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Friday, April 18, 2025
QI MOBILITY è un format innovativo in quanto è un percorso di educazione stradale ed alla mobilità sostenibile innovativo. QI MOBILITY integra i tradizionali input di educazione stradale con gli SDGs dell’Agenda 2030 e le metodologie del project management.
Il format prevede 3 focus tenuti da docenti esperti dell’ambito, dei quali uno maggiormente incentrato sui temi dell’Agenda 2030, della sostenibilità, della mobilità sostenibile mentre gli altri due focus andranno ad affrontare le tematiche del rispetto delle norme del Codice della Strada e tutti i principali aspetti dell’educazione stradale. Il progetto è stato patrocinato da ISIPM, ASviS, Provincia e Comune di Lecce
Il format prevede 3 focus tenuti da docenti esperti dell’ambito, dei quali uno maggiormente incentrato sui temi dell’Agenda 2030, della sostenibilità, della mobilità sostenibile mentre gli altri due focus andranno ad affrontare le tematiche del rispetto delle norme del Codice della Strada e tutti i principali aspetti dell’educazione stradale. Il progetto è stato patrocinato da ISIPM, ASviS, Provincia e Comune di Lecce
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Una delle sfide principali riguarda una cultura radicata che privilegia l'uso dell'automobile, scoraggiando l'adozione di mezzi pubblici e di trasporti alternativi. Questo comportamento si riflette in un mancato rispetto delle normative del codice della strada. Inoltre, c'è una scarsa attenzione verso la protezione degli utenti più vulnerabili, come pedoni e ciclisti. Questo atteggiamento compromette la vivibilità della città, che viene vissuta più come un luogo di transito che come uno spazio di incontro e socializzazione.
Monday, April 14, 2025
We looked for solutions on how to improve the current situation regarding the availability of alcohol, its use and the prevention of drunk driving among young people in our and surrounding municipalities.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Road safety in Europe and worldwide is still tragically compromised by a high number of accidents and avoidable loss of human lives.
This is compounded by the worrying frequency of vehicle recalls for brake problems, with over 3 million units affected in just two years (ANSA data), a symptom of an intrinsic vulnerability in current systems.
The dependence on rare materials in traditional braking systems and new technologies not only creates economic instability but also generates significant geopolitical implications.
Furthermore, there remains a lack of a reliable and universal mechanical solution capable of improving braking and ensuring safety in the event of failure.
These challenges highlight the urgent need for innovative solutions like DUOBBRAK, capable of overcoming the limitations of current systems, despite the resistance, and mostly the indifference, encountered in promoting it within the industry, accelerators, and public and private institutions
This is compounded by the worrying frequency of vehicle recalls for brake problems, with over 3 million units affected in just two years (ANSA data), a symptom of an intrinsic vulnerability in current systems.
The dependence on rare materials in traditional braking systems and new technologies not only creates economic instability but also generates significant geopolitical implications.
Furthermore, there remains a lack of a reliable and universal mechanical solution capable of improving braking and ensuring safety in the event of failure.
These challenges highlight the urgent need for innovative solutions like DUOBBRAK, capable of overcoming the limitations of current systems, despite the resistance, and mostly the indifference, encountered in promoting it within the industry, accelerators, and public and private institutions
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Guardrails installed on road bridges are essential to the safety of vehicles and road users. May accidents happen every year, involving vehicles falling from bridges with often fatal consequences. These issues have caused, in Italy, in the last decade, more fatalities than bridge collapses, even if we count the Morandi bridge collapse victims.
Many infrastructure managers, especially at the local level, often lack accurate and up-to-date inventories of the safety barriers on their bridges. Moreover, the limited availability of financial resources, combined with the lack of personnel, makes it difficult for these entities to effectively assess the condition of such critical infrastructure. This proposed technology is represented by an integrated methodology to automate the assessment of road guardrails installed on bridges using open-source data and deep learning (DL) algorithms. It innovatively uses YOLO (You Only Look Once) object detection algorithm to classify the safety barriers to establish whether they match the current standards. To speed up the evaluation process, the software tool involves the extraction of bridge information from OpenStreetMap (OSM) to construct a database of existing bridges, which most road management bodies miss. This is integrated with Google Street View API, for the extraction of images of each bridge’s safety barriers to be analysed by YOLO. The synergic concatenation of these three steps (OSM, Google Street View, YOLO) into a unique software tool, provides road managers with a cost-effective and efficient tool to remotely survey the guardrails installed on their bridges, permitting to timely identify bridges needing barrier replacment.
Many infrastructure managers, especially at the local level, often lack accurate and up-to-date inventories of the safety barriers on their bridges. Moreover, the limited availability of financial resources, combined with the lack of personnel, makes it difficult for these entities to effectively assess the condition of such critical infrastructure. This proposed technology is represented by an integrated methodology to automate the assessment of road guardrails installed on bridges using open-source data and deep learning (DL) algorithms. It innovatively uses YOLO (You Only Look Once) object detection algorithm to classify the safety barriers to establish whether they match the current standards. To speed up the evaluation process, the software tool involves the extraction of bridge information from OpenStreetMap (OSM) to construct a database of existing bridges, which most road management bodies miss. This is integrated with Google Street View API, for the extraction of images of each bridge’s safety barriers to be analysed by YOLO. The synergic concatenation of these three steps (OSM, Google Street View, YOLO) into a unique software tool, provides road managers with a cost-effective and efficient tool to remotely survey the guardrails installed on their bridges, permitting to timely identify bridges needing barrier replacment.