KORE PlatformLaboratory of Roads, Railways and Airports

The Roads, Railways and Airports Laboratory is authorised by law to issue official certificates in compliance with Italian and European acceptance standards concerning the quality of materials used in civil engineering and transport infrastructure construction.

To this end, the Roads, Railways and Airports Laboratory has both traditional and advanced equipment for:

• the study and characterisation of soils and stone aggregates
• study and quality control of asphalt mixtures
• study and quality control of concrete mixes
• in situ control of the characteristics of the materials used in the construction process
• high-performance tests to measure the functional parameters (adhesion, regularity, bearing capacity) of road superstructures

The integrated use of innovative techniques and instrumentation available at the laboratory makes it possible to complete the cognitive picture of the degradation of materials used in road infrastructures by carrying out traffic surveys with the aid of automatic detectors of vehicle flows.

In addition to the previous lines of research, the investigation of advanced maintenance techniques for road and railway structures (bridges, viaducts, junctions, etc.) has recently been added to develop extensive intervention techniques capable of upgrading refunctionalizing the infrastructure heritage.

This field of research requires the identification of innovative techniques and technologies, which is only possible through experimentation and simulation of material behaviour in highly specialised laboratories.

• Giuffrè T, Morreale M., Tesoriere G., Trubia S.
  (2017). ‘New additive in bituminous mixtures for use with lightened embankment’.
  Proceedings of World Conference on Pavement and Asset Management, WCPAM2017, Milan, Italy, June 12/16, 2017
• Giuffrè T., Canale A., Trubia S., Persaud B.
  (2017), ‘Using microsimulation to evaluate safety and operational implications of newer roundabout layouts for European road networks.’ Sustainability 2017, 9(11), 2084; doi:10.3390/su9112084;
• Pratelli C., Giuffrè T., Marradi A., Betti G.
  (2018), ‘Preliminary results of using fast falling weight deflectometer for evaluation of innovative semi-flexible pavement wearing course mixture’.
  Proceedings of 97th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
  (USA), 7/11 January, 2018.
• Giuffrè T., Morreale M, Tesoriere G., Trubia S.
  (2018), ‘Rheological Behaviour of a Bitumen Modified with Metal Oxides Obtained by Regeneration Processes'[1} {2]Sustainability 2018, 10 (3), 604, doi:
  10.3390/su10030604
• Pratelli C., Giuffrè T., Marradi A., Betti G.
  (2018), ‘Evaluation of an innovative semi-flexible pavement wearing course mixture using Fast Falling Weight Deflectometer’, Materials 2018, 11 (4), 611; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040611,
• Fossetti M., Giuffrè T., Macaluso G., Siciliano A.F., D’arenzo G., Cottonaro D.R.
  (2019), ‘Influence of traffic-induced vibrations on a rapid repairing material for bridge decks’.
  In Proceedings of the XVIII ANIDIS Conference – L’Ingegneria Sismica in Italia. p. SG10-22 – SG10-31, Pisa University Press srl, ISBN 978-88-3339-256-1, ISSN 2532-120X, Ascoli Piceno, Sept. 15-19.
  2019.
• Fossetti M., Giuffrè T., Macaluso G., Siciliano A.F., D’arenzo G., Cottonaro D.R.
  (2019), ‘Retrofitting of existing tunnels with concrete lining: a preliminary experimental investigation’.
  In Proceedings of the XVIII ANIDIS Conference – L’Ingegneria Sismica in Italia. p. SG12-96 – SG12-104, Pisa University Press srl, ISBN 978-88-3339-256-1, ISSN 2532-120X, Ascoli Piceno, Sept. 15-19.
  2019
• Giuffrè, T., Fossetti, M., Siciliano, A.F.
  (2021) A new experimental investigation for improving bridge management systems and road operation sustainability.
  Infrastructures, 2021, 6(2), pp.
  1-16, 31
• Giuffrè, T., Granà, A., Trubia, S.
  (2021) Safety evaluation of turbo-roundabouts with and without internal traffic separations considering autonomous vehicle operation.
  Sustainability (Switzerland), 2021, 13(16), 8810