7 march 2002

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COST 350 - 2nd Management CommitteePRESENTATION
- SWITZERLAND SpeakerAndré-Gilles
DumontProfessor in the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology, LausanneDirector of the LAVOC -
Laboratory of Traffic Facilities
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What is your first and second reaction on the
technical annex Cost 350 ?

• Some keywords very interesting
• - sustainability
• - environment and transport infrastructure
  relationships
• - various decision-making levels
• - policy maker
• - COST 341
• Many domains
• Needs for practicals tools

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What is your reason to join Cost 350 ?

• Research
• - Coordination or continuation with others
  LAVOC s researches, like ...
• Manual Security Fauna-Traffic (4 editions in 6
  years!)
• Interactions between Fauna network and
  Transportation network (Switzerland - 2001)
• COST 341
• Thesis  Multicriteria methods and concertation
  in the roads infrastructures design  (LAVOC -
  M. Tille - 2001)
• - futur researches
• - exchange with others countries / experiences

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What is your reason to join Cost 350 ?

• Swiss National Center of Competence
• - experience in 2 domains
• Road design
• Fauna and Transport Networks
• - Interactions between these networks
• Sustainability in the road infrastructures
• Teaching
• - disseminate the results for the
  students/engineers
• - post-graduate formation

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What is your profession, what is your field of
interest ?

• LAVOC - Laboratory of Traffic Facilities
• School of Civil Engineering
• Transport infrastructures
• ENAC
• School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental
  Engineering
• EPFL - Lausanne
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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What is your profession, what is your field of
interest ?

• All the stages of the Road Life Cycle...
• Project design methodology / environmental
  aspects
• Construction methods / materials
• Maintenance pavement mangement system
• Management telematics / NTIC
• Many activities
• Teaching
• Research
• Laboratory - Expert

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What goals / aims / outputs should have priority
? (in COST 350)

• Integrate road infrastructure project
• - consideration of the environmentals aspects
  in the project or the planification
• at the beginning of the process
• during all the process
• .. as a chance, not a contraint
• Methodology
• - concertation / actors and relationships
• - multicriteria for decision-making
• - environmental aspects in the heart of the
  process

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Which steps have to be made first in this Cost
Action ?

• Bring together representative actors
• - project managers of transport infrastructures
• - environment specialists
• - policy makers
• Levels
• - national regional / planification - project
• Define exactly
• - field and target of the research
• - state of the art actual pratice
  problematic - needs

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What WG do you want to participate in ?

• WG 3
• - traffic characteristics
• - relationship with environment
• WG 4
• - Task 1 inventory of possible measures
• WG 5
• - Task 2 decision support models
• WG 7
• - further research requirements

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Swiss National network of Cost 350 interested
people

• Not yet created
• Nodes of the network
• - Research environment transport -
  transport policy
• - Swiss academic background
• - Administration national regional levels
• road railways - environment
• - Policies makers
• - Projects managers of infrastructures projects
• - Professionnals associations
• - Companies