SAFERUP — Sustainable, Accessible, Safe, Resilient and Smart Urban Pavements

Results in brief

Sustainable, Accessible, Safe, Resilient and Smart Urban Pavements

Urban pavements comprise almost 40% of European cities and are the main means by which people travel every day. Urban pavements must accommodate all users in the most efficient, safe, sustainable and smart way. A key factor to increase the liveability of tomorrow’s Smart cities will be transforming the way urban pavements are perceived, designed, built, maintained and function. SAFERUP! aimed to provide cities with innovative solutions that will form the future urban paved environment, by training talented researchers in the fields of: smart, recycled and durable paving materials; provision for vulnerable users (e.g. elderly & disabled) accessibility and protection; studying user behaviour; life cycle analysis; wash-off water management and bioremediation; tempered and acoustic pavements; energy harvesting and self-sensing technologies. The SAFERUP! Consortium believes in this future and has created a unique team of world leading commercial and academic research engineers and scientists, with the diverse range of expertise needed to develop the novel solutions required to deliver this future and its anticipated benefits. Fifteen ESRs undertook their PhDs in a research and training programme designed to optimise their multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral experience through secondments and a variety of SAFERUP!-wide fora. All ESRs’ projects were interrelated and considerable synergies, trans-project contributions and collaborations occurred, despite the world pandemic. SAFERUP! aimed to provide the European community with innovative solutions that will form the urban paved environment of the future. Footpaths, bike lanes, roads, intersections, squares and all other walkable surfaces that we all use every day will be designed, constructed and managed to meet context-sensitive criteria including not only safety, mobility and costs (construction and maintenance), but also sustainability, environmental impacts, accessibility, aesthetics, circular economy and local economy preservation. The ultimate objective of SAFERUP! was to train new professionals able to provide future generations with more liveable cities by applying solutions developed through cutting-edge research.

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Project objective

Urban pavements comprise almost 40% of European cities and are the main means by which people travel every day. Urban pavements must accommodate all users in the most efficient, safe, sustainable and smart way. A key factor to increase the liveability of tomorrow’s Smart cities will be transforming the way urban pavements are perceived, designed, built, maintained and function. SAFERUP! aims to provide cities with innovative solutions that will form the future urban paved environment, by training talented researchers in the fields of: smart, recycled and durable paving materials; provision for vulnerable users (e.g. elderly & disabled) accessibility and protection; studying user behaviour; life cycle analysis; wash-off water management and bioremediation; tempered and acoustic pavements; energy harvesting and self-sensing technologies. The SAFERUP! Consortium believes in this future and has created a unique team of world leading commercial and academic research engineers and scientists, with the diverse range of expertise needed to develop the novel solutions required to deliver this future and its anticipated benefits. Fifteen ESRs will undertake their PhDs in a research and training programme designed to optimise their multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral experience through secondments and a variety of SAFERUP!-wide fora. All ESRs’ projects are interrelated and considerable synergies, trans-project contributions and collaborations will occur. A key focus of the training will be career planning, entrepreneurship and skills development in particular communication. SAFERUP! participants with communication expertise will develop the communication and dissemination strategy to maximise the exploitation of the developed solutions. SAFERUP! will create a new generation of professionals with multidisciplinary expertise in urban pavements and allied fields appealing to employers, who will expand the social benefits of the new urban pavements well beyond the end of SAFERUP!

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · BolognaCoordinatorItaly
CELU EKSPERTS · IkskileLatvia
CORECOM SRL · Stroncone (Terni)Italy
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY · CoventryUnited Kingdom
Claret Consulting · TallinnEstonia
DURTH ROOS CONSULTING GMBH · DarmstadtGermany
EUROPEAN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE (ESCI) GGMBH · OldenburgGermany
FH MUNSTER UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES · MUNSTERGermany
FUNDACION ONCE PARA LA COOPERACIONE INCLUSION SOCIAL DE PERSONAS CONDISCAPACIDAD · MadridSpain
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION · DONOSTIA/SAN SEBASTIANSpain
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · AmesUnited States
MOEVE SA · MADRIDSpain
MUELLER-BBM Industry Solutions GMBH · PlaneggGermany
RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE · RigaLatvia
RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB · BorasSweden
SOCIETA' AZIONARIA PRODOTTI ASFALTICO BITUMINOSI AFFINI - S.A.P.A.B.A. S.P.A. · Sasso MarconiItaly
Svensk Däckåtervinning AB (svb) · VaxholmSweden
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · WienAustria
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · NottinghamUnited Kingdom
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM · AUSTINApproximate locationUnknown Region
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM · AUSTINApproximate locationUnknown Region
UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA · SANTANDERSpain
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA · PerugiaItaly
UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK · InnsbruckAustria
UNIVERSITAET KASSEL · KasselGermany
UNIVERSITE GUSTAVE EIFFEL · MARNE-LA-VALLEEFrance
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · LondonUnited Kingdom
UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER · LANCASTERUnited Kingdom
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES · SydneyAustralia
Wuhan University of Technology · WuhanChina

SAFERUP · Sustainable, Accessible, Safe, Resilient and Smart Urban Pavements

Results in brief

Sustainable, Accessible, Safe, Resilient and Smart Urban Pavements

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