Reimagining the future of transport and forever open road program

Abstract

Transportation has a very wide effects either economic or social on human life. Millions of people are also working directly or indirectly for this industry. So, it is a mandatory for governments to evaluate their aspects on transportation construction, management, control and maintenance by increasing mobility. Also new technological developments and researches caused some changes in the expectations at many fields by new design and management approaches. The European Commission have supported some researches within Horizon 2020 program for new innovations to develop a highly efficient and effective cross modal transportation. In this paper recent developments at FOX (Forever Open Infrastructure Across all Transport Modes) program seeks to develop general methods for all transport modes and FOR (Forever Open Roads) program have reviewed. There are also benefits of FOR program that developed by Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL) have mentioned and the outcome elements as automated, autonomous and resilient roads of the program have described.

Keywords

• Transportation
• FOR program
• autonomous road
• automated road
• resilient road

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