Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2022-10-14
Buyer: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34928300 | 34996000 | 44113620 | 71332000 | 71351914
Estimated value: 1884204 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The main aim of the TII Research Programme is to enable TII to carry out its mission of “providing high quality transport infrastructure and services, delivering a better quality of life and supporting economic growth”. Research is one of the key ways that TII informs operational policy and sets standards. Emphasis is on:
• Implementing the research conclusions and integrating the research outputs in a timely and effective way.
The research programme covers all areas of TII responsibility including planning, design, construction, maintenance and operations.
TII are leading the way in Europe in their approach to the implementation of directive 2008/96/EC Road Infrastructure Safety Management (RISM) systems. The TII Standards and processes use targeted and proactive network safety analysis and ranking to implement and prioritise safety improvements measures. Currently these procedures use Crash Modification Factors (CMF) derived from an Accident Prediction Model (APM) developed in other countries. CMF and crash modification functions are the indicators that quantify the crash reductions that result from interventions. They are used for evidence-based safety policies and intervention decision making.
TII participated in the Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR) project called Predicting Road Accidents (PRACT) and that project developed a methodology to use the CMFs from the PRACT web database (www.pract-repository.eu). These have proven very beneficial to the TII Road Safety Programme. This programme is now maturing and local authority uptake of the TII standards has improved greatly however there are limitations to the use of CMFs from other EU states for Irish roads.
A particular limitation is that safety measures relate to treatment of countries that drive on the right and have different road layout standards to Ireland. The use of results from APM in other state should be used with care caution according to Wegman et al. (2012).
Accident Prediction Models (APM) are a highly useful tool for road authorities, road designers and road safety practitioners allowing them to quantitatively analyse potential safety issues in a road section, intersection or interchange, identify safety countermeasures and estimate the potential effect of these countermeasures in terms of crash and fatalities reduction (Yannis et al., 2016). APM are an indispensable tool for the implementation of effective cost benefit assessment methods for road safety projects, in order to quantitatively estimate benefits and the implementation of the Safe System Approach (EU, 2018).
Development of Irish specific source and propagation correction factors for incorporation into the new CNOSSOS-EU noise prediction model
Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) is a state agency in the Republic of Ireland. TII's primary function is to provide an integrated approach to the future development and operation of the national roads network and light rail infrastructure throughout Ireland. TII are responsible for the planning, maintenance and construction of National Primary Routes and National Secondary Routes. The National Roads Network totals 5,306km of road. It comprises 2,649km designated as National Primary Road and 2,657km designated as National Secondary Road. National Primary roads are numbered from M1 to M50 (N Inclusive) and National Secondary roads are numbered from N51 to N87.
Contained within the national road network are the Motorway/Dual Carriageway sections totalling 1,210km (916km Motorway and 294km Dual Carriageway), of which 328km are maintained under existing Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and 588km are maintained directly by TII through Motorway Maintenance and Renewals Contracts (MMaRC). The remaining 294km are maintained by the local authorities.
Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise (the Environmental Noise Directive – END) is the main EU instrument to identify noise pollution levels and to trigger the necessary action both at Member State and at EU level.
The END requires Member States to undertake strategic noise mapping within major agglomerations, in the vicinity of major road and rail transport corridors and around major airports. The aim of the Directive is “to define a common approach intended to avoid, prevent or reduce on a prioritised basis the harmful effects, including annoyance, due to exposure to environmental noise”.
The END has been a Statutory Instrument (S.I. 140/2006) of Irish Legislation since 2006 in accordance with the Environmental Noise Regulation 2006, amended by Commission Directive (EU) 2015/996 and revoked by S.I. 549/2018 in accordance with the Environmental Noise Regulation 2018.
The Regulations designate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the National Authority for the purposes of the Regulations. EPA's role includes supervisory, advisory and coordination functions in relation to both noise mapping and action planning, as well as reporting requirements for the purpose of the Directive.
The Regulations identify the National Roads Authority (now TII) as a Noise Mapping Body responsible for the development of strategic noise maps for all national roads carrying in excess of 3 million vehicles a year outside the agglomerations of Dublin and Cork. The relevant local authority is responsible for the development of noise maps for non-national roads. TII are also the Noise Mapping Body for major light rail services in Dublin.


Winner: TRL Limited
Award value: 1884204
Number of bids: 3