TEAM–a Marie Curie ITN on Infrastructure Management

Transport demand both for passengers and freight continues to grow strongly across Europe. To meet economic growth targets and facilitate further economic integration of the Member States, European transportation needs to cater for a continuing medium term growth in demand. However transport growth using the technologies of today is unsustainable as the tools do not yet exist to allow optimal management of bridge and road portfolios. Recent technical advances offer the potential to significantly change the way that our infrastructure is managed. New technologies and processes are being developed that will deliver more efficient asset management systems. In the past decade there have been significant advances in sensor and processing technologies, leading to tools which are cheap, reliable and offer the potential for new innovative ways to manage infrastructure. TEAM (Training in European Asset Management) is an FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network that seeks to exploit the benefits of these new technologies. The TEAM network consists of 14 PhD researchers working in 7 partner institutes across Europe to develop new tools and processes that will be used by managers to maintain their infrastructural assets in an efficient manner. The project consortium involves university and industry partners, ensuring that the results produced are of interest to engineering practice. New approaches are developed for pavements and bridges and are providing new sources of asset health data; this is combined with new models and algorithms and will produce a step change improvement in condition and safety assessments. Detailed understanding of the processes will allow owners to efficiently manage a portfolio of assets. This will extend safe working lives and reduce costs without compromising safety.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.1143
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812028790
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18770428
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • McNally, Ciaran
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena 2012
  • Location: Athens , Greece
  • Date: 2012-4-23 to 2012-4-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1683-1690
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Bridges; Freight transportation; Infrastructure; Passenger transportation; Pavements; Structural health monitoring
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01488368
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 29 2013 1:45PM