Transport is the lifeblood of every economy: safe and functional infrastructure ensures that people and goods move efficiently. This is not just the result of investment and engineering methods: digital plays an increasingly important role.

This is especially true of roads and motorways, which are an essential factor in generating new connections and accelerating local economic growth. In this context, structure monitoring and maintenance is critical to ensuring efficiency, sustainability and competitiveness.

The European context

Europe, in particular, has 77 thousand kilometres of motorways, plus 217 thousand kilometres of railways and 42,000 thousand kilometres of waterways. A broad and complex “web”, subject to considerable investment at both the national and community level, which can give the sector a significant boost. In this area, technological solutions are a valuable ally for identifying potential issues and opportunities and directing funding to where it will be most effective.

In the background, there is the major Trans-European Transport Network (Ten-T) project: its aim is to facilitate interconnection between the infrastructure systems of different countries by solving existing challenges (missing links, fragmentation, etc.). Sustainability and innovation are the underlying principles of this modernisation work