This project received funding from the
European Union Horizon 2020 research
And innovation programme under grant
Agreement n ° 640213

• Introduction
• Academic competition research areas 2016
• Competition rules
• Competition schedule
• Evaluation criteria
• Prizes and awards
• Further information
• Project consortium members
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2016 is aimed at university and technical institutes students pursuing bachelor degrees and higher.
The competition presents an opportunity for students to showcase their work in an international stage at the 7 th European
Transport Research Conference between the
18 th and 21 th of April 2016 in Warsaw, Poland.
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Academic Competition Pillars
A. Road
• Highways
• Urban and rural roads
• Passenger and freight transport
• Cycling
• Pedestrian
B. Rail
• High-speed
• Passenger and freight railways
• Urban and light rail systems
C. Waterborne
• Maritime
• In-land waterborne
• Short sea shipping
• Deep sea shipping
• Passenger transport and cruises
• Floating infrastructures and support vessels
• Container shipping
• Dredging
D. Cross-modality
• Co-modality
• Inter-modality
• Combined transport
• Interfaces
• Intermodal terminals
• Integrated infrastructures
• Public transport
• Airports

Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
Research topics/ Areas
• RA1: Environment – Decarbonisation, Sustainability and Energy
Efficiency
• RA2: Vehicles & Vessels Technologies, Design and Production
• RA3: Urban and Long-Distance People Mobility – Systems and
Services
• RA4: Freight Transport and Logistics
• RA5: Safe, Secure and Resilient Transport Systems
• RA6: Transport Infrastructures
• RA7: Human Factors, Socio-Economics and Foresights
• RA8: Automation and Connectivity
• RA9: Enabling Environment for Innovation Implementation
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Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
• Electromobility,
• Greenhouse gas and pollutant emission,
• Alternative fuels
• Optimisation of energy use
• Alternative drive train concepts,
• Drag reduction
• Noise, vibration and harshness
• Electromagnetic compatibility
• Thermal management
• Life cycle analysis
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Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
RA2: Vehicles & Vessels Technologies, Design and
Production
• Cars, trucks, buses (vehicle segments M1-M3, N1-N3)
• Off-highway-vehicles (Farming, Mining, Construction)
• Bicycles, powered 2 wheelers
• Trains,
• Ships, on-board equipment,
• Lightweight design, technologies and materials
• Innovative design and construction methods
• Prototyping
• Cost effective design and production
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Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
RA3: Urban and Long-Distance People
Mobility Systems and Services
• Comprehensive municipal transport concepts
• Intermodal Mobility
• Congestion management
• Ride-sharing (e.g. car-sharing, bike-sharing)
• New mobility services
• Field operation tests
• Traffic simulation
• Traffic managements systems
• Input Rail, Waterborne

Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
RA4: Freight Transport and Logistics
• Transport hubs
• Congestion management
• Field operation tests
• Distribution management and transport planning
• Intermodal transport systems
• Delivery services
• Input rail, waterborne
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Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
RA5: Safe, Secure and Resilient Transport Systems
• Accident mitigation,
• User and passenger safety
• ITS solutions,
• Health and biomechanics,
• Crashworthiness,
• Fire performance and blast resistance,
• Failure investigation,
• Security and crisis management,
• Risk management,
• Resilience
• Data management and security/ Rules and rights for data management
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Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
RA6: Transport Infrastructures
• Roads, tunnels, bridges, pavements, rivers, canals, ferries
• Railtracks
• Stations,
• Seaports & marinas
• Offshore platforms
• Canals, locks
• Geotechnics
• Energy infrastructures
• Charging infrastructure and smart grids
• New materials and technologies
• Asset management sensing and monitoring

Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
RA7: Human Factors, Socio-Economics and
Foresights
• Future mobility perspectives
• Methods for future research
• Customer segments and profiles
• Macroeconomic factors
• Socio-demographic behavior
• HMI- Design
• Ergonomics of transport system
• Regulatory environment
• Customer technology perception

Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
RA8: Automation and Connectivity
• On-board ICT, vehicle/vessel-to-driver (V2D)
• Vehicle/vessel -to- vehicle/vessel (V2V)
• Vehicle/vessel -to-infrastructure (V2I) communication
• Cloud infrastructure and mobile networks
• Telematics and Information Systems
• Advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS) function and technologies
• Autonomous driving/sailing systems
• Input rail, waterborne
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Academic Competition
Research Areas 2016
RA9: Enabling Environment for
Innovation Implementation
• Innovation process
• Industrial cooperation
• New investment models
• Technical harmonisation
• Industrial property rights
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Evaluation Criteria
Scientific Merit (60%)
Research must:
 emphasize on novelty, or at least an innovative application of existing knowledge
 address an important problem
 advance scientific knowledge by the completion of this project
 be appropriate to the research field being investigated
 have conceptual framework, design, methods, and analyses adequately developed, well-integrated, and appropriate to the aims of the project
 acknowledge potential problem areas and consider alternatives
 have adequate scientific support for the project
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Evaluation Criteria
Impact (20%)
Research must:
 show adequate relevance to the transport industry
 provide support that it is applicable within the industry
 be appropriate to the current (or future) trends within the industry
 propose how it could be incorporated into the system, if not already present
 not be out-dated
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Evaluation Criteria
Presentation (20%)
Submissions must:
 clearly state the primary theme or purpose
 contain properly sequenced ideas
 have depth of communications appropriate to the audience
 include words and terms appropriate to the audience
 not exceed the length appropriate to the competition
 follow punctuation, spelling and formatting conventions
 observe correct grammar in the written text
 secure the audience’s attention at the beginning
 use visual aids and produce a presentation of up to 10 slides with pictures
 use the correct level of formality
Additionally submitted supporting video is to be evaluated as a plus.
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The awards and prizes of the top 3 winners will be announced during the
VISIONS TRA 2016 award ceremony which will take place during the prestigious high level event of Transport Research Arena
(TRA 2016) which will be organized in
Warsaw during April 2016.
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Further Information
For further information, please visit http://www.travisions.eu
where you will have access to all the template documents and you will be able to register online your idea for the competition.
Alternatively you can contact Mr. George Smyrnakis george.smyrnakis@ncl.ac.uk
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Partners:
WEGEMT
BALance Technology Consulting GmbH
University College of London
Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge, RWTH Aachen University
Newcastle University
Politecnico di Torino
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