16 partners
7 european countries
5 demonstration cases

A3

Virtual demo - Porto, Portugal

A-2

Guadalajara, Spain

A-92

Seville, Spain

A-7

Valencia, Spain

A1

Florence-Bologna, Italy

As a highly technology-focused project, OMICRON needed to ensure that its solutions are ready to be deployed in real-life situations. Thus the project tested each technology separately, as well as multiple solutions and the final Intelligent Road Management Platform altogether.

OMICRON executed five demonstrations. The first was a virtual technical demonstrator for the smart construction of bridge overpasses. Three of the demonstrations took place on different motorways in Spain. Last but not least, the final demonstrator tested multiple OMICRON technologies on the A1 motorway between Florence and Bologna in Italy.

With this demonstration methodology, the project ensured its technologies are ready to be deployed in operational environments anywhere across the European motorway network.

1. Virtual demonstration: smart construction of bridge overpasses

This virtual demonstration was performed with a digital representation of real-life bridge construction, with all its physical and functional characteristics. An already-existing bridge was monitored to understand its behaviour (A3, Maia/Santo Tirso’s branch, Porto, Portugal). Using this information a new bridge was designed, applying the OMICRON technologies, and it was tested in-lab with scaled models. The demonstration developed a solution for the widening of a similar bridge over the A3 in Portugal (Overpass 038, A3, Santo Tirso Interchange).

Output

Validated methodology and detailed BIM model of the new solution (TRL 5).

2. Technical demonstrator: A-2 Guadalajara, Spain

The A-2 is a motorway starting from the northeast of Madrid, that has high volumes of traffic every day. This made an ideal site to demonstrate the V2X communication technologies and the inspection vehicle. This demonstrator served as a final test of the integration of the inspection vehicle technologies and the V2X communications, which ensured appropriate replicability in the final demonstrator. Furthermore, the data captured here helped to train the Artificial Intelligence technologies needed to compute specific road parameters.

Output

Integration of inspection and related digital technologies for final demonstrator (TRL 7).

3. Technical demonstrator: A-92 Seville, Spain

This demonstrator tested the pavement treatment, extension and compaction technologies that were developed in OMICRON to support road pavement interventions. As part of the Mediterranean corridor, the A-92 highway in Spain was ideal for checking the influence of weather conditions and locally available materials on the performance of replaced pavement. This validation provided an opportunity to observe construction from start to finish and gain useful insights for further applications.

Output

Improved intervention times and execution quality for the final demonstrator (TRL 7).

4. Technical demonstrator: A-7 Valencia, Spain

The demonstrator tested the surface pavement layer crack sealing technologies that are part of the Modular Robotic Platform developed in OMICRON. This took place on the A-7 highway (Mediterranean corridor), in particular along the belt surrounding the first crown of Valencia’s metropolitan area. This section has considerable volumes of daily traffic, including more than 20,000 trucks every day, thus heavy stresses producing many cracks.

Output

Improved intervention times and execution quality for the final demonstrator (TRL 7).

Final demonstrator: A1 Florence-Bologna, Italy

The final demonstrator was performed in the section of the A1 between Florence and Bologna in Italy, as part of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor. This tested OMICRON’s Intelligent Platform including most of the technologies and digital developments, using information coming from previous demonstrators. The A1 is operated by Autostrade per l’Italia and includes bridges, tunnels and all the necessary sites for testing the portfolio of OMICRON solutions under real road conditions. 

Output

Final results from OMICRON’s Intelligent Platform to be evaluated and compared to the expected impact of the project (TRL 7).