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Digital Roads of the Future Annual Review 2024

13 November 2024, The Cambridge Union, Cambridge

Book Chapters

Thermal Performance Optimization of Ribbons-Based Electrically Heated Pavements: A Numerical Study

Adam, Q. and Al-Tabbaa, A. (2025). Thermal Performance Optimization of Ribbons-Based Electrically Heated Pavements: A Numerical Study. Springer Nature Singapore. 

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Volume 7 (pp.373-381)

DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-8237-6_36

White papers

Building Trustworthiness in Carbon Data to Achieve Net-Zero Across the Life of Highway Assets

Jinying Xu, Kristen MacAskill, and Francesco De Toma

The decarbonisation of the transportation sector is critical to achieving a Net Zero Economy. PAS2080:2023 provides an overarching guidance for carbon management in infrastructure and buildings, but does not extend to covering how the underlying collection, sharing, reporting, and analysis of carbon data takes place. Data trustworthiness issues emerge from stakeholders often relying on obtaining data from others, using different methods and systems. This whitepaper addresses the data trustworthiness issues, identifies its four key pillars and key success factors, and discusses how technology can help. It sets the scene for developing a standardised carbon data model and calls the engagement of value chain stakeholders.

2023 University of Cambridge

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.108074

Journal publications

Exploring the value of digital twins for information management in highway asset maintenance

Mengtian Yin, Varun Kumar Reja, Ran Wei, Ioannis Brilakis, Brian Sheil, Federico Perrotta, Alix Marie d'Avigneau, Linjun Lu

Developments in the Built Environment, Volume 21, March 2025, 100614

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100614

Semantics-based connectivity graph for indoor pathfinding powered by IFC-Graph

Junxiang ZhuMun On WongNicholas NisbetJinying XuTom KellySisi ZlatanovaIoannis Brilakis

Automation in Construction, Volume 171, March 2025, 106019

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106019

Development of A Trustworthy AI-supported Digital Twin Framework for Road Operation and Maintenance

Linjun Lu, Mengtian Yin, Yue Xie, Yuandong Pan, Mudan Wang, Ioannis Brilakis

Smart Construction 2025(1):0001, January 2025

https://doi.org/10.55092/sc20250001. 

A Conceptual Framework for Planning Road Digital Twins

Munkhbaatar Buuveibaatar, Ioannis Brilakis, Matt Peck, George EconomidesWonhee Lee

Buildings 2025, 15(3), 316, January 2025

https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15030316

Physicochemical compatibility assessment of bio-additives and bitumen using solubility science-based approaches

Yongping HuAnand SreeramAbir Al-TabbaaGordon D. Airey

Fuel, Volume 387, 1 May 2025, 134361

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2025.134361

CAMHighways: The Cambridge Highways dataset

Alix Marie d’AvigneauLilia PotseluykoNzebo Richard AnvoHussameldin M. TahaVarun Kumar RejaDiana DavletshinaPercy LamLavindra de SilvaAbir Al-TabbaaIoannis Brilakis

Advanced Engineering Informatics Volume 64, March 2025, 103036

Access to CAMHighways Dataset Here

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2024.103036

Improved Bayesian model updating of geomaterial parameters for slope reliability assessment considering spatial variability

Shui-Hua JiangHong-Peng HuZe Zhou Wang

Structural Safety, Volume 112, January 2025, 102536

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strusafe.2024.102536

State transition learning with limited data for safe control of switched nonlinear systems

Chenchen FanKai-Fung ChuXiaomei WangKa-Wai KwokFumiya Iida

Neural Networks, Volume 180, December 2024, 106695

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106695

Carbon data and its requirements in infrastructure-related GHG standards

Jinying Xu and Kristen MacAskill

Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 162, December 2024, 103935

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103935

Automating construction of road digital twin geometry using context and location aware segmentation

Diana Davletshina, Varun Kumar Reja, Ioannis Brilakis

Automation in Construction, 168, Part A, 105795

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105795.

Review of multimodal data and their applications for road maintenance

Shirin Malihi, Lilia Potseluyko, Alwyn Mathew, Hamidreza Alavi, Varun Kumar Reja, Yuandong Pan, Leonardo Binni, Guangming Wang, Xiang Wang, Ioannis Brilakis

Smart Construction, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2024, September 2024

DOI: 10.55092/sc20240010

Bayesian dynamic modelling for probabilistic prediction of pavement condition

Yiming Zhang, Alix Marie d'Avigneau, Georgios M. Hadjidemetriou, Lavindra de Silva, Mark Girolami, Ioannis Brilakis

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Volume 133, Part F, July 2024, 108637

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108637

A critical review of road network material stocks and flows: Current progress and what we can learn from it

Daniel Grossegger, Kristen MacAskill, and Abir Al-Tabbaa

Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 205, June 2024, 107584

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107584 

Review papers

Soft touchless sensors and touchless sensing for soft robots

Chapa Sirithunge, Huijiang Wang and Fumiya Iida

Front. Robot. AI, 18 January 2024 Sec. Bio-Inspired Robotics Volume 11 - 2024

https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2024.1224216

Conference papers

Mixed-Autonomy Traffic and Wireless Charging Problem for Autonomous Electric Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning

Kai-Fung Chu, Yue Xie, Albert YS Lam and Fumiya Iida

9th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.112381 

Embodied Intelligence in Transportation Systems: Road Network Computing

Kai-Fung Chu, Fan Ye and Fumiya Iida  

OP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 1321, Article 1.

https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/1321/1/012010

Enhancing the Performance of Electrically Heated Pavements with Stripes of Thermally Conductive Asphalt Concrete: A Numerical Investigation

Quentin Félix Adam, Pauline Segui, Abir Al-Tabbaa and Jean-Pascal Bilodeau 

14th International Conference on Asphalt Pavements ISAP2024 Montreal. ISAP APE 2024. Springer, Cham.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67252-1_65

Information requirements over the asset lifecycle to include carbon into digital twin: A UK highway example

Jinying Xu, Kristen MacAskill, Mengtian Yin, Junxiang Zhu and Ioannis Brilakis

Proceedings of the 41st International Conference of CIB W78, Marrakech, Morocco, 2-3 October 2024, ISSN: 2706-6568. (ISSN: 2706-6568)

http://itc.scix.net/paper/w78-2024-146

BG-LoA: A Benchmarking Framework for BIM/GIS Data Integration based on Meta-Modelling Theory 

Junxiang Zhu, Ran Wei, Mengtian Yin and Ioannis Brilakis

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLVIII-4-2024 ISPRS TC IV Mid-term Symposium “Spatial Information to Empower the Metaverse”, 22–25 October 2024, Fremantle, Perth, Australia

https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-2024-591-2024

Priorities and KPIs in the evaluation of digital building permit processes from different stakeholder perspectives

Judith Fauth, Tanya Bloch, Lucio Soibelman, Ioannis Brilakis

European Conference on Product and Process Modeling, September 2024

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.109297

Digital building permits and digital building logbooks – clustering the challenges and requirements for alignment

Pedro Mêda, Judith Fauth, Christian Schranz, Harald Urban and Hipólito Sousa

2024 European Conference on Computing in Construction, July 2024, Greece

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.109208

Capturing Reality Changes from Point Clouds for Updating Road Geometric Digital Twins

Diana Davletshina, Varun Kumar Reja and Ioannis Brilakis

2024 European Conference on Computing in Construction, July 2024, Greece

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.107287

How Can Digital Twins Be Used in Highway Maintenance? A Questionnaire Survey for Industry Practitioners

Mengtian Yin, Varun Kumar Reja, Ran Wei, Brian Sheil and Ioannis Brilakis

2024 European Conference on Computing in Construction, July 2024, Greece

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.107921

A Digital Twin Based Approach to Control Overgrowth of Roadside Vegetation

Varun Kumar Reja, Diana Davletshina, Mengtian Yin, Ran Wei, Quentin Felix Adam, Ioannis Brilakis and Federico Perrotta

2024 41st International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, June 2024

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.107918

Navigating Mixed Traffic: Current State and Future Challenges in Integrating Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles

Kai-Fung Chu, Chenchen Fan and Fumiya Iida

2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO) May 2024, May 2024

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.107292

A carbon data trustworthiness framework for the construction sector

Jinying Xu and Kristen MacAskill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom,

2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction and the 40th International CIB W78 Conference

10.35490/EC3.2023.261

Soft robotic tactile perception of softer objects based on learning of spatiotemporal pressure patterns

Tetsushi Nonaka , Arsen Abdulali , Chapa Sirithunge , Kieran Gilday and Fumiya Iida

2023 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 2023

10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10121950

The Xeno-Tongue Gripper: Granular Jamming Suction Cup with Bellow-driven Self-Morphing

Kieran Gilday, Ryman Hashem, Arsen Abdulali, and Fumiya Iida

2023 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 2023

10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10121982

Effect of SAPs and polypropylene fibres on the freeze-thaw resistance of low carbon roller compacted concrete pavement

Vahid Afroughsabet, and Abir Al-Tabbaa

SMARTINCS’23 Conference on Self-Healing, Multifunctional and Advanced Repair Technologies in Cementitious Systems, March 2023

https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202337808006