REFINET - Transport & Infrastructure technology & innovation clustering tool

03 Apr 2018

Proceedings of 7th Transport Research Arena TRA 2018, April 16-19, 2018, Vienna, Austria

In the framework of the REFINET Coordination and Support Action, in order to maximize the exploitation of the various project outcomes, a Transport Infrastructures (TIs) technology platform – the TI-TechMapper - has been developed. The platform is a unique instrument that makes use of all data collected within the project (e.g. the catalogue of best practices in design, operation and maintenance) and presents them in a dynamic format that can be used to provide a support in analysis, decisions, planning to various stakeholders in TIs.

Indeed the aim of the platform is to:

• provide an easy-to-use decision support instrument to the different stakeholders in accessing classified and clustered information (e.g. technologies, best practices) that are applicable to TIs
• visualize the aforementioned data in interactive maps/layers, featuring the possibility to combine different information related to different aspects (e.g. technological)
• allow search, query and analysis so that to identify which data (e.g. best practice) is more applicable, according to predefined criteria, to the purpose of the investigation, for the selected asset, with specific boundaries (e.g. KPIs).

The paper provides a synthetic but comprehensive description of the main functionalities of the platform, together with the description of two typical usage scenarios for European TIs stakeholders.

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