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Book of Abstracts

Digital Roads of the Future Annual Review 2024

13 November 2024, The Cambridge Union, Cambridge

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116694

Book Chapters

Digital Technologies for Climate-Adaptive Smart Urban Transportation Systems

Jinying Xu, Kristen MacAskill, Asaf Tzachor and Catherine Richards

Routledge Handbook of Smart Built Environment, pp 296-313, March 2025

http://doi.org/10.1201/9781003383840-19 

Data-Driven Pavement Performance Modelling: A Short Review

Ze Zhou Wang, Abir Al-Tabbaa, Bachar Hakim and Buddhima Indraratna 

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Volume 1. 

10.1007/978-981-97-8213-0_25

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

Quentin Adam Felix and Abir Al-Tabbaa (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)

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

Automating maintenance of road Geometric Digital Twins through single scan instance aware point cloud change retrieval

Diana Davletshina, Varun Kumar Reja, and Ioannis Brilakis

Advanced Engineering Informatics, Volume 67, September 2025, 103476

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2025.103476

Reservoir controllers design though robot-reservoir timescale alignment

Fan Ye, Arsen Abdulali, Kai-Fung Chu, Xiaoping Zhang, Fumiya Iida

Communications Engineering 4, Article number: 81 (2025) 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s44172-025-00418-1 

Road surface condition monitoring with an optical fibre reservoir structure based on acceleration data from vehicles

Xiang Wang, Fan Ye, Zhaojie Sun, Shirin Malihi, Fumiya Iida

Optics & Laser Technology Volume 186, August 2025, 112641

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.112641

Modeling heterogeneous spatiotemporal pavement data for condition prediction and preventive maintenance in digital twin-enabled highway management

Linjun Lu, Alix Marie d'Avigneau, Yuandong Pan, Zhaojie Sun, Peihang Luo, Ioannis Brilakis

Automation in Construction, Volume 174, June 2025, 106134

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106134

Releasing the power of graph for building information discovery

Zhu, J.; Nisbet, N.; Yin, M.; Wei, R.; Brilakis, I.

Automation in Construction, Vol 172, April 2025

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.115704

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

Collaborative Routing and Charging/Discharging Scheduling of Electric Autonomous Vehicles in Coupled Power-Traffic Networks: A Multi-Objective Approach

Kai-Fung ChuTianlun ChenYue XieAlbert Y. S. LamYue Song and Fumiya Iida

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 17753-17764, 1 June, 2025

doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3538796

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

Characterisation of the spatial variability of underconsolidated Singapore Marine Clay using random field theory

Ze Zhou Wang, Xiangfeng Guo, Yue Hu

Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, 1–19, November 2024

https://doi.org/10.1080/17499518.2024.2422487

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.

Scan-to-graph: Automatic generation and representation of highway geometric digital twins from point cloud data

Yuandong Pan, Mudan Wang, Linjun Lu, Ran Wei, Stefano Cavazzi, Matt Peck, Ioannis Brilakis

Automation in Construction, Volume 166, October 2024, 105654

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105654

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

Closure to “Effects of Movement Induced by Ground Improvement on the Performance of an Excavation Support System in Underconsolidated Clay”

Ze Zhou Wang and Andrew J. Whittle 

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Volume 150, Issue 12

https://doi.org/10.1061/JGGEFK.GTENG-11588

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

Deep Learning–Based Prediction of Tunnel Face Stability in Layered Soils Using Images of Random Fields

Zheming Zhang, Ze Zhou Wang, Siang Huat Goh, and Jian Ji

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Volume 150, Issue 8

https://doi.org/10.1061/JGGEFK.GTENG-12109

Comparing 2D and 3D slope stability in spatially variable soils using random finite-element method

Chongzhi WU, Ze Zhou WANG, Siang Huat GOH, Wengang ZHANG 

Computers and Geotechnics, Volume 170, June 2024, 106324

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2024.106324

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

Pole-Shaped Object Extraction from LiDAR Point Clouds of Roads

Shirin Malihi; Danesh Shokri; Saeid Homayouni; Christian Larouche; Heidar Rastiveis; Ioannis Brilakis

42nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2025). July 2025, Montreal, Canada

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117117

How good are the best practices in carbon reduction? UK highway sector case studies

Jinying Xu and Kristen MacAskill

42nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, (ISARC 2025). July 2025, Montreal, Canada

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117341

NAVI-GRAPH: A SEMANTICS-BASED NETWORK FOR INDOOR PATHFINDING

Junxiang Zhu; Mun On Wong; Nicholas Nisbet; Jinying Xu; Judith Fauth; Ioannis Brilakis

EC3 2025 European Conference on Computing in Construction, July 2025, Porto, Portugal

 

Extending IFC Data Structure for Carbon Digital Twin: An IFC Road Example

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

EC3 2025 European Conference on Computing in Construction, July 2025, Porto, Portugal

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.118098

Aligning Multi-Domain Ontologies to Automate Building Permit Review Processes

Judith Fauth; Yin Mengtian; Brilakis Ioannis

EC3 2025 European Conference on Computing in Construction, July 2025, Porto, Portugal

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116182

Relationship Modelling For Road Geometric Digital Twins Using Spatial Analysis And LLMs

Diana Davletshina; Varun Kumar Reja; Ioannis Brilakis

EC3 2025 European Conference on Computing in Construction, July 2025, Porto, Portugal

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116847

Uncertainty of Monocular Point clouds for Twinning Roads

Shirin Malihi, Ioannis Brilakis, George Economides, Graham Starkey, Simon Cumming, Stefano Cavazzi

EC3 2025 European Conference on Computing in Construction, July 2025, Porto, Portugal

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117118

Accelerating Soft Robot Evolution Using N-gram-based Controller Inheritance and Genetic Co-Design

Yue Xie; Yan Xueming; Fumiya Iida

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2025, Malaga, Spain, Jul 2025 . GECCO '25 Companion: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. ACM

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117091

The Morphology-Control Trade-Off: Insights into Soft Robotic Efficiency

Yue Xie; Kai-feng Chu; Xing Wang; Fumiya Iida

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2025, Hangzhou, China, Jun 2025 

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117695

Load spatial superposition effect in Traffic Speed Deflectometer tests of pavements

Zhaojie Sun; Ze Zhou Wang; Xiang Wang; Linjun Lu; Yuandong Pan; Lavindra De Silva; Ioannis Brilakis

Advances in Materials and Pavement Performance Prediction - AM3P 2025, May 2025, Vienna, Austria

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117298

Zero-Shot Learning with Vision-Language Models for Estimating Building Energy Efficiency from Street View Images

Yuandong Pan; Linjun Lu; Mudan Wang; Varun Kumar Reja; Florian Noichl; André Borrmann; Ioannis Brilakis

ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE 2025), May 2025, New Orleans, USA

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117674

Reservoir Computing Encodes Physical Adaptations for Reinforcement Learning

Cross Giannetto, Ibragim Atadjanov, Fumiya Iida, Arsen Abdulali

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA 2025), May 2025, Atlanta, USA

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116424

Human Emotion-Mediated Soft Robotic Arts: Exploring the Intersection of Human Emotions, Soft Robotics and Arts

Chapa Hewa Pelendage; Fumiya Iida; Saitarun Nadipineni; Chenhao Hong; Tanishtha Ramlall; Thilina Lalitharatne; Kaspar Althoefer

8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025), April 2025, Lausanne, Switzerland

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116206

Closed-Loop Control of Robotic Cutting through Tactile Force Estimation

Ran Xin, Arsen Abdulali, Fumiya Iida

8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025), April 2025, Lausanne, Switzerland

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.115677

Vehicle-sensor-based pavement surface condition monitoring based on an optical fibre computing framework

Xiang Wang

SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, Apr 2025, Prague, Czech Republic

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116314

A Distributed Twin System for Managing Asset-process Interactions in Highway Infrastructure Systems

Mengtian Yin; Tom Kelly; Pieter Pauwels; Liming Xu; Brian Sheil; Junxiang Zhu; Yue Xie and Ioannis Brilakis

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.113882

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, December 2024, Hong Kong

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

Integrating Surface-related Indicators of Coverage, Distance and Distribution for Quantifying Scan-to-BIM Confidence Level

Shirin Malihi and F. Bosché

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, X-4–2024, 223–229.

https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-2024-223-2024

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”, October 2024, Fremantle, Perth, Australia

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

Decision Support for Building Permit Application Preparation

Ronny Weinkauf, Judith Fauth

CEGOV 2024: 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Pretoria, South Africa, October 2024

https://doi.org/10.1145/3680127.3680152 

Effect of Material Viscosity on Tactile Compliance Discrimination

Arsen Abdulali, Cornella, AC, Chapa Sirithunge, Fumiya Iida

IEEE RAS EMBS 10th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2024), September 2024

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.113051

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

Towards Trustworthy Road Digital Twins: A State-of-the-art Review

Linjun Lu; Yuandong Pan; Ioannis Brilakis

2024 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3ce2024), July 2024, Pittsburgh, USA

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.109589

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

Fin-QD: A Computational Design Framework for Soft Grippers: Integrating MAP-Elites and High-fidelity FEM

Yue Xie; Xing Wang; Fumiya Iida; David Howard

2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 2024, San Diego, USA

10.1109/RoboSoft60065.2024.10521959

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, July 2023

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