The aim of this programme is to undertake research into current best practice on the remote monitoring and inspection of physical road assets and provide advice on implementing new techniques as business practice. The primary focus of the research will be on road pavements and bridges. However, it will consider if the new approaches can also be applied to tunnels, drainage and geotechnical assets.

The outputs of the research will improve European road operators’ knowledge and understanding of remote asset condition monitoring and data collection to make lifecycle asset management decisions.

As a result of the linkages and dependencies between different phases of work, in this programme there is a single topic which has been split into three phases of work:

1. Information needs and current practice
2. Key issues and new approaches
3. Recommendations for implementation and dissemination

Following an open Call between 28 September 2021 and 17 December 2021, the Programme Executive Board subsequently selected one successful project:

INFRACOMS - Innovative & Future-proof Road Asset Condition Monitoring Systems

Project partners: TRL (UK, coordinator), BRRC (Belgium), VTI (Sweden), TUDelft (Netherlands), ZAG (Slovenia), DTI (Denmark), COWI (Denmark).

Project results:

• D1.1 Current Practice, Future need and Gap Analysis
• D2.1 Appraisal methodology
• D3.1 Report on state-of-the-art data assessment and visualisation methods
• D3.2 Integration of New and Emerging Technologies into Data Architectures
• Project website