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Technical Session 2.3 - Freight

Thursday, October 5 14:30 - 18:00
Chair: Mr. Martin Ruesch, Chair of PIARC TC 2.3 on Freight, Switzerland
Room: South Hall 3AB, 3rd floor

This session will share the results, findings and recommendations of the work completed by the PIARC TC 2.3 Freight on the following topics:

  • Best practices, monitoring and regulation to reduce overloading and associated infrastructure damage on road networks
  • Greening of freight transport
  • Application of emerging technologies in freight transport and logistics

Overloaded trucks, non-compliance or poor vehicle conditions, driver fatigue and speeding remain main challenges in road freight transport, especially also in Low-Middle-Income Countries (LMIC). These issues can cause severe road safety problems, substantial damage to the road infrastructure and environmental impacts. In a first part of the session the challenges, suitable approaches and good practices mitigating truck overloading are presented and discussed.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will remain a significant challenge and will require the greening of road freight transport. There are increased demands from various stakeholders to identify strategies and measures to reduce the climate impact from the transport system and phase out the use of fossil fuels. Greening freight transport is presented and discussed in the second part of the session. The challenges, suitable approaches and good practices will highlight types of solutions that continues to evolve.

Innovations and advances in emerging technologies are changing the logistics and management of the freight transport system. These technologies have the potential to increase productivity, efficiency, reliability, flexibility, safety, sustainability, and economic benefits. A discussion of emerging technologies will be included in each part of the sessions referenced above.

Besides the results of the TC 2.3 Freight work during the cycle also some very good papers are presented. They cover truck overlading and greening freight transport:

  • Reducing Overloaded Vehicles Impact on Indonesia Road Agency Cost by Design Approach
  • Sustainable urban logistics roadmaps to green freight transport
  • A self driving cycle rickshaw for autonomous urban passenger and freight transport
  • A Comparison between rail and road transport as a strategy to reduce GHG's in Mexico
  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Questions and Answers
  4. Presentations
  5. Questions and Answers, Panel discussion with speakers
  6. Conclusion

Welcome and session introduction

• Martin Ruesch, Chair TC 2.3 Freight (Switzerland)

Presentations

  • Best practices, monitoring and regulation to reduce overloading and associated infrastructure damage on road network
    • Olivier QUOY (France) - Member of TC 2.3 Freight
  • Reducing Overloaded Vehicles Impact on Indonesia Road Agency Cost by Design Approach
    • Julia AUGUSTINE (Directorate General of Highways, Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Indonesia)
    Individual Paper Individual Paper (pdf - 626KB)
  • Public Private Partnership Model of Weighbridge Operations in South Africa
    • Layton LESEANE (South Africa) - Member of TC 2.3 Freight
  • Emerging technologies to improve efficiency and productivity of road freight transport
    • Caroline MAYS (United States) - Member of TC 2.3 Freight
  • Bridge Monitoring and Data-Driven Structural Asset Management
    • Robert HEYWOOD (Department of Transport and Main Roads, Australia)
    Individual Paper Individual Paper (pdf - 3.3MB)
  • Direct enforcement of overloads: extensive full scale tests and certification procedure of WIM systems
    • Bernard JACOB (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)
    Individual Paper Individual Paper (pdf - 662KB)

Questions and Answers

Moderator: Tiffany JULIEN, Member of TC 2.3 Freight (United States)

Break

Presentations

  • The Importance of Greening Freight
    • Else-Marie MARSKAR (Norway) - Member of TC 2.3 Freight
  • Approaches for Greening Freight Transport
    • Hinko VAN GEELEN (Belgium) - Member of TC 2.3 Freight
  • Sustainable urban logistics roadmaps to green freight transport
    • Cédric BARIOU (France) - CEREMA
  • A Self-Driving Cycle Rickshaw for Autonomous Urban Passenger and Freight Transport
    • Martin MARGREITER (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
    Individual Paper Individual Paper (pdf - 523KB)
  • A comparison between rail and road transport as a strategy to reduce GHGs in Mexico
    • Juan Fernando MENDOZA SANCHEZ (Mexican Institute of Transportation, Mexico)
    Individual Paper Individual Paper (pdf - 866KB)

Questions and Answers, Panel discussion with speakers

Moderator: Tiffany Julien, Member of TC 2.3 (United States)

Conclusion

• Martin Ruesch, Chair TC 2.3 Freight (Switzerland)