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ÖGUS Symposium: Environmental Simulation Testing of Batteries
This year's ÖGUS Symposium on “Environmental Simulation Testing of Batteries” will take place on September 11, 2025, at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna. The event will focus on cur
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HoSMoS presented as Copernicus use case
The HoSMoS project (Flood Protection Monitoring via Satellites), led by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, was presented on the website of the European Copernicus program as a best practice ex
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HoSMoS: Satellite technology for sustainable flood protection
Climate change and the associated heavy rainfall events are increasing the risk of flooding in urban areas, as the most recent flood in September 2024 impressively demonstrated. In view of these chal
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ÖAMTC podcast “Was uns bewegt”: AIT expert Anna Huditz on sustainable transport infrastructure and road safety
A future-proof transport infrastructure is crucial for sustainable mobility and safe traffic routes. In episode 81 of the ÖAMTC podcast “Was uns bewegt” (What moves us), AIT expert Anna Huditz highli
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Transport Research Arena 2024
Join us at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) in Dublin/Ireland until Thursday, April 18th! AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is a co-exhibitor at the stand of the Advantage Austria/Wirtschafts
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Concreting under traffic for efficient bridge rehabilitation
The COUNT (Concreting under traffic) project, funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), supports the ambitious goal of preserving the considerable existing stock of transportation infra
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How can the transport infrastructure be made fit for the coming decades?
Climate change and ageing processes are putting Austria's road network under increasing pressure - renovation and predictive maintenance are more important than ever. High-resolution satellite data,
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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
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AIT at Noise Awareness Day
On 24 April 2019, the international day against noise, the Institute for Sound Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences hosted a day of action. Under this year's motto ‘Sound arm sharpens hear
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Successful bridge monitoring with innovative fiber optic measurement technology
AIT's structural dynamics team recently successfully completed a pioneering research project on monitoring a highway bridge using distributed fiber optic measurement technology. On behalf of ASF
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Extending the lifespan of bridges: Alois Vorwagner interviewed by the "Presse" newspaper
The ravages of time are affecting Europe's road bridges. As part of the REAL LAST project, however, a method has now been developed to extend the remaining service life of the supporting structures.
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Form Finding Structures for Optimizing the Distribution of Forces
Structures with optimized force distributions reduce the material expenditure for the fulfilment of structure and thus conserve our resources. Form Finding Structures, which transfer the acting force
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U2xU5 Line Interchange – An Added Value for Vienna
The U2xU5 underground construction site marks the start of the most important public transport project in Vienna since the groundbreaking ceremony for the U1 fifty years ago. Two underground projects
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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
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Optimally Exploiting the Life Cycle of Railroad Bridges
The DEEB-INFRA research project (Data-based Extrapolation Model for Determining Real Operating Load Trains for Residual Life Analysis of Railway Infrastructure Facilities) was recently launched: Over
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Pure tension! Two bridges in the heart of the new A5 motorway north of Vienna
At the end of 2017, ASFINAG erected two new bridges in the immediate vicinity of the north part of Vienna, which generated tension in different ways. The “Satzengrabenbrücke” is designed as an integr
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Risikobasiertes Anlagen-Management und Potential von Ultrahochfestem Beton im Bahnbrückenbau
Die Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB verwalten ein bemerkenswertes Infrastruktursystem mit über 6000 Brücken, mehr als 17.000 Stützmauern sowie über 400 Tunneln. Allein diese Bauwerke repräsentieren e
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Angewandte Baudynamik und Erdbeben
Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Rainer Flesch, langjähriger Partner des AIT Center for Low-Emission Transport, hält seine jährliche Vorlesung „Angewandte Baudynamik und Erdbeben“ an der TU Graz heuer aufgrund der
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Online public voting for the VCÖ Mobility Award 2020 has started
385 projects, research papers, concepts and ideas were submitted to the VCÖ Mobility Award 2020, this year's motto of which is "Getting traffic on a climate course". The 60-member jury of exper
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Dynamic measurements on Austria's oldest railway bridge
The Hammelbach Bridge, which crosses the Bernhardstaler Teich in three arches, is regarded as the oldest railway bridge in Austria. It was put into operation in 1839 as part of the northern railway l