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13/11/2021

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Connecting coast to coast – Latin America’s Inland Bi-Oceanic Corridors

By Christian Vine, Regional Associate for Latin America and Cristian Gonzalez, Partner & Director, Global Road Links Latin America is the fourth largest of the world´s continents. It has a total surface of around 18 million square kilometers, or roughly one-eighth of the land surface of the earth and its population counts approximately 430 million …Read more

15/04/2021

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How accommodating are our roads for self-driving cars?

By Caroline Visser, Global Road Links, and Stephane Dreher, OXSYS. Some years ago we were pondering about what a tool could look like to assess road networks’ readiness for automated driving. Remember this blog?: “What could an assessment tool for Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) readiness for roads look like?” This year, we were challenged …Read more

30/04/2020

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How to establish an objective and credible international Quality of Roads Index?

The annual Global Competitiveness Report (GCR), published by the World Economic Forum, provides a ranking of countries’ ability to provide high levels of prosperity to their citizens. Its Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 addresses twelve pillars of competitiveness, including an Infrastructure pillar, which in turn includes a transport infrastructure sub-pillar. The transport infrastructure sub-pillar is composed …Read more

06/04/2019

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What could an assessment tool for Connected and Automated Vehicle readiness for roads look like?

By Caroline Visser Having participated at the 2nd EU Connected and Automated Driving conference (EUCAD)[1], I was inspired by the variety of initiatives and innovations. During the session on Infrastructure support for automated driving, one particular inquiry projected through the online Q&A application read: is it time for Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) readiness assessment …Read more

29/03/2016

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A quiet (r)evolution: Smart Roads

Contrary to what car makers try and make you believe, there is much ongoing in smartening the road infrastructure that is to host the intelligent vehicles that are being developed and manufactured. One does get the impression, however, that the two developments – the smart car and smart roads – are two separate, parallel worlds, …Read more