The Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructures European Training Network (SMARTI ETN), will bring together a stimulating platform where key stakeholders of the transport infrastructure sector will work alongside world-wide experts in smartening of systems (developers of high-tech sensors, advanced monitoring equipment, automated structures, etc.,) with direct suppor
t from the roads, railways and airports managers. This environment will enable talented graduates to conceive the transport infrastructure network of the future and will provide them with world-wide extended and globally-leading training in each of the four pillars supporting the SMARTI vision:
• designed by using improved decision frameworks aimed at improving durability, maximising recycling and minimizing environmental, economic and social impacts
• conceived not for transport purposes only but also towards optimization of land use by adding energy harvesting capabilities
• equipped with low-cost, wireless sensors to allow pro-active communication aiming for a more intuitive use and a simplified management
• conceived to self-repair and be adaptable to changes due to natural and anthropogenic hazards
This unique consortium of excellence will be driving the researchers into 15 individual research projects (IRPs) clustered in two highly linked and multidisciplinary Work Packages (WP2, WP3) consisting in training-through-research paths, leading to the formation of a new generation of academy industry-ready graduate, in the “development of Prototype of infrastructure’s components” and in the redaction of “Guidelines for the SMARtening of design, construction and management practices for Road, Railways and Airports Infrastructure” written with collaborations among the fellows and stakeholders and that will be disseminated in Europe and beyond. Our network of public and private sector partners provide outstanding expertise and state-of the-art facilities, and complement each other, bringing together the necessary scientific and professional power needed to provide high quality training and cutting edge research in the field of smartening of transport infrastructures.
