TRA VISIONS 2024 RESULTS

The TRA VISIONS 2024 Young Researchers Competition targets students at universities and technical institutes pursuing bachelor and higher degrees, as well as early career PhD researchers.

Initially, participants are invited to submit an abstract under one of the TRA conference Topics (Call for Ideas). This is the registration period where all the participants are invited to register their ideas and submit a title and a short abstract of their ideas. The participants then usually have a three-month period to further develop their proposals into a final project following a very clear template (Submission of Ideas). This is normally followed by an Evaluation of Ideas period, divided into two steps- a first remote evaluation by two evaluators and a second step in which the shortlisted ideas (10 per mode) are evaluated by a judging panel during the Shortlisting Event in which the three top ideas per mode (road, rail, waterborne and cross modality) are identified. The winner certificates and the prizes are awarded at the TRA conference during a prestigious award ceremony.

The TRA VISIONS Consortium works closely with the organisers of the TRA conference in order to ensure that the competitions have maximum exposure and impact during the conference and beyond. To ensure the active and large participation of students and early stage researchers, an extensive and well planned promotion phase is carried out.

DOWNLOAD TRA VISIONS 2024 CONTEST BOOK

The TRA VISIONS 2024 winners were awarded on 15th of April during the TRA 2024 conference in Dublin. The book was prepared by the TRA 2024 consortium and was designed and directed by Ms. Micol Biscotto, project manager at Deep Blue ltd, Mr. Alessandro Tedeschi Gallo, Mr. Carlo Abate, consultant and Ms. Chiara Muccitelli, graphic designer at the same company and Mr. George Smyrnakis, Secretary General of WEGEMT with the support of Ina Schlinger (BALance Technology Consultig GmbH).

Road Award Winners

1ST

ZEDS - Zero Emission Driving System

Politecnico di Torino (Italy)

Team: Henrique de Carvalho Pinheiro

2ND

Optimizing Mixed-Fleet Multi-Terminal Electric Bus Schedules with Cutting-Edge Metaheuristics

Università Roma Tre (Italy)

Team: Tommaso Bosi

3RD

Are you scared of automated vehicles? European-level online survey and AI reveal crucial factors for the perceived risk of automated driving

Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)

Team: "Xiaolin He, Zirui Li"


Sponsors Road

8.

Multi-Objective Design Optimization Method for Electric Powertrains
Martin Hofstetter, Dominik Lechleitner
Graz University of Technology (Austria)

9.

Measuring social sustainability: towards social indicators for road pavement materials
Gabriella Buttitta, Pamela Maria Del Rosario Peguero
University of Palermo (Italy), RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

10.

Collaborative, Context-Aware and Intelligent Driving Risk Assessment
Jimiama Mosima Mafeni Mase
University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)


Rail Award Winners

1ST

Development of an advanced model for the suppression of corrugation wear in railway rails

University of The Basque Country (Spain)

Team: Rakel Robles

2ND

Supply Chain oriented Integrated Tactical Planning Method (ITPM) for international rail freight transport

Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)

Team: Jing Shan

3RD

Computer Aided Aerodynamical Analisis of Freight Trains

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

Team: Yago López Rivera


Supporter Rail


Waterborne Award Winners

1ST

AI-Driven Identification of Human Factors in Maritime Incidents

The University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom)

Team: Hollie Black

2ND

LOCK-INSPECTOR: A Dedicated Subsurface Inspection Radar System for Increasing Inland Waterway Infrastructure Resilience

Newcastle University (United Kingdom)

Team: Thomas McDonald

3RD

Hybrid Integration between Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and internal Combustion Engine fueled by clean fuels for domestic vessels (HISOFCE)

Università di Genova (Italy)

Team: Ahmed Elkafas


Sponsors Waterborne

4.

AI-based digital twin for safe and sustainable ship operations
Cong Liu, Mingyang Zhang
Aalto University (Finland)

5.
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7.

HYCata-Hope
Hüseyin Enis Sarikaya, Birtane Gökce
Bandirma Onyedi Eylül University (Turkey)

8.
9.

STS Danubius Celeritas: The future of maritime transport and tourism
Dan Voiculescu
National College „ C. Negri” (Romania)

10.

Unmanned surface vehicle for offshore wind farms diagnostics
Beata Mielus
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (Poland)


Airborne Award Winners

1ST

Event-based identification approach for Air Traffic Control workload based on Natural Language Processing techniques

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

Team: Marina Perez Navarro

2ND

Pricing Study for Advanced Air Mobility Trips based on Route & Vehicle Selection, Flight Performance Analysis, and Environmental Impact

Cranfield University (United Kingdom)

Team: Arinc Tutku Altun, Hasan Karali

3RD

Enhancing Ground Risk Mitigations with SFactor: Route Planning Based on Shelter Factor for Urban Blood Sample Drone Delivery

Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

Team: Sara Molinari


Sponsors Airborne

6.

Unmanned Aerial Service (UAS) Delivery Vehicle "FastDrop"
Chris Gurjao
Università di Bologna (Italy)

7.

Seramiwing: Revolutionizing Airborne Letter and Package Delivery
Sergiu Nistor, Alin Pepelea, Stefan Poterasu, Victor Puia
Colegiul National Costache Negri (Romania)


Cross modality Award Winners

1ST

Intelligent Carrier Decision Framework for Sustainable Intermodal Delivery Services

Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)

Team: Maurice Krauth, Matthias Ribesmeier

1ST

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) for women and goods travelling in Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study of Isolo in Lagos, Nigeria.

University of Leeds (United Kongdom)

Team: Ejiro Ikoko

3RD

Assessing the Feasibility of Regional MaaS

University of Bath (United Kingdom)

Team: Rita Prior Filipe, Nick McCullen


Sponsors Cross Modality

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5.

A tool for risk monitoring of vehicle remote operation
Sunil Basnet, Meriam Chaal
Aalto University (Finland)

6.

Co-Designing Resilient Future Mobility in Virtual Reality
Meng Cai, Niklas Suhre
Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany)

7.
8.

Adaptive Navigation System for Wheelchair Users in Urban Environments
Francesco Maria Turno
Transport and Telecommunication Institute (Latvia)

9.

Transportation Capacity Planning for Mega-events
Assemgul Kozhabek
Bournemouth University (United Kingdom)

10.

Promoting Safe and Sustainable Urban Mobility: A Micro-Mobility Mobile App for Safety, Integration, and Cooperation
Sevket Oguz Kagan Capkin, Francesca Damiani
Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

Award ceremony and TRA 2024 impressions