This project aims to develop an audit method based on the combination of measurements and modelling so that relevant renovation solutions can be obtained, leading to effective energy performances after renovation. What is original in this method, when compared to existing methods, is that it sets out to accurately determine the intrinsic performance of a building on the one hand, and that it aims to assess how a building is used and operates, on the other hand. The process of identifying the intrinsic thermal characteristics of a building is twofold: a first phase including in-situ measurements and a second phase consisting of inverting thermal and aeraulic models. The global audit method comprises a thermal behaviour model applied to building whose input data result from developments obtained when conducting the project. Beyond the scientific development of the method and its validation according to usual procedures, this project provides for the analysis of its economic feasibility together with approval of the method by the various professionals involved. Furthermore, three pilot projects are intended to analyse how the method can be applied on site. This project falls within the scope of the professionalization of audit and renovation activities in order to ensure the economic relevance of the work proposed, its actual energy efficiency and the approval by the various building users through the positive impacts on both comfort and control of expenses.

The research project ROADSENSE aims to define, conceive, deploy and validate experimentally a driving assistance for motored road users. This assistance is delivered by audio tactile lines installed on the road, producing an alert by sound and vibration into the vehicle while passing on it. This alert is intended to correct the lane departures of distracted, disoriented or tired drivers having difficulties to perceive the road or to position their vehicle, or more generally having a hazardous or erratic trajectory compared to their circulating lane in rural roads. In order to achieve this target, the research project ROADSENSE aims: • To propose a functional framework of road safety based on a review of the art and on the identification of the stakes and the rural road crashes mechanisms, • To characterize and to identify the sound and vibrations of existing alert lines • To conceive and validate relevant sound signals (sound) from psychoacoustics surveys on a panel of users, to recreate the on a numerical synthesizer • To implement the sound and vibration signs on a driving simulator, to set up reference scenarios • To experiment the efficiency and the acceptability of alert lines by audio-tactile delimitation of the driving lane from surveys on panels of users (i) on a driving simulator, (ii) on a test track and (iii) on open roads • To define and develop tools and methods enabling to evaluate the efficiency of the road devices from 3 roads test sites locally equipped in order to prepare an applicative research project (FUI). The efforts on the encoding of sounds and vibration to conceive audio tactile alert lines will offer a great opportunity to validate rigorously new low cost driving assist systems, that can be deployed on a short term and that should answer to the needs of the whole park of existing vehicles on the roads infrastructures.

The safety of powered two wheelers (PTW) plays an important role for the public authorities and the road managers. Globally speaking, since 2002, even the road safety has eventually increased but still the num of accidents involving the PTW are at high. If we look at the figures: PTW represent only 1 % of the total traffic but 28 % of the persons killed on the road. The risk of getting killed on a motorcycle is 24 times more than on a car. Since past few years, there has been a notably significant rise in the number of PTW but it is allowed a lack of data and information on PTW use and the interactions of PTW with the other road users and the road infrastructure. The state of the art conducted in 2009 showed that there is no technical solution as such that can be adapted to measure of the traffic of this specific category of vehicle (unlike the cars and the trucks) and the research development in this domain isn’t much active which is an issue of concern. The project METRAMOTO aims not only to detect and follow the PTW in the traffic to get enough measurers to be used to the relative statistics with the circulation of PTW but also to identify the trajectory of PTW to analyze their interactions with the others vehicles. These objectives deal the mobility, the road operation and the road safety. These tools will be developed around several sensors technologies used in the domain of road traffic. The work will be realized by distinguishing the ones who need intrusive intervention on the road infrastructure (hybrid sensor piezo-electric + electromagnetic loop and magnetometers) to the one non-intrusive (image analysis and laser range finder). The companies in partnership for the project will implement the results of this research works and thereof having short-term industrial solutions. With the help of road managers, we will evaluate and compare the results. The output in order to get an overview of the technology developed with respect to the objective to be attained so that one is capable of targeting the proper field of application of each of these technologies