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Strong representation of AIT at ECTRI
digitalization and automation. The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology continues to be prominently represented in ECTRI. With several newly elected and reappointed positions, AIT underscores its leading role [...] management. Wolfgang Ponweiser, also at AIT, has been active on the ECTRI board for several years and currently serves as vice president. These appointments underscore AIT's active role in European transportation
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Augmented CCAM
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tools and methodologies for policy making and CCAM-ready infrastructure investments will be proposed. AIT Mobility Observation Box Augmented CCAM consists of a multi-stakeholder consortium of 26 Partners from [...] Roughly 50% of them are firms (30% Industries , 50% of which road operators, and 18,5% of them SMEs). AIT will lead the activities towards requirements and prioritized adaptions of PDI solutions as part of [...] directives on European and national level. Within the impact assessment of the developed PDI solutions, AIT will deploy the Mobility Observation Box for assessing traffic safety of the overall network using
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Road safety: "WildWarn" project takes third place in the KFV Forschungspreis 2024
Great success for the AIT road safety team with Michael Aleksa, Peter Saleh and Anna Huditz: On Thursday, June 20, the "WildWarn" project led by AIT was awarded third place in the KFV Forschungspreis [...] roadkill. In order to reduce these alarming figures, an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology has launched the pioneering "WildWarn" project, which pursues innovative [...] boar, as well as information on forest structure are also included in the analyses. Michael Aleksa, AIT traffic safety expert and project manager of "WildWarn", explains: "Our innovative approach of merging
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Concreting under traffic for efficient bridge rehabilitation
As a scientific partner, the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is contributing its expertise in the fields of construction dynamics and vibration forecasting. The AIT experts are thus instrumental [...] specimens are systematically excited to vibrate using the Mobile Seismic Simulator (MoSeS) of the AIT. In further test series, reinforced concrete slabs are shaken to investigate the effects of vibrations [...] scheduled to run for two and a half years, was then initiated in cooperation between Smart Minerals and AIT and launched as an FFG industry project. Top-class consortium from industry and research In the COUNT
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AMIGOS: Active Mobility Innovations for Green and Safe City Solutions
, Istanbul, Las Rozas, Jurmala, Bologna, Reykjavik, Nazareth, Ankara). The digital tools include AIT’s Mobility Observation Box and an application for the collection of new mobility data, which will feed [...] impacts will be assessed, in addition to their medium- and long-term impact and their replicability. AIT will, among other activities, lead the impact assessment in AMIGOS, evaluating the proposed urban mobility [...] mobility solutions in terms of safety, environment, economy, society, and gender. Within this work, AIT will perform a before/after study for the ten safety improvement areas collecting real traffic data
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Increased road safety through data-based measures
Europe occur on minor roads – a problem that the European research project CAMBER is addressing. The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is contributing its expertise in data collection. “With the high [...] traffic flows in real time,” explains Isabela Erdelean, an expert in infrastructure technology at AIT. Supplemented by smartphone data and digital twins, targeted safety measures are to be developed and
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AIT presents transport and mobility research at Transport Research Arena 2022
was extremely successful with more than 2,000 participants, over 600 speakers and 60 exhibitors. The AIT Centers for Energy and Low-Emission Transport seized the opportunity of the largest European research [...] the status of their research. In addition to participating in the joint booth of Advantage Austria, AIT was able to give an insight into the broad spectrum of mobility research with more than 16 presentations
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e-WALK: E-Scooter-Fahren sicherer machen
Im kürzlich abgeschlossenen Projekt e-WALK untersuchten AIT-Verkehrssicherheitsforscher*innen gemeinsam mit den Expert*innen des Kuratoriums für Verkehrssicherheit (KfV) und von HERRY Consult die Sicherheit [...] braucht es, um E-Kleinstfahrzeuge langfristig und sinnvoll in ein Mobilitätssystem zu integrieren? Der AIT-Projektverantwortliche Klemens Schwieger vom Center for Low-Emission Transport berichtet: „Wir haben [...] wie E-Scooter den Mobilitätsmix sinnvoll ergänzen können: Weitere Infos zum Projekt: https://www.ait.ac.at/e-walk/
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Ein neues dynamisches Lastmodell für Eisenbahnbrücken
Alois Vorwagner, Baudynamik-Experte am AIT Center for Low-Emission Transport, war eingeladen, bei der 23. deutschen Jahresfachtagung der Eisenbahn-Sachverständigen im Rahmen eines Onlinevortrags über [...] DZSF des EBA (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt) entwickelt nun ein internationales Konsortium (TU Darmstadt, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, KU Leuven und REVOTEC) ein neues normgerechtes dynamisches Lastmodell [...] e ermöglichen und auch schnelle Güterzüge berücksichtigen. Weitere Infos zum Projekt: https://www.ait.ac.at/themen/baudynamik-und-bauwerksshybewertung/projects/eba-lastmodell Zur Jahresfachtagung der
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Wie lassen sich Wildunfälle verhindern?
sollen, vor herannahenden Autos eine Straße zu überqueren. Im Zuge der Projekts WiConNET entwickelten AIT-ForscherInnen um Verkehrsexperten Michael Aleksa ein mobiles Messlabor für Wildwarngeräte, das es erstmals [...] Die Sendung P.M. Wissen (Servus TV) berichtete nun über das Wildwarner-Messlabor und sprach u.a. mit AIT-Projektleiter Michael Aleksa und dem Wildökologen Martin Forstner. Hier der Link zum Beitrag! Insbesondere [...] sollen, vor herannahenden Autos eine Straße zu überqueren. Im Zuge der Projekts WiConNET entwickelten AIT-ForscherInnen um Verkehrsexperten Michael Aleksa und Bildverarbeitungsexperten Lukas Traxler ein mobiles
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AIT plays key role in new road safety initiative of the European Commission
directives and legislation, especially in the field of road safety. Isabela Erdelean, researcher at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and rapporteur of ECTRI Thematic Group Safety, will represent ECTRI [...] ECTRI together with other stakeholders appointed by the Commission,” says Peter Saleh, who heads the AIT road safety team.
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Tag der Verkehrssicherheit
und den Automobilclubs ÖAMTC und ARBÖ bietet das AIT dem Publikum bei freien Eintritt ein spannendes Programm – so wird unter anderem erstmals das neue „AIT RoadLab“ sowie das Messmotorrad „MoProVe“ präsentiert [...] die so gewonnenen Erkenntnisse mit jenen Daten abglichen werden, die mittels Mess-PKW (AIT RoadLab) oder Mess-LKW (AIT RoadSTAR) erfasst werden und liefern somit einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Hebung der [...] präsentiert. Präsentation des neuen Messfahrzeugs „AIT RoadLab“ Das Hochleistungsmessfahrzeug „RoadLab“ (Road Laboratory for High Performance Measurement), ein speziell umgebauter MAN TGE, ist mit modernster
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Optimally Exploiting the Life Cycle of Railroad Bridges
bridges, tunnel structures or noise barriers. The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and REVOTEC are part of the top-class consortium as Austrian partners. AIT is particularly involved in the development of [...] for Structural Dynamics & Life Cycle Engineering at the AIT Austrian Insitute of Technology: "The extrapolation model co-developed by AIT is the basis for refining the measurement data and thus the [...] DEEB-INFRA project consortium Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Statik und Konstruktion AIT Austrian Institute of Technology REVOTEC zt gmbH Deutsche Bahn AG – DB Training Learning & C
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HoSMoS: Flood protection from space
How stable are our flood protection dams really? The HoSMoS project, led by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, is investigating how satellite technology can be used to detect damage to dams at [...] “Our goal is to identify danger spots with millimeter precision – before it's too late,” explains AIT project manager Vazul Boros in an interview with “Der Standard”. The InSAR technology, which makes
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Dynamic measurements on Austria's oldest railway bridge
of the southern railway line Vienna Trieste. On behalf of ÖBB, the structural dynamics team of the AIT Center for Mobility Systems has now carried out extensive measurements on the Hammelbach Bridge. The [...] loads or vibrations can occur, especially due to the interaction between rail vehicle and bridge. The AIT team used a non-contact laser Doppler vibrometer to determine the vibrations in the centre of the arch
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WildWarn
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Transportation Infrastructure Technologies +43 50550-6236 +43 50550-6439 michael.aleksa(at)ait.ac.at Consortium AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (Coordination) Pentamap GmbH WWN Technisches Büro [...] roadkill. In order to reduce these alarming figures, an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology has launched the pioneering WildWarn project, which pursues innovative [...] wild boar, as well as information on forest structure are included in the analyses. Michael Aleksa, AIT traffic safety expert and project manager of WildWarn, explains: "Our innovative approach of merging
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Augmented CCAM: The future of mobility through innovative infrastructure solutions
Roughly 50% of them are firms (30% Industries, 50% of which road operators, and 18,5% of them SMEs). AIT will lead the activities towards requirements and prioritized adaptions of PDI solutions as part of [...] directives on European and national level. Within the impact assessment of the developed PDI solutions, AIT will deploy the Mobility Observation Box for assessing traffic safety of the overall network using [...] three European Countries (Spain, Latvia, France). Andrea Schaub, who is responsible for the project at AIT, explains: “Augmented CCAM will provide another step towards broad deployment of connected, cooperative
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Assets4Rail - Research for the railways of the future
As part of the EU project Assets4Rail, the AIT team led by project manager Marian Ralbovsky developed a probabilistic method for the fatigue assessment of steel bridges taking into account actual train [...] standard models, which facilitates the planning of necessary maintenance. This new tool developed by AIT received very positive feedback from representatives of the railway infrastructure operators and members
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How is Austria's road infrastructure inspected?
damage at an early stage, prevent accidents and save costs.RoadSTAR, a mobile laboratory developed by AIT and equipped with state-of-the-art sensors, satellite navigation and camera technology, records all [...] motorcyclists also be protected from danger spots? Together with the Vienna University of Technology, AIT road safety experts developed the Motorcycle Probe Vehicle, a road-legal KTM 1290 Super Adventure that
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OPEN LAB DAY at the AIT
Raberger and Bettina Brunnader. We sent out the following press release on the AIT Open LAB DAY today: https://www.ait.ac.at/fileadmin/cmc/downloads/PAs/2024/20240223pressetext-OpenLabDay_FINAL_englisch [...] Safety & Security), the visitors were able to gain their first impressions of everyday research at AIT. The two researchers also spoke very personally about their own career paths, about the great moments