Meeting modern transportation requirements including interconnectivity, reliability, safety and resilience of infrastructure.
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About the program
Green and resilient transport infrastructure includes the use of novel materials to meet environmental sustainability requirements to reduce urban heat island effects from transportation infrastructure.
This research theme focuses on fundamental and applied global and national research challenges at each stage of the modernised transportation life cycle from innovative design, novel and sustainable materials, and modern construction technologies to accommodate increased traffic capacity while improving safety, stability and liveability standards.
Research focus areas
- Advanced Climate-Responsive Ground Stabilisation:
- Vacuum consolidation
- Bioengineering and bio-stabilisation
- Dynamic compaction
- Chemical treatment and stabilisation.
- Soil-structure interaction mechanisms and computational geotechnics for advanced design and analysis of transportation infrastructure including post-flooding assessment and mitigation measures.
- Behaviour of roads and rail substructure including field, laboratory testing, and prototype physical modelling.
- Advanced material characterisation and processing techniques:
- Energy-absorbing properties of track substructure such as recycled rubber
- Use of marginal fills such as coal-wash and slag in lieu of natural aggregates
- Particle interlocking via geogrids for improved stability.