Smart Transport and Infrastructures

With increasing attention on smart city development, there is a need to provide timely, reliable, safe and environment-friendly transport infrastructures in densely populated cities like Hong Kong and Singapore. The innovative technology developed by the research team of Prof. Y.Q. Ni for monitoring railway safety has been used in practice in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Brazil. The research team is among the first to implement Optical Fibre Sensing Technology (OFST) on in-service high-speed trains for online monitoring of operational safety. To enhance the sustainability of road construction, the research team led by Dr Z. Leng and Dr Y. H. Wang has developed various low-noise road surface paving technologies and investigated the recycling or up-cycling of various waste materials for pavement construction. The research on environment-friendly infrastructure materials such as recycled bitumen has led to a new design guide for using recycled materials in road pavements. To provide reliable real-time traffic information, the research team led by Prof. William H.K. Lam and Prof. A. Sumalee has developed various advanced solution algorithms for estimating the journey time and traffic speed of alternative routes on real-time basis. These developed algorithms of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have been implemented for Hong Kong and Bangkok.

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On-board monitoring of metro trains in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ITS Application (Speed Map Panel System) in Hong Kong