the Institute have also or universities, they also contribute to been successfully launched, for example enhancing training, enriching our national the Goals and Performance Contract (COP) and international partnerships, and 2017 - 2021 as well as our four unifying benefiting civil society with our innovations. projects. Following the example of the At the invitation of the Ministry of "R5G" project, these scientific leadership Transport, our researchers provided set-ups developed by our