Book of Abstracts
Digital Roads of the Future Annual Review 2024 13 November 2024, The Cambridge Union, Cambridge |
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 |
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. |
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) |
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 |
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 |
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) |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Semantics-based connectivity graph for indoor pathfinding powered by IFC-Graph Junxiang Zhu, Mun On Wong, Nicholas Nisbet, Jinying Xu, Tom Kelly, Sisi Zlatanova, Ioannis Brilakis Automation in Construction, Volume 171, March 2025, 106019 |
Collaborative Routing and Charging/Discharging Scheduling of Electric Autonomous Vehicles in Coupled Power-Traffic Networks: A Multi-Objective Approach Kai-Fung Chu; Tianlun Chen; Yue Xie; Albert Y. S. Lam, Yue Song and Fumiya Iida IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 17753-17764, 1 June, 2025 |
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 |
A Conceptual Framework for Planning Road Digital Twins Munkhbaatar Buuveibaatar, Ioannis Brilakis, Matt Peck, George Economides, Wonhee Lee Buildings 2025, 15(3), 316, January 2025 |
Physicochemical compatibility assessment of bio-additives and bitumen using solubility science-based approaches Yongping Hu, Anand Sreeram, Abir Al-Tabbaa, Gordon D. Airey Fuel, Volume 387, 1 May 2025, 134361 |
CAMHighways: The Cambridge Highways dataset Alix Marie d’Avigneau, Lilia Potseluyko, Nzebo Richard Anvo, Hussameldin M. Taha, Varun Kumar Reja, Diana Davletshina, Percy Lam, Lavindra de Silva, Abir Al-Tabbaa, Ioannis Brilakis Advanced Engineering Informatics Volume 64, March 2025, 103036 Access to CAMHighways Dataset Here |
Improved Bayesian model updating of geomaterial parameters for slope reliability assessment considering spatial variability Shui-Hua Jiang, Hong-Peng Hu, Ze Zhou Wang Structural Safety, Volume 112, January 2025, 102536 |
State transition learning with limited data for safe control of switched nonlinear systems Chenchen Fan, Kai-Fung Chu, Xiaomei Wang, Ka-Wai Kwok, Fumiya Iida Neural Networks, Volume 180, December 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Vehicle-sensor-based pavement surface condition monitoring based on an optical fibre computing framework Xiang Wang SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, Apr 2025, Prague, Czech Republic |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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) |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |