Loes Aarts
loes.aarts@rws.nlBio available soon...
Sean Brennan
Penn State University
318 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802
+1 (814) 863-2430
sbrennan@psu.eduDr. Sean Brennan has been an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University since 2003 and shares a joint faculty appointment with the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute. Since 1998, he has published over a dozen papers on topics ranging from systems dynamics, modeling, identification, and control; robust control; and vehicle chassis dynamics. His current areas of study include modeling and experimental validation of vehicle dynamics, human-in-the-loop experimental testing, novel sensing and hardware systems, and fault-tolerant sensing and control. In addition to being the secretary of the International Forum for Road Transport Technology, he is serving as an Associate Editor for the Automotive Control special issue in the IEEE Control Systems Technology, and is currently the Vice Chair of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Technical Committee on Automotive and Transportation Systems. Sean is the Secretary of the IFRTT.
Laszlo Bruzsa
Queensland Transport
Land Transport & Safety Division
PO Box 673 Fortitude Valley, Queensland 4066
Australia
les.z.bruzsa@transport.qld.gov.auBio available soon... David Cebon
Cambridge University, Eng. Dept.
Trumpington Street,
Cambridge CB2 1PZ
England
dc@eng.cam.ac.uk
David Cebon is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Cambridge University and a Felllow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is Director of the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium and leads Cambridge University Engineering Department´s Transport Research Group. He is the Chairman of the US National Academy of Sciences Expert Task Group on Road Traffic Data; is an invited member of International Road Congress (PIARC) Committee C1 on Road Surface Characteristics; and serves on the Editorial Boards of two international journals.
Professor Cebon´s research covers the mechanical, civil, and materials aspects of road transport engineering. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 papers on dynamic loads of heavy vehicles, road and bridge response and damage, advanced suspension design for heavy vehicles, heavy vehicle safety issues and the micromechanics of asphalt deformation and fracture. He has supervised more than 20 successful PhD projects in these areas. Professor Cebon is an international authority on vehicle-infrastructure interaction and is the author of “Handbook of Vehicle-Road interaction”, the seminal text in the field. He has received six awards from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for his research into heavy vehicles and also received the L. Ray Buckendale Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in 1993 for his work on vehicle-road interaction. Professor Cebon is the Information Officer of the IFRTT.
Rob Di Cristoforo
rob@advantia.com.au
Rob Di Cristoforo is a specialist in the performance-based design and evaluation of safer and more productive road freight vehicles. Working as a consultant from 1998 to 2006, he developed expertise in numerical modelling and field testing of the dynamics of innovative vehicle designs using the National Transport Commission (NTC) world-leading 'Performance-Based Standards' (PBS) for heavy vehicle regulation. In 2006 he joined the NTC, where he manages the PBS project and other productivity-related projects aimed at national harmonisation of heavy vehicle regulations.
Erik Dahlberg
erik.dahlberg@scania.com
Dr Erik Dahlberg is head of Field Analysis and Technical Recommendations, within Vehicle Definition department of Scania Research and Development in Södertälje, Sweden. Erik has a background in vehicle dynamics and safety and has a PhD in heavy vehicle roll stability from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH). Erik is a member of the editorial board of International Journal for Vehicle Systems Modeling and Testing and is involved in several PhD projects at KTH.
Vittorio Dolcemascolo France victor.dolcemascolo@equipement.gouv.fr
Vittorio Dolcemascolo has worked since June 2007 for the Parisian Road Directorate (DIRIF – DIrection des Routes d’Ile de France) as a research and development manager for traffic safety and fluidity.
He worked for in the Division for Road Operation, Signaling and Lighting between 2000-2005 of LCPC (The French Road and Bridge Laboratory). He was the head of the 'Road Operation and Equipment Unit'.
He graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne. He has been working for 15 years in the field of Weigh In Motion (WIM). especially in the design of Multi-sensor WIM systems. He is a specialist in pavement design, evenness measurement, weigh in motion and vehicles dynamics. He was involved in National and European projects like ARCOS (Action de Recherche pour une COnduite Sécurisée), dedicated to truck safety as a coordinator and the european project Heavyroute.
Klaus-Peter Glaeser Germany
glaeser@bast.deDr Klaus-Peter Glaeser is head of the section “Vehicle Pavement Interaction” in the “Department of Automotive Engineering” at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) in Germany. He has joint BASt 25 years ago. As German expert he worked in the COST Action 334 (wide single tyres vs. twin tyres) of the EU and he has wide experience in tyre road interaction issues (rutting, noise, friction, rolling loss). Safety and environmental tasks are the main topics of his research work launched by the Ministry of Transport, the EU or the automotive industry. Since 2004 Klaus-Peter is member of board of the IFRTT.
Bernard Jacob
LCPC
58 Boulevard Lefebvre Paris Cedex Paris 75732
France
jacob@lcpc.frBio available soon...
Mårten Johansson
marten.johansson@akeri.se
Mårten is director of Technical Affairs at SA, the Swedish Association of Road HaulageCompanies in Stockholm, Sweden. Mårten is chairman of the Nordic Road Association Vehicles and Transports, chairman of The Swedish Standards Institute, SIS TK 250Transport Services, and member of the Commission on Technical Affairs (CIT) of the IRU.
At the SA Mårten provides advice and information to transport companies on technical matters, transport economics, quality and environmental issues and do lobbying in these areas. He is auditor for certification of transport companies with quality and environmental management systems and has managed road safety projects for HGVs, e.g. voluntary brakes tests, load securing, overloading, front-wheel tyre explosions, trailer hitches, etc.
Dom Kalasih
dom.kalasih@shell.com
Dom Kalasih is based in Wellington, New Zealand and is Senior Adviser (Vehicle Safety) with the Ministry of Transport. The Ministry is government's principal transport policy advisor, covering sea, land and air. Transport policy development is underpinned by government's transport strategy that has the following objectives: assisting economic development; assisting safety and personal security; improving access and mobility; protecting and promoting public health; and ensuring environmental sustainability.
Dom's role is focussed on providing government with advice on light and heavy vehicle safety, through regulatory and non-regulatory means. He is leading policy on the application of heavy vehicle performance based standards to improve the effectiveness of heavy vehicles' contribution to the New Zealand freight task. Dom also has a strong interest include heavy vehicle speed management.Anders Lundstrom
Scania-RTF
Scania
Feasibility studies, Vehicle definition
SE-151 87 Soedertaelje, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 553 82906
anders_a.lundstrom@scania.com
Anders Lundström is head of Feasibility Studies, Vehicle Definition department of Scania Research and Development in Södertälje, Sweden. He has a background in solid mechanics and strength of materials. Anders is an external member of the faculty board of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH), former president of the Swedish Vehicular Engineers Association (SVEA) and nordic secretary in the working group Vehicles and Transports within the Nordic Road Association (NVF).
Anders represents Scania in the Technical Commission of the International Road Transport Union (IRU) as well as in matters of transport policy within the European Vehicle Manufacturers Association (ACEA). In June 2006 he was elected president of the IFRTT.Jacques Marmy
jacques.marmy@iru.orgJacques Marmy is an automobile engineer based in Geneva, Switzerland and holds the position of Head, Technical Affairs in the International Road Transport Union (IRU). Jacques is the Secretary of the IRU International Technical Commission (CIT) and of the IRU Group of Experts on Transport of Dangerous Goods (GEMD).
At the IRU, Jacques provides advice and information to IRU Members on technical matters as well as on quality, environmental and road safety issues and supports the IRU delegates in their lobbying activities in order to facilitate road transport worldwide, ensure its harmonious development and to improve its image. Jacques participates as IRU representative to several working groups at the UNECE Geneva in relation to the road transport (GRE, GRB, GRSG, GRRF, GRPE, GRSP, WP29 and WP15).
Paul Nordengen
CSIR Built Environment
PO Box 395 Pretoria 0001
South Africa
pnordengen@csir.co.za
Paul Nordengen is Research Group Leader for the Network Asset Management Systems group in the Built Environment Division of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) in Pretoria, South Africa.
Paul is involved with bridge management systems, heavy vehicle overload control, weighbridge systems, abnormal loads, self regulation in heavy vehicle transport, PBS initiative in SA. He holds the position of President of the SA Road Federation. Paul is the IFRTT vice president for Developing Countries.Laszlo Palkovics
Hungary
laszlo.palkovics@knorr-bremse.com
Laszlo Palkovics is working as director of advanced engineering of Knorr Bremse and as a professor at the University of Technology and Economics in Budapest. In his engineering carrier so far he has been involved in vehicle dynamics, controlled vehicle systems, modeling techniques, hybrid vehicle drives and safety systems. Currently leading a 100 engineer R&D unit in Budapest, and coordinates the world-wide pre-development activities of Knorr Bremse. Member of different scientific associations and editorial boards of journals.
Seamus Parker
seamus-p@vcr.feric.caSéamus Parker is based in Vancouver, British Columbia and is a Senior researcher (Transportation) at the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC). The Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada is a private, non-profit research and development organization whose goal is to improve Canadian forestry operations related to the harvesting and transportation of wood, and the growing of trees, within a framework of sustainable development. Séamus specializes in the analysis and testing of new heavy truck/trailer configurations specifically for forestry applications.
Christopher Penant
Michelin
Place des Carmes 63040 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 9
France
christophe.penant@fr.michelin.com
Christophe Penant is a civil engineer based in Clermont-Ferrand, France and works for Michelin in the fields of Industry Standards and Governmental Regulations.
Christophe is involved, in particular, in worldwide development of Standards and Regulations contexts facilitating the introduction of more fuel efficient tyre solutions and also in European Union-wide introduction of Euro-combis (European Modular Concept).
John de Pont
PO Box 97-846,
SAMC Manukau
New Zealand
j.depont@ternz.co.nz
Dr John de Pont is the Director of Engineering Research at Transport Engineering Research New Zealand (TERNZ) in Auckland, New Zealand. TERNZ is an organisation providing independent research services to the transport industry both in New Zealand and internationally. Its clients include government agencies, industry associations, vehicle manufacturers and individual transport operators.
John's research interests include vehicle dynamics, vehicle performance and safety and vehicle-infrastructure interaction. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems. He is also IFRTT treasurer and vice president for the Asia-Pacific region.
Hans Prem
Mechanical System Dynamics Pty Ltd
14 Browning Drive
Templestowe VIC 3106
Australia
Ph: +61 3 9841 6485
Fx: +61 3 9841 4363
hans@msdynamics.com.au
www.msdynamics.com.au
Dr Hans Prem is a Senior Consultant and co-Director of the engineering consulting company Mechanical System Dynamics Pty Ltd (MSD) based in Melbourne, Australia. Through MSD Hans provides independent specialist technical services and support to a wide range of government and private industry sector interests (locally and overseas) in the areas of heavy vehicle safety performance, stability and dynamics, vehicle/infrastructure interactions, and road surface unevenness measurement and interpretation. Hans has a Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and he is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia.
David Rolland
Senior Consultant - Transport
Level 5, 66 Smith Street, Darwin NT 0800 Australia
T 61 8 8982 0104
F 61 8 8981 1075
david.rolland@ghd.com.au
http://www.ghd.com.auDavid Rolland is Senior Consultant – Transport with GHD. GHD is an international professional services company, which serves the global market sectors of Infrastructure, Transportation, Mining & Industry, Defence, Property & Buildings and the Environment. GHD was established in 1928 and today is ranked in the world’s top 30 engineering and architecture companies.
David is a Civil Engineer with over 30 years experience working in the private sector and government agencies. He has worked on a number of projects in Australia, mainly in infrastructure and transport areas. He recently worked with the National Transport Commission, which is an independent body formed to lead transport reform in road and rail in Australia.
In addition to his engineering qualifications, David has postgraduate qualifications in management.
Peter Sweatman
Roaduser Systems Pty. Ltd.
76-80 Vella Drive Sunshine 3020
Australia
sweatman@umich.edu
Dr Peter Sweatman is based in Ann Arbor MI and is Director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). UMTRI carries out programs in truck safety, dynamics, compliance, ergonomics, field of view and driver behaviour. Large scale naturalistic studies of crash avoidance and driver assist systems are a speciality. Peter serves on the SAE Truck and Bus Council and is Editor of the SAE Commercial Vehicle Transactions Journal.
John Alexadre Widmer
University of Sao Paulo, EESC
Av. Dr. Carlos Botelho 1465 Sao Carlos SP 13560-250
Brazil
widmer@usp.brDr. Widmer is a Professor of Transportation Engineering at the University of Sao Paulo – Sao Carlos Campus. He holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineering with an Msc and Phd in Transportation Engineering.
Prof. Widmer´s research interests cover distinct areas: logistic systems modelling, multi modal cargo transport and the compatibility of longer and heavier trucks on the Brasilian road network. He has supervised more than 20 successful PhD and Msc projects in these areas. Prof. Widmer acted, from 2000 to 2004, as the Technical Supervisor of a nationwide committee to study Vehicle Weights, Dimensions and Combinations with the goal to establish technical references for new legislation on the subject in Brasil.John Woodrooffe
University of Michigan
2901 Baxter Road
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2150
Phone:
+1 (734) 763 6076
+1 (734) 764 2640
USA
jhfw@umich.eduMr. Woodrooffe is a Research Scientist and Director of the Transportation Safety Analysis Division of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. He is responsible for the Center for National Truck Statistics which conducts nationwide surveys of Trucks Involved in Fatal Accidents (TIFA) and Buses Involved in Fatal Accidents (BIFA); the Transportation Data Center which produces Automated Data Access and Analysis System (ADAAS), the Michigan Traffic Crash Facts report, and provides Internet access to Michigan data; and the Statistical Analysis Group which performs analytical modeling and conducts research using advanced statistical methods for road and vehicle safety analysis.
Mr. Woodrooffe is an expert in large vehicle transport safety, efficiency and risk analysis including, vehicle dynamics, accident reconstruction, vehicle productivity, regulatory issues, energy use and environmental factors.
PAST BOARD MEMBERS ARCHIVE
Rod Addis
(October 16 2003)
FEHRL
Boulevard de la Woluwe 42, Bruxelles 1200
Belgium
fehrloffice@compuserve.com
John Edgar
National Road Transport Commission
PO Box 13105 Law Courts Victoria
Australia
edgarj@nrtc.gov.au
Ronald Henny
Dutch Ministry of Transport
Public Works
PO Box 5044 Delft 2600GA
The Netherlands
r.j.henny@dww.rws.minvenw.nlBoudewijn Hoogvelt
TNO Automotive
PO Box 6033 Delft 2600JA
Phone:+31 (15) 269 6411
The Netherlands
hoogvelt@wt.tno.nl
Chris Kampfraath
The Netherlands
chris.kampfraath@minvenw.nl
Bohdan Kulakowski
Pennsylvania State University
U.S.A
Lynn Sleath
Transit New Zealand
PO Box 5084 Wellington 6001
New Zealand
lynn.sleath@transit.govt.nz
George Stamatinos
Saskatchewan Highways & Transportation
1855 Victoria Avenue Regina Saskatchewan S4P 2G8
Canada
gstamatinos@highways.gov.sk.ca
Geoff Walsh
Corner of Allens Road & Zelanian Road
PO Box 58834 East Tamaki, Greenmount Auckland
New Zealand
Chris Winkler
University of Michigan Transport. Res. Institute
2901 Baxter Road Ann Arbor MI 48109-2150
U.S.A
cbw@umich.edu