By focusing on the roadbed and, particularly, on roads paved with asphalt (the most widely applied type of pavement in Europe, accounting for 90% of all paved roads and highways), the project will develop autonomous robotized systems/machinery for:

• (re)paving
• repairing cracks/potholes in the road surface
• line marking

In addition, it will develop robotized safety systems for workers and road users. It will then develop integrated one-piece precast construction elements for the roadside drainage serving a major degree of modularization in road design and construction/upgrade.

In order to cope with optimal road maintenance planning, the project will furthermore upgrade existing Pavement Management Systems (PMS) to use digital twin models of road networks that track changes of their physical counterparts in real time, to give support for maintenance planning based on dynamic predictive modelling and the acquisition of real-time data on pavement conditions. Finally, yet evenly important, to provide for the safe and coordinated deployment of automated road maintenance robots, the project will attempt the integration of Pavement Management System (PMS) and Traffic Management System (TMS) solutions in order to allow for a holistic, integrated management of road infrastructure and traffic over the whole lifespan.