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TRA2014

TRA VISIONS: TWO TRANSPORT RESEARCH
AWARDS IN ONE FOR TRA2014
PARTNERS

The 18-month FP7 TRA Visions project, which runs until
the end of October 2014, successfully organised the
following two competitions for transport research
awards, which were announced in two separate sessions at TRA2014:
A research student competition which nurtured
the best transport researchers in Europe and
celebrated their achievements at TRA2014. The
awards were given out at the end of the Opening
Session on the first day of TRA2014.
The EU Champions of Transport Research
competition for senior researchers in the field of
innovative surface transport concepts based on
results only from EU-funded projects. The
awards were given out at as part of Strategic
Session 13 on “Horizon 2020: Innovating
Mobility, Mobilising Innovation”.

STUDENT COMPETITION

ROAD

The student competition aimed at university and technical institute students pursuing bachelor degrees and
TITLE
Metamaterials for vibro-acoustic
isolation
Wheeled Mobile Driving Simulator for
Urban Traffic Simulation
Stochastic optimization of advance
traffic signal control
Self prestressed concrete

higher. Initially, participants were invited to submit
an abstract under one of the TRA2014 conference
topics: Environment and Energy, Industry Competitiveness, Safety and Security, Logistics and Mobility
Systems and Services, Transport Policy Research/
Socio-economic/Human sciences, Transport Infrastructures and Vehicles & Vessels Technologies.
All participants were invited to register their ideas
and submit a Title and a short abstract by January
2014. They also had until the end of January to
develop and submit their idea, which was meant to
be a report based on the Final Project Template
accompanied by any supporting documents. This
was followed by an Evaluation of Ideas period during
which a judging panel determined which were the top
three ideas per mode.
Some 104 students participated, submitting a total
of 51 st Ց