Sunday 14th entrance is from LaTrobe Street
Monday 15th 10am —
Registration
8:30am –
12 noon —
Welcome and official opening - Theatrette
3pm –
3:30pm —
Introduction - Phil Taylor, President, TIC
Defining a sustainable balance for freight in the community — Alan McKinnon, Heriot-Watt University (UK)
What do freight owners want? — Philip Lovel, Victorian Transport Association (AUS)
Freight issues in developed countries — Peter Sweatman, UMTRI (USA)
Freight issues in other regions — Paul Nordengen, CSIR, (RSA)
Panel session
10am —
10:30am –
Session 2b: Safety 1
Implementation of active steering on a multiple trailer
long combination vehicle — A. M. C. Odhams, R. L.
Roebuck, C. Cheng and D. Cebon
Session 3b: Brakes
What a difference a quarter-century makes: commercial
motor vehicle and driver — Deborah M. Freund
Truck occupant protection considerations in heavy vehicle
crashes — Peter Hart
PBS - driving safety initiatives — Sean Carlson, Mike
Robertson
12 noon —
1pm —
Session 4b: Safety 2
Driving situations analysis based on multi-models
observer: Application of risk accident of heavy vehicle
— Mohamed Bouteldja and Véronique Cerezo
Electronic work diary for fatigue management in Australia
— Shaun Talko, Kenneth Foong and Charles A Karl
Managing the risks of drowsiness in heavy vehicle drivers
— Murray Johns
Impacts of trucks on road infrastructure
— Bernard Jacob, Matthieu Bereni, Herve Guiraud
Lunch in Experimedia Lounge, including Poster Sessions from 12.30pm
Session 5b: Compliance
Session 5a: Pricing
Estimating the marginal cost of road wear on Australia’s
sealed road network — Tim Martin, Thorolf Thoresen and
Matthew Clarke
Casual Italian Dinner in Carlton
(walking distance)
2:30pm –
3pm —
Improving heavy vehicle emergency braking systems
— Jonathan Miller and David Cebon
Session 4a: Higher Capacity Vehicles 2
Road pricing in France: Pay-per-kilometre eco-tax on
heavy goods vehicles — Olivier Quoy and Bernard Jacob
5pm –
6:30pm –
Harmonised method for test of brakes on heavy
commercial vehicle — Maarten Johansson
Coffee in foyer
Fuel tax vs. road pricing with charge collection
— Olavi H. Koskinen
Monitoring results of two PBS demonstration vehicles in
the forestry industry in South Africa — Paul Nordengen
Development of the Australian Brake Balance Code of
Practice — Peter Hart
Modelling freight demand in New Zealand — John de Pont
Using exposure-based evidence to assess regulatory
compliance of productivity-permitted long trucks
— Jonathan D. Regehr, Jeannette Montufar, Peter F.
Sweatman and Alan Clayton
Break out room
Higher productivity freight vehicles: lessons of history –
a case study of B-doubles in Australia — Bob Pearson
Session 3a: Policy
Introduction of long combination vehicles in Ontario
— John R. Billing and Ron Madill
Tea in foyer
Session 2a: Higher Capacity Vehicles 1
Break out room
Estimation of the impact of long and heavy vehicles on
future European transport demand and modal split
— Kees Verweij and Igor Davydenko
Session 1: First Plenary
Balancing competing needs – key issues
Theatrette
Theatrette
Where does the growth of road freight transport end and
what can policy makers do about it? — Loes Aarts, Lóri
Tavasszy and Gerwin Zomer
Lunch in break out room
1pm —
1:30pm —
entrance is from LaTrobe Street
Pushing the policy boundaries. Regulatory accreditation
schemes, policy flexibility and options for delivering a two
track regulatory system — Christopher Walker
Intelligent Access Program update on heavy vehicle
monitoring — Chris Koniditsiotis and Charles A Karl
Dynamic analysis of on-board mass data to determine
tampering in heavy vehicle on-board mass systems
— Lloyd Davis, Jonathan Bunker, Charles Karl, David Cai
and Anthony Germanchev
Tea in foyer
Session 6: Second Plenary
Moving freight with better trucks — improved safety, productivity and sustainability — OECD/ITF report
Introduction— Jorgen Christensen, OECD/ITF (DEN)
Safety — Jeff Potter, NTC (AUS)
Performance benchmarking — Anthony Germanchev, ARRB Group (AUS)
Productivity and efficiency — John Woodrooffe , UMTRI (USA)
Regulation and compliance — Barry Moore , OneMoore Consultancy (AUS)
Key findings — Jorgen Christensen, OECD/ITF (DEN)
Panel session
5:30pm –
6:30pm –
7:30pm –
Official cocktails reception with Victorian Minister for Roads and Ports,
Tim Pallas MP, at the Investment Centre, Level 46, 55 Collins Street
Tuesday 16th
8:30am –
10am —
10:30am –
Theatrette
Break out room
Session 7: Third Plenary
The PBS experience in Australia
10am —
Coffee in foyer
Session 8a: Vehicle productivity 1
Session 8b: Pavements 1
The impact of new high productivity vehiles on the
wood chip transport task in the Green Triangle region of
Australia — Mark Brown
A South African Performance Based vehicle to transport
steel pipes — Thomas Dessein, Frank Kienhofer and Paul
Nordengen
12 noon —
Hybrid Truck Experience in Australia — Bram van der Schaar
Performance Based Standards and active vehicle stability
systems — Marcus Coleman
Nordic vehicle configuration from the viewpoint of fuel
and transport economy, emission reduction and road wear
impact — Olavi H. Koskinen
Driving assistance system for low fuel consumption of a heavy
truck:advisor system — Lydie Nouveliere, Fabien-Romain
Duval, Vincent Demeules, Fabrice Accary and Bernard Jacob
3:30pm –
5pm —
5:30pm –
7pm –
11:30pm –
Theatrette
Break out room
Session 11a: Environment 2
Session 11b: Vehicle design and technology 2
Sustainable road transport: a key component of the global
economy — Jacques Marmy
An approach to assessment of the handling performance
of straight trucks — John R. Billing and J. D. Patten
Contribution of LHVs to EU environmental policy as
calculated with COPERT IV — Tim Breemersch
Aerodynamic possibilities for heavy road vehicles – virtual
boat tail — Panu Sainio, Kimmo Killström and Matti Juhala
Estimation of truck drag forces in roll-down testing
— Peter Hart
Reducing health and safety risks on poorly maintained
rural roads — Johan Granlund
Coffee in foyer
Session 12a: Vehicle productivity 2
Session 12b: Pavements 2
Identification of localized roughness features and their
impact on vehicle durability and damage to goods
— Imen Zaabar and Karim Chatti
Optimisation of New Zealand’s heavy vehicle fleet
— Neon Taramoeroa and John de Pont
Minimizing operating costs by specifying trucks based on
operational statistics — Johan Wängdahl and Erik Dahlberg
Experimental validation of unknown inputs estimation
via high order sliding mode observer — Hocine Imine, Aziz
Benallegue and Leonid Fridman
Session 9b: Vehicle design and technology 1
entrance is from LaTrobe Street
Comparative performance of innovative quad-trailer
combinations — Adam Ritzinger
Whole-life pavement performance modelling of full-depth
asphalt pavements — William Goodrum and David Cebon
Session 9a: Environment 1
World-first standard for engine brake noise — Neil Wong
10:30am –
Control theory approach for on-board estimation and
monitoring of heavy vehicle dynamical tyre forces
— Omar Khemoudj, Hocine Imine, Mohamed Djamaï and
Bernard Jacob
Lunch in Experimedia Lounge, including Poster Sessions from 12.30pm
3pm —
8:30am –
The PBS model in Australia — Paul Sullivan, NTC (AUS)
Putting PBS into practice — David Anderson, PRP (AUS)
Manufacturers experience — Mark Johnston, Haulmark Trailers (AUS)
Customers experience — Tony Miller, Fonterra (AUS)
Road agency experience — Steve Warrell, RTA NSW (AUS)
Panel session
Tri-drive prime movers and tyre forces
— Nick Trevorrow and Luke Callaway
1pm —
Wednesday 17th
entrance is from LaTrobe Street
Performance of articulated vehicles and road trains
concerning road damage and load capacity
— Klaus-Peter Glaeser
Results from 5 years of Swedish measurements with
bridge WIM system during 2004 - 2008 — Lars Persson and
Tomas Winnerholt
12 noon —
Lunch in Experimedia Lounge
1pm —
Session 13: Fifth Plenary
Energy and environment — driving heavy vehicle policy, design and operations
Analysis of stability control systems for tractor-semitrailers
— John Woodrooffe, Danial Blower and Paul E. Green
The challenges for heavy vehicles ­— Anders Lundstrom, Scania (SWE)
Synthesizing nonstationary, non-gaussian wheeled vehicle
vibrations — Vincent Rouillard and Michael A. Sek
The wider logistical perspective — Alan McKinnon, Heriot-Watt University (UK)
Development of a roll-coupled hitch for truck/full-trailers
— Seamus PS Parker and James L. Sinnett
FORWARD: Fuel Optimised trailer Referring to Well
Assessed Realistic Design loads — Joop P. Pauwelussen,
Jeroen Visscher, Menno Merts and Rens Horn
Meeting the challenge: heavy vehicle options — David Cebon, Cambridge University (UK)
Policy options for carbon efficient heavy vehicles — Pieter Wouters, KiM (NL)
Panel session
2:30pm –
3pm —
Session 14: Concluding plenary
Balancing competing needs — the findings
Tea in foyer
Session 10: Fourth Plenary
Getting innovative vehicles on the road — experience from around the world
Canada and the US — John Woodroofe, UMTRI (USA)
Ontario experience — John Billing, NRCC (CAN)
European experience — Martin Salet, Rijkswaterstaat (NL)
Australian operators view — Paul Freestone, Freestones Transport (AUS)
Panel session
IFRTT General Assembly
HVTT11 Dinner
Queens Hall, State Library of Victoria - entrance is via Swanson Street
Tea in foyer
Leading participants from the four days of the symposium
will be chosen to sum up how to balance competing needs
in heavy vehicle transport technology
4:30pm –
5pm —
Closing address