The Achievements of the "Computer Integrated Road Construction" Project

Abstract

The CIRC project has been the first major European project aiming at introducing the benefits of new technologies into the road work sites. After having introduced the project and its functional objectives, the paper describes the two products that were developed, the one for the compactors and the one for the asphalt pavers. A special stress is given to the major innovations that have resulted from the project. The paper end with the description of the achievements in terms of industrialisation of the products.

SmartSite: Intelligent and autonomous environments, machinery, and processes to realize smart road construction projects

“…automated surface crack detection and autonomous sealing of asphalt pavement, focus on road maintenance rather than road construction [9,10]. Real-time sensory inputs are often not considered [7,11] and information about environmental conditions are not incorporated in the path calculations [12][13][14]. Table 1 shows some of the recent approaches in assistance systems for compactor operators within the literature and reports about evaluations results as well as differences to our approach.…”

Visualizing asphalt roller trajectories in context: acquiring, processing, and representing sensor readings

“…This project aimed at developing computer integrated construction systems for road construction equipment [Peyret, 2000]. However, similar to CCC systems the CIRC project did not pay particular attention to reconstructing georeferenced initial temperature distributions and the geometry of the paved layer.…”