Technical Tours – Red technical tour and Blue technical tour (depart conference venue at 10 am and concludes at 5 pm).
More information on the Technical Tours can be found here.

 Registration and delegate welcome – Informal drinks and nibbles will be held on Tuesday 12 October from 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm in the Trade exhibition area (at the Sebel Hotel Albert Park).

Trade Exhibition

Network level asset management

Stephen Day
Bridge asset management in rural and remote areas

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Douglas Judd
Toll road pavement management - planning to execution- case study

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Norbert Michel
Procurement of a new road management system for WA local government

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Neil Walker
Strategic asset management planning for major arterial road infrastructure

Pavement design

Haran Arampamoorthy
Failure probability of New Zealand pavement

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Andreas Nataatmadja
The use of hyperbolic function for predicting critical permeability of asphalt

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Brian Shackel
The design, construction and evaluation of permeable pavements in Australia

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Leigh Wardle
Advanced design of flexible aircraft pavements

Bituminous surfacings

Glynn Holleran
Bitumen chemistry using cheaper sources - an improved method of measurement by TLC-FID and the characterisation of bitumen by rheological and compositional means

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John Metcalf
Factors that influence the performance of interface shear strength of pavement interlayers

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Graham Wilson Investigations into the relationship between binder consistency/underlying viscosity and asphalt rutting

Freeway management

Ghassan
Abu-lebdeh
Assessment of consistency of the highway capacity manual results with user perceptions of LOS: a case stuffy on basic freeway segments

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John Gaffney
Monash-CityLink-West Gate upgrade project: coordinated freeway ramp signals on the M1, ‘sustaining freeway performance’

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James Luk
Automatic freeway incident detection: review of practices and guidance

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Yibing Wang
PI-ALINEA for local ramp metering involved with random downstream bottlenecks

Geometric road design

Owen Arndt Development of sight distance criteria in the Austroads guide to road design series

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Ricky Cox
Geometric road design for heavy vehicles- advancing but still a way to go

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Hamish Mackie
Lower speeds and more user-friendly streets from a self explaining roads trial in New Zealand

Workshop:
Designing an Australian Low Carbon Transport Forum (ALCTF)

This workshop will provide an update on the status of the ALCTF and provide an opportunity to scope and design the ALCTF. As part of the workshop, a series of questions will be presented seeking an informed view of how industry and stakeholders could be involved in the ALCTF, and preferred mechanism and level of involvement.

Pavement management

Peter Kadar Implementation of a corporate level pavement management system for the RTA-NSW- institutional challenges

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Putu Mandiartha Stochastic based models for low volume road (LVR) network management

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Bjarne Schmidt MIRIAM; Models for rolling resistance in road infrastructure asset management systems

Pavement materials performance

David Hazell
An investigation on roadbase materials using US Army corps of engineers gyratory testing machine

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Geoff Jameson
Assessment of rut-resistance of unbound granular base

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Terence Ian Milne Constructability aspects of ultra thin continuously reinforced concrete pavement: a full scale research (from construction to end of maintenance period)

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Gerhard van Blerk
Case studies in the use of large aggregate base layers for road rehabilitation

Asphalt

Louw du Plessis
Interim results from the California warm-mix asphalt study  

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Kota Sitaramanjaneyulu
Laboratory investigation on the performance of warm-mix based thin stone matrix asphalt mix for urban roads

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Binh Vuong
Prediction of reflection cracking resistance of reinforced asphalts

Network capacity

Ian Espada
Guidelines for selecting techniques for the modelling of network operations

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Andrew Wall
Smart roads- network operating plans

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Kamal Weeratunga
A comparative study of four network operations planning frameworks/guidelines

Road user behaviour

Russell Henk 
After graduated driver licensing, what's next? The role of peer influence in changing safety culture among young drivers

Eftihia Nathanail
Impact assessment of a mass media campaign on fatigue

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Victoria Pyta
Victorian learner monitor survey- 1999-2009

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Workshop:
Regulatory telematics

This workshop will provide an informative and thought provoking discussion on Regulatory Telematics. The workshop will discuss the emergence of telematics use, including the Electronic Work Diary, On-Board Mass Monitoring, the Intelligent Access Program, the Co-operative ITS (5.9GHz) Initiative, mass-distance-location charging and an overall national telematics strategy for heavy vehicles.

Low volume and unsealed roads

Louw du Plessis
Chemical stabilisation with non-traditional road additives- where are we after 50+ years of research? 

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Keith Linard
A system dynamics approach to gravel road maintenance management  

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Kieran Sharp
A protocol for conducting field trials for best value management of unsealed roads

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George Vorobieff
A sustainable construction practice for unsealed roads

Skid resistance

Ronald Elunai
Digital image processing techniques for pavement macro-texture analysis

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Kym Neaylon
Towards a harmonised Australian approach for managing skid resistance

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Ian Steele
Development of the slide-to-stop surface friction test using a g force (Vericom) meter in Queensland

Asphalt performance

Jorge Pais
The prediction of fatigue life of asphalt mixtures using four-point bending tests

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Paul Ritchie
A simple method of full depth asphalt pavement construction- 25-33 years of success

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Anthony Stubbs
An investigation of viscoelastic and fatigue behaviour of hot mix asphalt

Strategic planning & integrated transport systems

Julian Laufer
Integrated transport planning at all levels- the Redcliffe Seaside Village

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Lee Vien Leong Sustainable transportation indicators: case study of users from Kuala Lumpur and Penang

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Jayantha Withanaarachchi Strategic planning to protect critical transport infrastructure systems

Road safety

Hamzah Hashim
Management of road safety by Public Works Department of Malaysia – mundane routine or significant challenge?

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Amir Sobhani
Towards a microscopic approach for modelling the traffic safety of intersections

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Kathirgamalingam Somasundaraswaran
The use of road safety target setting in fatality and injury reduction

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Shane Turner
Crash prediction models for rural roads- the next generation of NZ models

Workshop: Outcome-based maintenance

Effective performance based maintenance is seen as being key to the delivery of desirable outcomes to road users, yet challenges remain on the fundamental success factors.  This workshop aims to uncover these and promote pragmatic solutions building on a decade or more of experience in the field.

Sustainable asset management

Michael Chadderton
The benefits of refining the road maintenance intervention strategy

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Caroline Evans
Identifying the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for asset management

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Tim Martin
Pavement performance, what is know and what is unknown

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Liam Terris & Jon Roberts
Sustainable road rebuilding

Pavement performance

Kota  Sitaramanjaneyulu National efforts towards management of high speed road corridors in India 

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Ian Rickards
Long term full depth asphalt pavement performance in Australia

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George Vorobieff
Long term performance of recycled granular materials in Southern NSW

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Tom Wilmot Environmental considerations in pavement design

Intelligent transport systems

Peter Cairney
Possible safety benefits from ITS in Australia

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Sandra Lennie
Best practice for variable speed limits in Australia

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Jim Whittington
Low-cost hardware speech enhancement for improved speech recognition in automative environments

Heavy vehicle behaviour and safety

Kayvan Aghabayk Understanding the lane changing behaviour of large vehicles on arterial roads

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Lori Mooren
Safety management systems for heavy vehicle transport 

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Sara Moridpour
Lane changing behaviour of heavy vehicle drivers 

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 Susi Susilawati
Petri nets in assessing risk at level crossings: the effect of heavy vehicles

Workshop: Project appraisal: Current state and future direction

This workshop will discuss a number of key methodology and application issues regarding practice of project/program evaluation in Australia; and to inform practitioners of recent developments and other work currently in progress in Australia and internationally.

Workshop:
Skid resistance: Scoping the future

This workshop will provide a summary review of current status of skid resistance management in Australia and NZ, before focusing on exploring future directions for research and operational practice.

Pavement rehabilitation and maintenance

Mason Bao & Douglas Wilson
Effectiveness of roading maintenance treatment on pavement condition

Ryan de Carteret
A review of the effects of salinity on road pavements and bituminous surfacings

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Andrew Middleton
A review of patching as a pavement maintenance tool

Structures and geotechnical engineering

Fred Andrews-Phaedonos Rehabilitation and monitori
ng of Sawtells inlet bridge- almost 20 years later

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Srijib Chakrabarti Treatment of reactive soil subgrade for pavement construction in Western Australia

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Aimin Xu
Investigation of buried piled slabs for conversion of trafficked lanes

Pollution, emissions & externalities

Louw du Plessis
Methods and measures for evaluating benefits of transportation research – synthesis of approaches and case studies

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Kota Sitaramanjaneyulu
Impact of vehicular emission norms on vehicular pollution loads in Delhi

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Robin Smit
Application of a new high resolution traffic emissions tool: impact of congestion on NO_x and CO₂ emissions

Heavy vehicle operations & technology

Steve Coleman Continuous speed monitoring tool for assessing both private and public speed compliance policies

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Lloyd Davis
Tamper evidence for heavy vehicle on board mass systems

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Graham Jacoby
Tri-drive prime movers in Western Australia

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David Ng
Development of a decision making tool for freight transport in the UAE

Workshop: The road safety decade of action: How can Australia respond?

2011 will mark the start of the Decade of Action for Road Safety (instigated by a UN resolution, and cosponsored by more than 90 countries, including Australia). This workshop will provide information on the decade of action, and to determine ways that Australia can contribute.

Road condition monitoring and management

Taleb Al-Rousan
Roughness evaluation of Jordan highway network

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Edward Baran
Laser texture calibration rig

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Richard Wix
How coarse was my texture

Pavement modelling

Matthew Byrne
A generalised approach to outlier identification in pavement condition data

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Fritz Jooste
Implementation of a fuzzy logic rule-based deterioration model for dual carriageway road networks

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David Kennedy Adding a third dimension to graphs

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Ranita Sen

Effect of increased axle mass limit on pavement deterioration rate

Traffic signals

Zarko Andjic 
Vehicle actuated vs. fixed time traffic signal phasing in microsimulation

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Paul Briedis
The accuracy of inductive loop detectors

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Ng Chai Huat
Optimisation of traffic signal efficiency using ultrasonic pedestrian detection sensor

Intersections and roadside hazards

Armana Huq
Identification of black spots on a selected segment of Dhaka-Chittagong highway: Application of interactive highway safety design module (IHSDM)

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Peter McCarten
Safety proofing roadside structure assets: culvert headwall screen retrofit

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Paul Roberts
A field trial of automated measurement of roadside hazard offset

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Robert Swears
Longswamp to Rangiriri wire rope barrier: increased crash numbers but improved road safety

Workshop:
Foamed bitumen stabilisation

This workshop aims to summarise the current state-of-the-art in design, construction and performance of foamed bitumen stabilised pavements.

Road condition messurement and monitoring

Susanne Baltzer
Continuous bearing capacity profile of 18,000 km Australian road network in five months

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Pradeep Kumar
Current practices for pavement condition monitoring of road infrastructure in India

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David Kennedy
Resurfacing risk modelling

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Noppadol Piyatrapoomi
Pavement strength deterioration models

Recycling and asphalt pavement

Azhar Azmi
Challenges in design and construction of cold-in-place recycling pavements in Malaysia

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Donald Cameron
The specification of recycled concrete aggregate for pavement construction

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Binh Tran
Effects of increased reclaimed asphalt pavement on the performance of a recycled hot asphalt mix

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Binh Vuong
Field trials of constructibility and performance of recycled granular base materials with glass additive

Travel time and predictions

Andrew Somers
Post implementation review of congestion improvement projects

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Susi Susilawati
Travel time reliability and the bimodal travel time distribution for An arterial road

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David Wanty
Typical peak design hour characteristics

International road safety

Md. Mazharul Hoque
Improving highway safety in Bangladesh: road improvement and the potential application of iRap

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Rob McInerney
A world free of high risk roads

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David McTiernan & Paul Hillier
Assessing the likely road safety implications of the Samoan road switch

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Greg Smith
iRap Vietnam- a life saving partnership

Workshop:
Moving towards road freight efficiency

Australian road freight operators are always on the move and are driving Australia towards improved efficiency and large productivity gains. The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator provides an opportunity for national consistency. This workshop will explore the needs of industry and steps required to improve freight efficiency nationwide.