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The freight transportation in cities is a major disturbing factor to urban life in terms of congestion, pollution, safety and security. A central issue in city logistics (CL) is to design logistics systems that move goods to, from, and within urban areas while meeting sustainability goals. Such CL s

The MAMUT project aims at designing an open platform for solving recurrent and dynamic vehicle routing problems in urban environments. In order to address these urban transportation problems, we propose to combine operations research (OR) and artificial intelligence (AI). OR is able to propose fast

The development of safe and secure applications such as remote driving, remote diagnostics, platooning of trains and autonomous vehicles in railway context has led to an unprecedented need for reliable radio links. The Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) is designed at European level

Moving from a linear urban metabolism to a circular resource economy is a major challenge for urban systems. The food-excretion system is no exception to this reality. The organic matter and nutrients from our food is found in biowaste and excreta and is little recovered, even though it is needed fo

Due to global warming, serious problems of buildings overheating during summer in temperate and hot climates arise. Thus there is an increasingly use of air conditioning. However, to address both comfort and energy savings issues, some alternative passive and soft cooling systems exist such as natur

Earthen culture heritage played a great role to revive interest for earth as a sustainable construction. The durability of earthen structure set a proof of its longevity. Nevertheless, earthen materials are sensitive to natural aggression from water, humidity, temperature. Moreover, due to climate c

The increased risk for powered two-wheelers (PTW) drivers is still very high: the risk of being killed for a PTW driver is 22 times higher than that of a car driver. The motorcyclists die on curves in 49% of cases. When taking a curve, riders alternate between taking short-term information to co

Environmental issues in building sector are huge, particularly in the context of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This concerns not only the construction phase, but also operation phase and end of life of buildings. Within this framework and following new RE2020 regulations, this project aims to i

A cable car cabin carrying passengers is a moving mechanical system hanging from a cable with several degrees-of-freedom (pendular movement) and subjected to surrounding wind loads. The development of CT in urban areas comes with new constraints. These urban areas are indeed specifically characteriz

For public comfort, health and safety reasons, a good prediction and understanding of air ventilation in urban areas are increasingly important to guide policy makers, urban planners and environmental engineers. The turbulent nature of the flow circulating through urban areas and the morphological c

The growing energy needs of urban areas and the environmental context lead to the development of new energy technologies. In particular, since the 1980s, a new geothermal method has been developed: energy geostructures, consisting in fixing heat exchanger pipes to the reinforcement cages of geotechn

Its objectives are to: - Determine the BRDF (function that characterises the reflectivity of a surface for all illumination and observation directions ) by : Measurements on samples and in situ conditions Numerical simulations for BRDF prediction (virtual gonioreflectometry)

Over the past 20 years, much knowledge has been accumulated on the disturbances of animal behavior linked to ALAN, on the modifications of the abundance of species and on the functioning of ecosystems. The main motivation for research in ecology on these subjects comes from the fact that humans have

OLICOW aims to significantly improve capabilities to analyse and predict crowd behaviour in public areas. Crowd observation and simulation problems have been historically addressed separately by different scientific communities, and attempts to couple them are recent, have been performed offline so

The team wishes to demonstrate that the global maritime network went through several phases of rationalization and optimization since the late 19th century, at the expenses of its ties with urban settlements. Theories proposed by regional scientists explain that such an evolution is beneficial to no

To develop sustainable cities, urban mitigation policies reduced pollutant emissions and increased the number of vegetated areas to reduce urban heat islands, counteract carbon emissions, and improve air quality. But the impact of green infrastructures on secondary pollutants (formed in the air) rem

The objectif of the present project is to develop solutions of composite steel-cross laminated timber (CLT) beams, considering mechanical connection in order to allow its disassembly and reuse. Various researches exist on the mechanical behavior of CLT panels. Some researchers worked on the combinat