{"id":19853,"date":"2026-01-20T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/?p=19853"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:35:07","slug":"akut-auf-der-trb-2026-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/akut-auf-der-trb-2026-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"AKUT at TRB 2026 in Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-block\">At this year's <a href=\"http:\/\/trb-annual-meeting.nationalacademies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" role=\"link\">TRB Annual Conference<\/a> in Washington, D.C., AKUT was represented with a booth in the conference exhibition area. The 105th Annual Conference took place from January 11 to 15, 2026, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and the Marriott Marquis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The AKUT\u00ae stand was created in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/inframatic.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" role=\"link\">Inframatic LLC<\/a>. Discussions with tunnel operators, planners, research organizations, and technology partners focused on how safety-critical incidents in tunnel operations can be <strong>detected earlier, assessed more quickly, and managed more effectively<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The TRB Annual Meeting is organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/trb-annual-meeting.nationalacademies.org)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" role=\"link\">Transportation Research Board<\/a>  (TRB), which is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Every year, the event brings together thousands of transportation experts from around the world and covers all modes of transportation in a wide-ranging technical program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In addition to its presence at the expo, a poster entitled <strong>\u201cTunnel Safety in Real Time: The Measurable Advantage of Acoustic Event Detection\u201d<\/strong> was presented in the session <strong>\u201cUsing Large Language Models for Critical Safety Event Analysis.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The poster highlighted how <strong>acoustic event detection<\/strong> can contribute to tunnel safety\u2014especially in scenarios where <strong>direct detection<\/strong> of an incident (e.g., through characteristic noise signatures) shortens response times and supports the rapid initiation of operational measures and emergency procedures. We were able to show that <a href=\"http:\/\/akut-tunnel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" role=\"link\">AKUT\u00ae<\/a> can trigger an alarm in the control room very early on\u2014about <strong>one second after the event<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TRB 2026 provided a valuable platform for bringing together operational requirements, current research approaches (including LLM-based safety analyses), and practical experience from real-world deployments. The numerous discussions and feedback from the community will be incorporated into the further development of AKUT\u00ae and future cooperation projects.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auf der diesj\u00e4hrigen TRB-Jahrestagung in Washington, D.C., war AKUT mit einem Messestand im Ausstellungsbereich der Konferenz vertreten. Die 105. Jahrestagung fand vom 11. bis 15. Januar 2026 im Walter E. Washington Convention Center und im Marriott Marquis statt. Der Stand von AKUT\u00ae wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit Inframatic LLC realisiert. Im Mittelpunkt der Gespr\u00e4che mit Tunnelbetreibern, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":19856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","institutes-digital","business_areas-mobilitaet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19853"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19869,"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853\/revisions\/19869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joanneum.at\/digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}