Fugro Participates In Landmark European Road Research
Posted: 2015-5-17
The global survey specialist is part of a consortium undertaking seminal
research into high-speed surveys after successfully bidding under the CEDR
Transnational Road Research Programme: Call 2013.
Fugro experts are working on the ground penetrating radar (GPR) component
of the TRL-led project HiSPEQ (High-speed survey specifications,
explanation and quality). This was among three research proposals selected
under ‘Ageing Infrastructure Management’, one of five themes forming the
CEDR Call 2013.
HiSPEQ was the winning bid in the specific research area of ‘High speed
non-destructive condition assessment of road pavements and interacting
assets’. Other partners in the project are AIT (Austria), VTI (Sweden), ZAG
(Slovenia) and COWI (Denmark).
The Ageing Infrastructure Management package includes projects in two
other research areas: ‘Understanding risk factors in managing ageing
infrastructure’ and ‘Common cost breakdown framework for road assets’.
The 3-year, €1.3m programme is being funded by Denmark, Germany,
Ireland, Netherlands, UK and Slovenia, and being managed on behalf of
CEDR by the National Roads Authority in Ireland.
HiSPEQ aims to deliver improvements to the process of describing high-
speed survey equipment, specifying the requirement for surveys/survey
equipment, and the regimes that should be applied to ensure the quality of
data delivered. It will also improve the ability to obtain good value from the
measured data by making use of the best derived parameters to assess
condition within asset management systems.
The project is drawing on stakeholder consultation, current best practice and
the extensive experience of consortium members in developing and
delivering high-speed surveys, survey equipment and survey specifications.
It will also identify the data that can be collected on road networks to
measure surface condition, structural condition and road structure at high
speed and the type of equipment that can be used to collect these data.
Fugro is responsible for researching the use and application of GPR,
including its role in maximising value from other data streams, notably Traffic
Speed Deflectometer (TSD), as well as for the overall evaluation of road
condition, deterioration, residual life and asset maintenance planning.
Transport experts from Fugro offices in Cambridge (UK) are already
underway with initial research into current practice and technology for GPR
collection and use across the European road network.
A key focus of HiSPEQ will be the delivery of outputs that can be
implemented by road administrations via interactive guidance and templates
that can be taken forward by individual road administrations to form the
basis for developing strategies and specifications for their own network
surveys. Updates on the research will be made available at
http://hispeq.com.
The programme is due to run until April 2016.
research into high-speed surveys after successfully bidding under the CEDR
Transnational Road Research Programme: Call 2013.
Fugro experts are working on the ground penetrating radar (GPR) component
of the TRL-led project HiSPEQ (High-speed survey specifications,
explanation and quality). This was among three research proposals selected
under ‘Ageing Infrastructure Management’, one of five themes forming the
CEDR Call 2013.
HiSPEQ was the winning bid in the specific research area of ‘High speed
non-destructive condition assessment of road pavements and interacting
assets’. Other partners in the project are AIT (Austria), VTI (Sweden), ZAG
(Slovenia) and COWI (Denmark).
The Ageing Infrastructure Management package includes projects in two
other research areas: ‘Understanding risk factors in managing ageing
infrastructure’ and ‘Common cost breakdown framework for road assets’.
The 3-year, €1.3m programme is being funded by Denmark, Germany,
Ireland, Netherlands, UK and Slovenia, and being managed on behalf of
CEDR by the National Roads Authority in Ireland.
HiSPEQ aims to deliver improvements to the process of describing high-
speed survey equipment, specifying the requirement for surveys/survey
equipment, and the regimes that should be applied to ensure the quality of
data delivered. It will also improve the ability to obtain good value from the
measured data by making use of the best derived parameters to assess
condition within asset management systems.
The project is drawing on stakeholder consultation, current best practice and
the extensive experience of consortium members in developing and
delivering high-speed surveys, survey equipment and survey specifications.
It will also identify the data that can be collected on road networks to
measure surface condition, structural condition and road structure at high
speed and the type of equipment that can be used to collect these data.
Fugro is responsible for researching the use and application of GPR,
including its role in maximising value from other data streams, notably Traffic
Speed Deflectometer (TSD), as well as for the overall evaluation of road
condition, deterioration, residual life and asset maintenance planning.
Transport experts from Fugro offices in Cambridge (UK) are already
underway with initial research into current practice and technology for GPR
collection and use across the European road network.
A key focus of HiSPEQ will be the delivery of outputs that can be
implemented by road administrations via interactive guidance and templates
that can be taken forward by individual road administrations to form the
basis for developing strategies and specifications for their own network
surveys. Updates on the research will be made available at
http://hispeq.com.
The programme is due to run until April 2016.
