Webinar: Climate Resilient Roads

Online Webinar Online, VA

Topics covered include: Climate Challenges and Impact on Pavements: Dr. Kamil Kaloush; New Nanotechnology for Climate-Resilient Flexible Pavements: Dr. Ajay Ranka; and Design for Next Generation Climate-resilient Pavements: Vivek Kane. A question and answer session will follow the presentations.

Webinar: Pavement Preservation

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Pavement Preservation is a term that is used quite often but what does it really mean? This presentation by Jimmy Kendrick from Bergkamp will provide a clear and concise discussion of the Why, What, and How of Pavement Preservation for Asphalt Pavements.

Webinar: Distracted/Drowsy Driving – Mitigating a Killer

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Whether from smart phones used in conversation or texting to drowsiness brought on by too many hours behind the wheel, inattentive drivers continue to kill at too high a rate. This webinar will discuss one of the scourges of driving: the distracted and/or drowsy driver.

Webinar: The Inclusive and Green Rural Road: Contributions to the SUM4ALL Initiative

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Webinar Overview The Inclusive and Green Rural Road: Contributions to the SUM4ALL Initiative A refreshing new initiative has started: the SUM4ALL – carried by the World Bank and others – to bring about a transformation in the global transport sector: greener, more efficient, safer. What is on the anvil is a new vision on rural...

Webinar: Innovative Financing for Road Safety

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Webinar Overview Innovative Financing for Road Safety Road Traffic Injuries continue to grow, especially in Lower and Middle Income Countries. Effective, proven Engineering, Enforcement and Education countermeasures have been developed and are being used in many of the higher income countries. Why are they not being used in the Lower and Middle Income Countries? Too...

Webinar: Managing Bridge Infrastructure Assets

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This webinar will introduce best practices and state of the art methods for effective bridge maintenance, management and inspection using a variety of representative case studies.

Webinar: Autonomous Drones for Highway Design & Operations

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This IRF webinar will cover industry-specific case studies involving UAS combined with data analytics software. We will deep dive into the technologies (hardware, software) being used, and the beneficial outcomes they have helped unleash.

Webinar: Artificial Intelligence for Road Asset Management

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This webinar will introduce how municipalities, cities, states/regions, and even nations use artificial intelligence to objectively monitor and maintain their roadways in a repeatable and affordable way.

Webinar: Procurement & Contract Management in Highway Projects

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Public procurement can be a leveraged to deliver long term value for money, promote innovation and sustainability in the road sector. Yet, the state of road project preparation, particularly in emerging countries, reflects chronic administrative weaknesses, and underscores insufficient efforts to learn from successful procurement practices.

Webinar: Improving Road Asset Management for Local Roads

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This webinar provides an overview of the process implemented by the DfT, some results of progress that has helped transform this sector, including some examples of the work undertaken by individual Local Authorities, and discusses in detail some lessons learnt and how the underlying road asset management standards and guidance have helped play a role in improving outcomes for UK’s local road networks.

Webinar: AI and Road Safety: Leveraging ITS Video Assets for Vision Zero

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In this this webinar, a panel of ITS and road safety engineering experts will share how dozens of agencies including Los Angeles, Austin, Calgary, and Montreal are transforming their approach to road safety using video analytics powered by artificial intelligence. The key idea underlying the use of video analytics in road safety is that engineers who detect patterns of near-misses can act to prevent fatalities before they occur.

Webinar: Modern Pavement Management Practices for Cities and Counties

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Join nationally recognized pavement expert Magdy Mikhail, PhD, PE, to learn how data-driven asset management practices can help cities and counties get the best performance, longevity, and return on investment from their pavements.

Webinar: Road Funding Policy: Time for New Revenue Collection Systems

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This webinar will include an overview of the motivations for Road User Charging (RUC) in the age of declining revenue sources by explaining how RUC is both a major step toward direct user fees for motorists and an opportunity to examine the linkage to investment decision making, because road charging contains not only revenue data but also direct information about usage of the road network that does not exist in fuel taxation.

Webinar: Cooperative ITS: Getting Ready to Deploy the Next Generation

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This webinar is about how cooperative ITS is creating new opportunities to transport professionals to tackle mobility issues such as road safety, traffic congestion and energy efficiency. Thanks to wireless communication technologies, data exchange between components and actors of the road transport system, very often between vehicles (vehicle-to-vehicle or V2V) or between vehicles and infrastructure (vehicle-to-infrastructure or V2I), generate new sources of valuable and reliable information that can feed new generation of ITS services.

Webinar: Performance-Based Reports for Low Volume Roads

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This webinar features the method and approaches for creating a Performance-Based Report for Low Volume Roads using the available cost-effective Road Survey technology; The Roadroid Smartphone Survey System. In this Webinar, Experts from Road Maintenance and Traffic Management System share their approaches and 20+ years of experience on how to manage the Low Volume Roads focusing on Gravel and Unsealed Roads.

Webinar: Road Safety Audits & Inspections From Concept to Implementation

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This webinar features the method and approaches for creating a Performance-Based Report for Low Volume Roads using the available cost-effective Road Survey technology; The Roadroid Smartphone Survey System. In this Webinar, Experts from Road Maintenance and Traffic Management System share their approaches and 20+ years of experience on how to manage the Low Volume Roads focusing on Gravel and Unsealed Roads.

Webinar: Road Scanning Innovation: Now & Future

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Road scanning tools have significantly improved in the last 20 years with the introduction of advanced technologies like Lasers, Lidars, Accelerometers, and Stereo-Vision. These instruments allowed to speed-up the measuring campaigns and to move from qualitative to quantitative evaluation. Nevertheless, the cost of road mapping is still high, limiting the updates to larger organizations and making these technologies inaccessible to small companies and municipalities. The latest development in the field of autonomous driving (AD) could bring a significant revolution in connection with the developments of vehicle to infrastructure communication (V2I). This webinar will introduce these concepts showing state-of-the-art sensors for AD and how this revolution is already making advanced mapping tools accessible to everyone.

Webinar: Surrogate Safety Methods to Predict Crashes and Diagnose Risk – Research and Practice

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Surrogate indicators are an alternative or a complement to traditional safety analyses based on crash records only. This three-part webinar will deliver a complete overview of the science and applications of surrogate safety in achieving Vision Zero targets. The goal is to assist participants understand the rationale for using different surrogate risk measurements in traffic safety through recent research showing strong crash prediction power of surrogates as well as recent case studies where surrogate risk data influenced real-world engineering projects.

Webinar: The Impact and trends of COVID-19 on connected, autonomous vehicles

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Automotive OEMs and many mobility players have been some of the hardest hit in the automotive world due to COVID-19. This could lead to a direct long-term impact on the autonomous vehicle industry too due to the macroeconomic trends, changing consumer behaviour and regulatory developments. On one hand we see players such as Waymo, Pony.AI, Cruise suspending services and testing activities, on the other hand there are players such as Nuro that have started using its self-driving vehicles to deliver prescriptions to pharmacies. This webinar will talk about such use cases, and our analysis of how the global autonomous and connected vehicle market will evolve in the coming, post-COVID, years.

Webinar: Management Practices for Safer Roads

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Road traffic injuries claim 1.35 million lives each year with a disproportionate impact on health and development. They are the ninth leading cause of death across all age groups globally and the leading cause among young people aged between 15 and 29 years, costing governments approximately 3% of GDP and 5% in low- and middle-income countries.

Webinar: Next Generation Traffic Management & Analytics

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Mobility services are undergoing spectacular changes with the introduction and widespread use of cloud communication and connected vehicle technology. Incremental interventions on the physical and digital road networks are required to allow traffic control systems to cope with mixed vehicular traffic and optimize traffic guidance functions. This webinar will present the current state of the art in responsive and fully adaptive traffic management solutions, as well as opportunities to leverage the vast amounts of data captured by sophisticated traffic management systems