AUTOMOTIVE | RAILWAY | LOGISTICS | NEW MOBILITY
OUR RESEARCH YOUR INNOVATION SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE | INNOVATION SUPPORT | NUMERICAL SIMULATION | DEMONSTRATORS & TESTS
OUR RESEARC YOUR I ➔ Inventing new forms of mobility for people and goods. ➔ Increasing the safety, security, and reliability of vehicles and infrastructure. ➔ Improving energy efficiency and limiting pollution. Science and our research are now able to provide concrete, effective answers to these three major mobility challenges. Cisit brings together research from most of the scientific institutes and organizations in France’s Nord Pasde-Calais region to address the issues involved in sustainable transportation and mobility. Cisit is a creator, possessor, and major promoter of new scientific knowledge, with about 400 researchers, engineers, and technicians. Its research has spurred real innovations in the automobile, rail, logistics, and ”new mobility” sectors. That research is also making transport operators and businesses, communities, and government agencies more competitive.
For All Transportation and Mobility Stakeholders
The science available at Cisit enables transportation and mobility stakeholders to anticipate, launch, and accelerate the development of new technologies and breakthrough innovations. It covers multidisciplinary fields that go hand-in-hand—like infrastructure, vehicles and rolling stock, networks, and telecommunications—for the benefit of transport operators and manufacturers.
FOR AUTO AND RAIL
- Maximize the accessibility, ergonomics, and comfort of vehicles - Develop connectivity and artificial intelligence - Make vehicles safer - Improve the energy efficiency of vehicles and propulsion systems - Speed up time-to-market
FOR LOGISTICS AND FREIGHT
- Develop “smart freight” - Improve the performance of bulk transport - Streamline and decarbonize urban logistics - Integrate multimodal systems
FOR NEW MOBILITY
- Enhance and improve the passenger experience - Develop multimodal transport - Guide public investment and regulation
A NEW CATALYST FOR DEVELOPMENT For the Nord Pas-de-Calais region, France, and Europe, Cisit’s scientific work is an enabler of growth. It encourages the creation and establishment of innovative businesses and the innovations among transport operators. Cisit boosts investment in R&D and spurs the emergence of new research teams.
RCH INNOVATIONS Diverse, Cross-Disciplinary, Collaborative Science
Cisit is based on a collaborative research model that removes barriers and serves multiple disciplines. It combines the scientific excellence of research teams in the fields of Ground Transportation. This multidisciplinary nature is a unique asset in the world of mobility research, and clears the way for studying the mobility of people and goods.
MECHANICS
- Flowcontrol - Crash Impact Durability - Materials engineering - Frictional contact - Biomechanics and safety
AUTOMATION
- Human-Machine Cooperation - Optimal command laws - Supervision
ELECTRONICS
- Micro-sensors and actuators - Electromagnetic compatibility - Connectivity and mobility - Non destructive testing
HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES - Psychology and cognitive ergonomy - Sociology
COMPUTING
- Meta-heuristics | Genetic algorithms - Optimization and operational research - Human-Machine Interface - Embedded systems - Artificial intelligence - Mobile services
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researchers, engineers, and technicians
international awards demonstrators and prototypes developed
An International Scientific Player
Today, Cisit is one of the most active and influential international scientific players worldwide in the mobility industry.
COMPONENTS University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis University of Lille, University of Artois Ecole Centrale Lille / Arts et MĂŠtiers ParisTech Mines Douai Research organizations: CNRS / IFSTTAR / ONERA Technical development centers C3T Valutec / CRITT M2A
Cisit’s research programs are guided by a global, comprehensive vision of the biggest issues in mobility. With the expertise of our teams, the scientific challenges we face, and the demands of the market and public policies, our research focuses on the most pressing matters in the field.
OUR STRATEG YOUR C The Human Factor in Transportation: Autonomy, Protection, and Safety for All YOUR CHALLENGES
OUR STRATEGIES
- Improving passenger safety - Reducing the number and severity of accidents - Adapting vehicles and security systems to suit the elderly, people dependent on care, and people with disabilities - Ensuring the comfort and accessibility of vehicles
- Designing and evaluating driver assistance systems - Developing new security and control systems that are safer and more cost-effective
Optimizing Mobility Systems and Logistics YOUR CHALLENGES
OUR STRATEGIES
- Optimizing industrial supply chains - Making transport infrastructure secure - Developing new forms of urban mobility (multimodal transport, car-sharing, parking, etc.) - Increasing transportation capacities
- Inventing and testing new mobility assistance systems - Rethinking new multimodal logistics: Bulk transport, urban logistics, multimodal platforms, etc. - Improving product and service lifecycle management (PLM) - Developing predictive maintenance tools for rail and auto - Setting up tools to evaluate the new mobility systems
GIES CHALLENGES New Materials and Structural Concepts YOUR CHALLENGES
OUR STRATEGIES
- Making lighter vehicles - Downsizing propulsion systems -L owering noise and pollution - I ncreasing the energy efficiency of engines -O ptimizing the recycling materials
- Characterizing and modeling new materials and ways to assemble them: Polymers and composites, elastomers, metal alloys, ceramics, glass, and biosourced materials - Developing, characterizing and modeling multifunctional and ÂŤsmartÂť materials - Integrating the characteristics of new materials into numerical simulations
Vehicle Function Design and Performance YOUR CHALLENGES - I mproving the availability, quality of service, and safety of mobility systems. -D eveloping selfdriving vehicles
OUR STRATEGIES - Integrating information technology into vehicles (communications, positioning, monitoring) - Incorporating alternative energy - Automating and securing traffic management systems - Optimizing external aerodynamics - Increasing the energy efficiency of powertrains
Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility to Meet Economic, Legal, and Social Needs YOUR CHALLENGES
OUR STRATEGIES
- Developing new mobility solutions - Setting up the most favorable legal and economic frameworks for mobility development
- Measuring the economic wellbeing afforded by mobility and accessibility - Modeling the impacts of new sustainable transportation solutions - Evaluating the adaptation of international legal standards to economic and social environments
Information Technology and Behavioral Changes YOUR CHALLENGES
OUR STRATEGIES
- Growing the appeal of mass transit - Accelerating the installation of multimodal solutions for people and goods
- Evaluating the impacts of information technology on transportation and freight - Developing new onboard communication technologies - Integrating intelligence into transportation and freight - Optimizing the operation of multimodal exchange platforms - Facilitating the acceptability of innovative mobility solutions
OUR TOOLS YOUR PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATORS AND PROTOTYPES In order to refine technologies and allow tests to be run, Cisit develops operational demonstrators and prototypes.
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS Cisit joins collaborative research projects that enable manufacturers and operators to benefit from the scientific talents of our teams, as well as our equipment.
The research of the teams brought together by Cisit is organized to maximize its economic and technological impact. It offers businesses and research teams suitable, reactive methods for collaboration. SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE Cisit’s teams provide businesses and transportation operators with high-end, multidisciplinary scientific expertise. To address each issue that arises, Cisit employs the most appropriate experts and the most relevant forms of intervention (spot checks / assessments / testing / analyses), all with the utmost confidentiality.
PATENTS Cisit develops, formalizes, and protects many technologies in the form of patents, for both sole and shared ownership. The patented inventions allow businesses and operators to quickly integrate innovative technologies.
TESTING Cisit is home to some of the world’s most advanced test platforms. Served by expert test engineering and scientific teams that can thoroughly analyze the results, these platforms are major assets for any type of innovation project, particularly in the advanced concept approval phases.
RAIL AND ROAD DRIVING SIMULATORS
Platforms MATERIALS AND METHODS
- Plastics & Composite: drafting, shaping and recyclability - Glasses: drafting, shaping and tempering - Ceramics & coating: drafting, shaping, functionalization - Metals: optimization of machining processes, forging, rolling, foundry
THERMOMECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR
- Thermomechanical simulator - Tension-compression machines - Microhardness
CRASHES IMPACT - Hopkinson bars - Catapult - Impact drop testers
- Rail driving, in tram-train operator’s cab and rail traffic management - Road driving on 6-axle mobile platform - Software platform for evaluating ERTMS components and procedures
MULTISENSOR SYSTEM FOR OBSTACLE TRACKING AND IDENTIFICATION
- Characterization of obstacles and onboard system design - Devices for UWB obstacle detection and sensor data management - Dynamic reconfiguration for optimal resource management
PASSENGER AND USER SAFETY
- Micro-scanners and 3D scanners - Extensometer, stereoscoping monitoring, measurement sensors - Electronic driving assistance simulator
3D MOTION CAPTURE MICROTOMOGRAPHY CHARACTERIZATION
- Local three-dimensional internal characterization of materials using X-rays - Local three-dimensional observations of flows and fluids
FLOW AND AERODYNAMICS
- Wind tunnel for studying separated flows - Eiffel horizontal wind tunnel with open return - Wind tunnel for studying atmospheric flows
TRACTION – INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL
- Turbocharger testbeds - Instrument-equipped hybrid vehicle - Turbocharged hybrid and gasoline engine testbed
- Electro-optical capture system - Goniogyroscopic capture system - Electromyographic measurement system
ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY
- Echo and anechoic chambers - Long-distance power grid simulator - Testbed on table for GSM-R communications
UWB COMMUNICATIONS AND POSITIONING - UWB-RT positioning - UWB communication - Very high speed UWB communication
MIMO-OFDM COMMUNICATIONS
- Real MIMO-OFDM communication channel - Wideband polarized MIMO-OFDM channel sonar
As a collection of research labs and major technological platforms for the mobility sector, Cisit engages in targeted and multidisciplinary scientific activity to serve transport manufacturers and operators: Auto, rail, logistics, and new mobility. As an enabler of innovation and technological progress, Cisit is helping reinvent mobility, improving economic and technical performance for sustainable development.
FUNDING INSTITUTIONS
PARTNERS INSTITUTIONS AND LABORATORIES
LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201 LML UMR CNRS 8107 IEMN UMR CNRS 8520 CRIStAL UMR CNRS 9189
LGI2A EA 3926 LMCPA EA 2443 TPCIM Mines Douai IDP EA 1384
IFSTTAR COSYS & AME ONERA DAAP & DADS
TECHNICAL CENTERS
CISIT COORDINATOR
AUTOMOTIVE | RAILWAY | LOGISTICS | NEW MOBILITY Transalley Technopole - Le Mont Houy - F 59313 VALENCIENNES cedex 9 Phone: +33 (0)3 27 51 14 11 - contact@cisit.org - www.cisit.org
Credits : Alexis Chezière, Agence Tambour Battant.
Professor Eric MARKIEWICZ