@CRUiSE

Advanced Impact Integration Platform for Cooperative Road Use .

UNDERSTANDING ROAD TRAFFIC IMPACTS OF

CAPTIVATING AND TRANSFORMATIVE MOBILITY
PARADIGMS: THE @CRUiSE PROJECT

Margarida Coelho, @CRUiSE Scientific Coordinator, DEM/TEMA

Aveiro, May 8, 2019

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MOTIVATION
- Europe: ~33% of energy consumption from transportation sector
- Road transportation: ~73% of transportation-related GHG emissions
- Vehicle emissions → important source for air pollution (NOx, PM)
- Road crashes: >1million people die every yr.

- Road transportation: dominant source of

noise in Europe, representing ~90% of total
noise emissions
- Conventional fuels are expected to remain
predominant over the next decades

Ref: UN Habitat
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RESEARCH ON TRANSPORTATION @ DEM/TEMA

1. Impacts of transportation systems

2. Connected and automated mobility

3. LCA of alternative energy vectors for road

vehicles

4. Active modes (cycling & walking)

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RESEARCH ON TRANSPORTATION @ DEM/TEMA ↔ INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Electronics /
Computer
Science

Engineering:
- Mechanical Transportation Mathematics
- Civil Research @
Physics
- Environment DEM/TEMA

Sustainable
Energy
Systems
RESEARCH ON TRANSPORTATION @ DEM/TEMA ↔ PARTNERSHIPS
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Advanced Impact Integration Platform for Cooperative Road Use .

THE @CRUiSE PROJECT

Aveiro, May 8, 2019

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RESEARCH CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES

Where are the traffic congestion and emissions hotspots?

What are the most critical links in terms of traffic congestion? And safety?

Where should we reduce air pollution? And noise?

What are the most vulnerable areas?

Existence of data:
1. Increasing availability of sensor technology
to record large amounts of data
2. Smartphone location data
3. GPS (probe vehicle data)
4. Cell phone density
5. Traditional traffic road monitoring network
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OBJECTIVES OF @CRUiSE
Goal: To integrate road traffic impacts into a single analytical framework for use in advanced
traffic management systems (ATMS).

Duration: 1/6/2016 - 31/5/2019

3 main pillars:
a) Designing a conceptual methodology for assigning a link-based indicator that can evaluate
different traffic-related externalities, adjusted to local contexts of vulnerability;

b) Improving the interoperability between traffic-related models and new sources of traffic
information;

c) Optimizing the network operations by means of a decision support system.

Consortium: TEMA (leader), CESAM, IT
International expertise: North Carolina State University;
University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University of Salerno
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TASKS
Task 1 • Literature review and experimental setup

Task 2 • Experimental work - Road and environmental conditions monitoring

Task 3 • Development, integration and validation of related-traffic models

Task 4 • Dynamic link-based eco-indicator

Task 5 • Data fusion and data management

Task 6 • Network optimization and design of a decision support system

Task 7 • Prototype / Software and applications development

Task 8 • Dissemination and Reports

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MAIN DELIVERABLE
Integrated decision support system for selecting the appropriate traffic
management measures
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CONTACTS http://transportes-tema.web.ua.pt

margarida.coelho@ua.pt

Acknowledgements

HTTPS://PROJECT-CRUISE.WEEBLY.COM/

AVEIRO, MAY 8, 2019