The European Union PAVE-SCAN project aims to build European GNSS-based and AI-driven technologies to detect and assess roadway pavement problems.
<p>The proposed project aims for the development to market (TRL8-9) of European GNSS-based integrated low-cost sensor technologies and artificial-intelligence-driven open-architecture software solution — machine learning (ML) and machine vision (MV) — for the detection, classification and georeferencing of roadway pavement surface anomalies, and for the low-cost assessment of roadway pavements using participatory sensing. </p> <p>The proposed system is of practical importance because it provides continuous information about roadway pavement surface anomalies — valuable for efficiently monitoring the transport infrastructure and for public safety. The vision for roadway condition assessment using smartphone-like technology is under the hypothesis that such technology can be used for crowd-sourced data collection and analysis in GIS-based pavement management systems (PMS).</p> <p>“The developed technology and related transport informatics are disruptive technologies that have the potential to reshape the transport and infrastructure industries,” according to the project description.</p> <p>The project is funded under Horizon Europe; with the University of Cyprus <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ucy.ac.cy/cee/?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering</a> serving as a partner.</p> <p>The project’s objectives are outlined below.</p> <h6 class="wp-block-heading">Table 1. Project objectives</h6> <div class="wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:100%"> <div class="wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fe9cc265 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:100%"> <figure class="table-responsive"><table class="table " class="has-fixed-layout"><thead><tr><th class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">#</th><th class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Project Objective</th><th class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">1</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Near-real-time analysis and classification of roadway anomalies</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP3,WP4,WP5</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">2</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Geospatial mapping of transport infrastructure, roadway anomalies and condition-assessment heatmaps</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP3,WP4,WP5</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">3</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Geospatial mapping of transport infrastructure, roadway anomalies and condition-assessment heatmaps</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP3,WP4,WP5</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">4</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Improved roadway management practices, prioritisation of public works & lower costs</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP4</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">5</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Reduction in the transport-related environmental footprint through improved O&M of transport infrastructure and of mass transit</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP4,WP6,WP7</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">6</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Reduction in roadway-assessment costs by utilization of a fleet of vehicles/buses as participatory sensors</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP5,WP6,WP7</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">7</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Integration with national transport initiatives (e.g., National Single Access Point), & with Digital Twin platforms, for dynamically updated roadway-condition models, and improvements in transport safety through roadway improvements</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP4, WP5</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">8</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Open-access data and APIs</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP1, WP8</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">9</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Product to market and ‘Product as a Service’ (PaaS) business model</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP8</td></tr><tr><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">10</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Dissemination of project results</td><td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">WP1</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p><p>The post <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gpsworld.com/european-pave-scan-project-aims-to-increase-transport-efficiency-safety/">European PAVE-SCAN project aims to increase transport efficiency, safety</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gpsworld.com">GPS World</a>.</p></p>
