High Efficiency Heavy Duty Vehicles – Technical Program (Times subject to change)
Wednesday, Nov. 30 – Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 in Troy, Michigan
Session I
Opening Session / High-Level Overview of Regulatory issues
8:30 a.m.
Assessment of Fuel Economy Technologies
Medium- & Heavy-Duty Vehicles: An Overview of
the National Academies Study
NAS Committee Chair Dr.
Andrew Brown Jr., Delphi
9:00 a.m.
DOE’s perspective on regulatory efforts to
increase fuel economy and decrease GHG
emissions for Medium- & Heavy-Duty Vehicles,
including related DOE-funded activities
Ken Howden, Vehicle
Technologies Program, U.S.
Department of Energy
9:30 a.m.
EPA and NHTSA Proposal to Reduce Greenhouse
Gas Emissions and Improve Fuel Efficiency of
Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Cleophas Jackson,
Compliance Division, United
States Environmental Protection
Agency
10:00 a.m. Networking Break
Session II Hybrids (Electric and Hydraulic)
10:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Session III
Hybrid Technology Applications in High Efficiency
Heavy Duty Vehicles
Multi-mode Heavy Duty Hybrids: Where Zero
Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Meet
Control System Strategies for High Efficiency
Heavy-Duty Hydraulic Hybrid Military Powertrains
Frontiers in Research of Hydraulic Hybrid
Propulsion: Modeling Techniques, Optimization
Frameworks, and Component-In-the-Loop
Integration
State of Technology for Heavy Duty Military
Trucks, U.S. Army TACOM
David A. Spinweber, Bosch
Rexroth
Matt Busdiecker, Eaton
Joe Redfield, Southwest
Research Institute
Zoran Filipi, University of
Michigan
Gus Khalil. U.S. Army TACOM
Luncheon
IC Engine System Technologies
2:00 p.m.
Systems Engineering Approach for the Design of
a Low Carbon, Fuel Efficient, Diesel Engine
Powertrains for Commercial Vehicles
Jeff Seger, Cummins
2:30 p.m.
Supercharged Diesels: Downspeeding with
Performance
Doug Hughes, Eaton
Corporation – Vehicle Group
3:00 p.m.
Networking Break
3:30 p.m.
William de Ojeda, Manager,
IC Engine System Technologies for high efficiency
Advanced Technologies,
heavy duty vehicles
Navistar
4:00 p.m.
INVITED: Detroit Diesel
INVITED: Detroit Diesel
Session IV Modeling & Simulation (Part I) – Zoran Filipi, Chair
Ashok Nedungadi, Principal
Modeling & Simulation for High Efficiency Heavy
Engineer, Advanced Vehicle
4:30 p.m.
Duty Vehicle Applications
Technology, Southwest
Research Institute
5:00 p.m.
Networking Reception
High Efficiency Heavy Duty Vehicles – Technical Program
Day 2 – Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 in Troy, Michigan
Session IV Modeling & Simulation - CONTINUED
Coupling Model-Based Design with Laboratory
8:30 a.m.
Experimentation to Enhance Heavy Duty Vehicle
Efficiency
9:00 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
Modeling and Simulation of Technologies to
Enhance Heavy Duty Engine and Vehicle
Efficiency for Rulemaking Support
David Smith, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory
Houshun Zhang, US EPA
Office of Transportation & Air
Quality
Networking Break
Session V
Vehicle Technologies
Vehicle Technologies to Improve Efficiency for
10:00 a.m.
heavy-duty Vehicles
Paul Johnson, Michelin
10:30 a.m.
Lightweighting Technologies for High Efficiency
Heavy Duty Vehicle Applications
Randall Scheps, Alcoa
11:00 a.m.
How a Standardized National Bridge Law could
Save 2.2 Billion Dollars a Year in Fuel
Auto Research Center LLC,
Fritz Marinko, ARC
11:30 a.m. Luncheon
Session VI Intelligent Transportation Systems
1:00 p.m.
John Deere Machine Sync, a first step towards
coordinated agricultural machines
1:30 p.m.
Automation Technology to Improve Heavy Truck
Efficiency
2:00 p.m.
Intelligent Transportation Systems for High
Efficiency Heavy Duty Vehicle Applications
2:30 p.m.
Wrap-up / Adjourn
Dr. Andrew Rekow, John
Deere Product Engineering
Center
Steve Shladover, Institute of
Transportation Studies, Univ.
of Calif., Berkeley
Joshua Johnson, Southwest
Research Institute