The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) and digital start-up ORIS have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see safety performance data produced using the iRAP Methodology integrated into ORIS’ pavement design platforms, helping to optimise the safety and sustainability of global road designs and construction.
The organisations will pursue joint opportunities for their combined approach to provide multidimensional road assessments that integrate Calificación de Estrella iRAP results and enable designers to now additionally optimise the road safety impact of their projects, saving lives and serious injuries.
Supported by Artificial Intelligence, the ORIS Digital Pavement Design and Material Management Platform gathers data on locally available construction materials and international and local standards, and considers factors like expected traffic and weather conditions to assess the carbon and cost life cycle impacts of different design options. It employs a unique material sourcing database, which helps link projects to locally available and recyclable materials to encourage uptake of circular economy approaches.
ORIS reports that with its system, road designers can reduce the carbon footprint of roads by up to 50%, increase the infrastructure lifespan by up to 3 times and lower costs by a range of 15% to 30%.
Adding iRAP Star Ratings to the ORIS tool – where 1-star roads are the least safe and 5-star roads are the safest – will additionally empower road designers to analyse and improve the safety of their designs for vehicle occupants, pedestrians, motorcyclists and bicyclists, before construction, to reduce road trauma.
Research shows that for each incremental increase in the iRAP Star Rating of a road, crash costs are halved, highlighting the significant economic benefit of the tools’ association.
The MOU follows a successful pilot project in Uzbekistan, with the ORIS team trained to perform iRAP safety assessments and include the results in their road assessment dashboard.
The teams will now work together to connect ORIS and VIDA, iRAP’s free-to-air online data processing engine for Star Ratings, Fatality and Serious Injury (FSI) Estimates y Investment Plans, using the iRAP ViDA API.
The integration, aimed to be complete by November 2022, will enable the automatic flow of Star Rating results to the ORIS safety dashboard, empowering users to enhance the road safety of their designs.
iRAP Global Technical Director James Bradford said, “We are delighted to partner with ORIS in this exciting initiative that has tremendous potential to enhance the road safety, sustainability and environment impact of road construction world-wide.
“A través de El marco de innovación de iRAP, the partnership is one of several exciting initiatives underway globally that are Hecho más seguro por iRAP y ayudará a los países a acelerar hacia el objetivo mundial de reducir a la mitad las muertes y lesiones en carretera para 2030.”
ORIS CEO Nicolas Miravalls said, “We are proud to partner with iRAP to support our customers in positioning road safety as a key element of their project design, at the same level as environmental concerns and cost-efficiency. It is a great step towards enabling an holistic, sustainable, safe and responsible approach to road pavement design.”
More than 1.4 million kilometres of roads and designs have been Star Rated by partners in 109 countries using the iRAP Methodology.
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Acerca de iRAP
iRAP es una organización benéfica registrada cuya visión es lograr un mundo sin carreteras de alto riesgo. La organización opera en más de 100 países y colabora con gobiernos, bancos de desarrollo, clubes de movilidad, organismos de investigación y ONG dedicadas a la seguridad vial para proporcionarles herramientas, sistemas y formación gratuitos que les permitan hacer que sus carreteras sean más seguras. La metodología de clasificación por estrellas de iRAP ofrece una medida sencilla y objetiva del nivel de seguridad ‘integrado’ en la carretera para los ocupantes de vehículos, motociclistas, ciclistas y peatones. Una carretera de 1 estrella es la menos segura y una de 5 estrellas, la más segura. La organización ha influido en la seguridad de más de 1,8 billones de dólares en inversiones en infraestructuras, ha calificado con estrellas más de 1,3 millones de kilómetros y ha elaborado mapas de riesgo de más de 1,6 millones de kilómetros de carreteras, además de haber formado a más de 54 000 personas en todo el mundo. iRAP es el programa paraguas de los programas regionales de evaluación de carreteras, entre los que se incluyen EuroRAP, ChinaRAP, AusRAP, usRAP, KiwiRAP, IndiaRAP, BrazilRAP, South Africa RAP, ThaiRAP y MyRAP, y cuenta con el apoyo financiero de la Fundación FIA, el Fondo Global para la Seguridad Vial y FedEx.
https://irap.org/
About ORIS
ORIS is a digital materials platform that enables professionals and public authorities to make data-driven decisions for more sustainable infrastructures. The platform computes the various parameters linked to the project in its real context, helping to drive investments according to priorities: carbon footprint mitigation, increased durability, local materials circularity, cost reduction, safety performance, or resilience to climate change. This Digital Pavement Design and Material Management Platform was incubated and developed in the research center of the leading building materials company HOLCIM in collaboration with the technology firm IBM. ORIS was incorporated in September 2021 as a neutral and independent company, serving with agility the construction ecosystem towards more sustainable infrastructure programs.
https://oris-connect.com/en/