The future of road transport is in „smart“ roads. That means roads that are not only characterised by good quality and low construction costs but that ensure driver safety or reliable tracks for autonomous vehicles - all of this with a minimal impact on the environment.
ECO ROAD TEAM has decided to create a product which would help construction companies to implement this vision in practice..
Building and using such roads, which will undoubtedly increase during the following decades, is the only possible alternative for future road development. The goal is, simply put, to have roads and motorways like this in the year 2050. They will also be more easily maintainable for administrators of transport infrastructure. It is also very important to ensure that these trends are perceived by both experts and the general public.
One of the expert visions targeted at this milestone consists in so-called 5th generation roads (hereinafter only the R5G). It is another step in the evolution of roads:
The ECO ROAD TEAM has decided to create a product which would help construction companies to implement this vision in practice. This is something they cannot avoid but which some of them are afraid of.
Our ECO ROAD Concept is intended particularly for these. It combines several technological products which allow roads to be constructed in a better way and at significantly lower costs. We are firmly convinced that even today, in co-operation with business contacts, we are able to implement this R5G vision intended for the years 2035 - 2050. For this purpose, we already have all the necessary technologies and trained experts, and above all experience obtained from more than 300 km of road where we successfully tested this concept. These visions for the next decades can, without exaggerating, be transformed into reality much sooner - using current solutions, equipment and knowledge of participants in construction projects.
The ECO ROAD Concept complies with the principles of Industry 4.0. The concept smoothly implements three ordinary technologies into the road reconstruction process, and interconnects them into a functional system using software optimisation:
We believe that this interconnection enables the industry to ensure construction of high-quality safe pavements at reasonable costs.
This concept has a great advantage: construction companies that decide to use it basically need not learn anything new. They even need not invest in new equipment, complicated technical solutions or training of their staff. It is good for the companies that they are not forced to change neither their work methods nor the system of task assignments and executions. In other words: our ECO ROAD Concept is to serve companies that are afraid of abrupt changes, expenses for technologies connected with further market development and its expected requirements for road and motorway quality and facilities.
Inclusion of their workers, designers, geo-technicians, geodesists and construction site managers should work in a natural way in the style "only what has really been done is decisive". We believe that we can persuade them that the use of our methods and technologies will make their work easier and enhance the quality of the "product" the creation of which they participated in.
The ECO ROAD Concept has a clear goal: creating a unified approach to road administration and repairs. Therefore, we have set six objectives:
In the text below, we introduce the three basic pillars of our service within the ECO ROAD Concept. Putting these solutions into practice requires no changes or investments by construction companies:
Plan for road system repair design according to the ECO ROAD Concept 2019 – 2025 (first stage of R5G)
Roadmap for the year 2019
Literature on the subject