2018 Young Researcher Competition

In the TRAVISIONS 2018 YOUNG RESEARCHER COMPETITION, a total of 122 ideas were submitted.
76 of which were admitted to the competition, 5 were declared ineligible (since outside of the EU) and the remaining were declared incomplete.
The 169 participating young researchers were from 19 different EU countries and 48 different universities.

Young researchers per country

The table shows the number of young researchers that participated per country. Young researchers were able to join the competition as individuals or as teams of up to 7 students.

Young researcher ideas per mode

A total of 54 (of which 32 were admitted to the competition, 19 were abstracts and 3 were not eligible) road related ideas were submitted, 24 rail ideas (of which 18 were admitted to the competition and 6 were abstracts), 24 waterborne ideas (of which 16 were admitted to the competition and 8 were abstracts) and 20 cross modal ideas (of which 10 were admitted to the competition, 8 were abstracts and 2 were not eligible).

Road

FINAL 32
ABSTRACTS 19
TOTAL PROJECT 51

Rail

FINAL 18
ABSTRACTS 6
TOTAL PROJECT 24

Waterborne

FINAL 16
ABSTRACTS 8
TOTAL PROJECT 24

Cross-modality

FINAL 10
ABSTRACTS 8
TOTAL PROJECT 18

Young researcher ideas per Research Area

The table shows the number of young researchers ideas per Research Area. The most popular Research Areas were RA2 “Vehicles & Vessels Design, Development and Production” and RA5 “People Mobility – Systems and Services” with 21 ideas, RA7 “Transport Infrastructure“ with 19 ideas and RA1 “Environment and Energy Efficiency” with 13 ideas.

Universities per country

The table shows the number of universities that participated in the young researcher competition per country.
The figure also demonstrates the number of participating universities per country in percentage terms.

Number of young researchers per university

Finally, this table shows the number of participating young researchers per university. Politecnico di Torino from Italy had the most young researchers participating while the University College London and Newcastle University came second and third.

2018 Senior Researcher Competition

The TRAVISIONS 2018 Senior Researcher Competition received 121 entries. Only 43 were longlisted.
The entries were from 91 different organisations/companies.
The following charts contain some statistical information regarding all the seniors’ entries.

Entries per country

The table shows the number of entries submitted from each country. Austria was the largest contributor with the total of 22 eligible submissions, UK and Germany came second and third with 156 and 14 entries each.

The chart shows the number of entries submitted per country in percentage terms.

Entries per mode

A total of 60 road related entries (of which 16 were longlisted), 25 rail related entries (of which 13 were longlisted), 13 waterborne related entries (of which 6 were longlisted) and 23 cross modal related entries (of which 8 were longlisted) were submitted for the senior researcher competition.

Road

TOTAL ENTRIES
60

Rail

TOTAL ENTRIES
25

Waterborne

TOTAL ENTRIES
13

Cross-modality

TOTAL ENTRIES
23

Entries per Research Area

The table below shows the number of entries per Research Area. The most popular Research Areas were RA7 “Transport Infrastructure“ with 19 research projects and RA1 “Environment and Energy Efficiency” with 18 research projects.

Organisations per country

The table shows the number of universities, research institutes or companies that participated in the senior researcher competition per country.

This chart shows of universities, research institutes or companies that participated in the senior research competition per country in percentage terms.