The Young Researchers Seminar will be held on 8-10 June 2011, at the Danish Technical University, in Copenhagen (Denmark). The common vision for the Seminar is the preparation of a new generation of transport scientists and science based professionals in the area of transport. Five domains have been chosen for the submission of abstracts: 1. Transport economics, policy and transport behaviour, 2. Transport sustainability and environment, 3. Transport safety,  4. Intelligent transport systems (ITS), and 5. Transport Civil and Road Engineering. Rail and traffic will also be considered and abstracts are welcomed. The deadline for submission of abstracts and nomination of tutors is November 26, 2010. For more information: YRS2011 Letter (.pdf), More About YRS11.

On 13 October 2010, the third European Road Safety Day took place at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. FEHRL president, Mr. Joris Al, was part of the panel during the third and final session on safety of road infrastructure. Mr. Al’s presentation, “Contribution to Road Safety by Infrastructure” highlighted the need for knowledge transfer and the role FEHRL can play in this transfer. He further presented slides on the Pilot4Safety and Forever Open Road projects. More...

A PILOT4SAFETY newsletter will be published and released tri-yearly to provide the latest project news, happenings, events, and results. The first issue of the PILOT4SAFETY newsletter is available for download here.

1 October 2010 - Road authorities were interested in a common way of estimating and prioritizing mitigation efforts/measures to identify and prevent problems with road infrastructure, caused by climate change. The European projects SWAMP, RIMAROCC, P2R2C2, and IRWIN were commissioned to do just that. The principal focus of these projects were on evaluating the impact of climate change on road infrastructure, determining methods for calculating costs and benefits of adaptation measures, and risk management. The results will be presented at the ERA-NET ROAD Conference in early December 2010.

"Redefining Highway Transport" - The 1st Newsletter (.pdf) presents the project developments, structure, real-life technology trials, and introduces the Forever Open Road (FOR)  Champions. An initiative of FEHRL, the FOR concept will bring together existing, innovative technologies and systems from across Europe to develop and share the practical and tested solutions to the needs of road infrastructure network management. This editions Technology Trials: Rejuvenating and Induction Healing of Porous Asphalt, Noise Reducing Road Pavements, Sensor Technique for Continuous and Durable Temperature Measurements, and Geothermal Energy Supply to Prevent Icing.