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Appendix B: Amplifying Questions

SLOVENIA

EVENT SLO-1: Arrivals/Flights in Ljubljana; Saturday, June 17

EVENT SLO-2: Panel Meeting; Sunday, June 18/09:00-11:30; Place: Hotel Conference Room

EVENT SLO-3: Meetings/Site Visit; Monday, June 19/09:00-18:30; Place: Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG) Offices, Dimiceva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; POC: Ales Znidaric, ZAG
Program:
9:00 to 10:30—ZAG (Dr. Andraz Legat, Director), SiWIM Technology/Applications (Ales Znidaric, Robert Brozovi), AASHTO, FHWA, and CMV Size/Weight Enforcement Panel
10:30 to 10:45— Coffee Break
10:45 to 12:15—Amplifying Question Discussion
12:15 to 13:30—Cestel/SiWIM Production Facilities Site Visit
13:30 to 15:00—Lunch
15:00 to 18:00—Postojna SiWIM Site Visit

EVENT SLO-4: Working Dinner; Monday, June 19/20:00-TBD;Place: Restaurant Stara Ljubljana

EVENT SLO-5: Meetings/Discussions; Tuesday, June 20/09:00-15:00; Place:Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG) Offices, Dimiceva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; POC:Ales Znidaric, ZAG
Program:
9:00 to 12:30— Dean Herenda, State Undersecretary, Ministry of Transportation; Robert Sušanj, Head, Traffic Police, Ministry of Interior Affairs; Ljiljana Herga, Head, Sector for Road Maintenance, Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Roads
12:30 to 14:00—Lunch
14:00 to 15:00—Conclusions

EVENT SLO-6:Air Travel to Switzerland; Tuesday, June 20/18:05

SWITZERLAND

EVENT SWI-1: Meetings/Discussions; Wednesday, June 21/09:00-16:00; Place: Swiss Federal Road Administration Offices, Worblenstr 68, Ittigen, CH-3003 Bern, Switzerland; POC: Christoph Kaeser, Swiss Federal Road Administration
Program:
9:30 to 10:00—Welcome, Coffee
10:00 to 11:00—Information about FEDRO, Christoph Käser
11:00 to 12:00—Heavy Vehicle Control, Amplifying Questions, Christoph Käser
12:00 to 13:30—Lunch
13:30 to 14:30—Heavy Vehicle Control Enforcement, R. Aellen
14:30 to 15:00—Break
15:00 to 16:00—Amplifying Questions (continued), R. Aellen

EVENT SWI-2: Site Visits/Discussions; Thursday, June 22/08:30-16:00; Place: Schafisheim and Winterthur Areas; POC: Christoph Kaeser, Swiss Federal Road Administration
Program:
8:30 to 09:30—Transfer to Schafisheim (Canton of Aargau)
9:30 to 09:45—Welcome and Coffee in Schafisheim
9:45 to 11:15—R+D Project "Footprint" (L. Poulikakos), Footprint Monitoring Site Visit
11:15 to 12:00—Travel towards Winterthur
12:00 to 13:00—Lunch at Movenpick Restaurant
13:00 to 13:15—Travel to Winterthur
13:15 to 15:15—Winterthur Board of Control Site Visit

EVENT SWI-3: Air Travel to Berlin, Germany; Thursday, June 22/17:30

GERMANY

EVENT GE-1: Meetings/Discussion; Friday, June 23/09:00-12:00; Place: Offices of Toll-Collect, Linkstr 4, D-10875 Berlin, Germany; POC: Martin Rickmann, Director of Communications
Program:
9:00 to 10:00—Martin Rickmann, Status of New Toll System
10:00 to 11:00—Harald Lindlar, Satellic
11:00 to 12:30—Demonstration Tour
12:30 to 13:15—Lunch
13:15 to 14:00—Siegried Klar, Enforcement
14:00 to 15:00—Ralf Meschede, BASt—Federal Highway Research Institute
15:00 to 15:30—Q + As

EVENT GE-2: Mid-Tour Panel Meeting; Saturday, June 24/09:00–11:30; Place: Hotel Conference Room

EVENT GE-3: Train Travel to the Netherlands; Sunday, June 25/08:38

THE NETHERLANDS

EVENT NL-1: Meetings/Discussions; Monday, June 26/09:00–16:30; Place: Offices of the Dutch Ministry, Utrecht (Mobilion); POC: Hans van Loo, Road and Hydraulic Engineering Institute (DWW)
Program:
9:00 to 9:15— Hans van Saan (DWW), Welcome and Opening of the Visit
9:15 to 9:45— Jeff Honefanger (AASHTO), Julie Strawhorn (FHWA), U.S. Commercial Motor Vehicle Size and Weight Enforcement
9:45 to 10:30— Hans van Saan (DWW), Introduction to the Project Overloading and Dutch Weigh-in-Motion and Discussion
10:30 to 11:00— Coffee/Tea Break, MOBILION Exhibition Area
11:00 to 11:45— Danny van Grondelle (Dutch National Police Agency), Experience with Enforcement of Overloading using WIM as a Preselection Tool and Discussion
11:45 to 12:30— Kees Hersbach (Dutch Ministry of Transport, Freight Transport Inspectorate), Prevention of Overloading using WIM Data as a part of e-Government and Discussion
12:30 to 14:15— Lunch
14:15 to 15:15— Police Overloading Enforcement Operation Site Visit
15:15 to 16:00— Jan Kramer (National Traffic Management Centre), The Project Overloading: Cooperation among Partners to Fight Overloading and Methods for Monitoring the Results

EVENT NL-2: Working Dinner; Monday, June 26/19:00-21:00; Place: Café Diner Vlaanderen

EVENT NL-3: Meetings/Discussions; Tuesday, June 27/09:00-15:00; Place: Road and Hydraulic Engineering Institute (DWW) Offices, Van der Burghweg 1, 2628 CS Delft; POC: Hans van Loo, DWW
Program:
9:00 to 9:10— Pieter Stienstra (DWW), Welcome
9:10 to 9:45— Hans van Saan (DWW), The Use of WIM to data for Statistics and Planning, QC and Results and Discussion
9:45 to 10:30— Hans van Loo (DWW), Development of Weigh-in-Motion System for Direct Enforcement of Overloading including Calibration Vehicle and Discussion
10:30 to 11:30— Calibration Vehicle Demonstration, Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 to 12:15— Hans van Loo, Developments in the European Union; the REMOVE project and Discussion
12:15 to 13:15— Lunch
13:15 to 14:00— U.S. Cochairs, U.S. projects on WIM, Overload Enforcement and International Cooperation and Discussion
14:00 to 14:30— Govert Sweere (DWW), DWW to Experience with Participation in International (EU) Projects
14:30 to 15:00— Bert de Wit (DWW) and Mr. Jeff Honefanger (AASHTO), Julie Strawhorn (FHWA), Summary and Closing

EVENT NL-4: Ground Travel to Belgium; Tuesday, June 27/16:30-TBD

EVENT BE-1: Meetings/Discussion; Wednesday, June 28/09:00–16:00; Place: Belgian Road Research Centre (BRRC), Blvd. de la Woluwe, 42, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium; POC: Xavier Cocu, BRRC
Program:
9:30— Introduction and Tour de Table
9:35— Country, Road Network, Administrative Structure (Xavier Cocu, BRRC) Belgian Vehicles Size and Weight Rules
9:50— Goods Transportation Policies in Belgium and EU (Davy Decock, BRRC)
10:10— Weight/Size Enforcement by Federal Police: Procedure and Legislative Background (Eddy Greif, Federal Police)
10:30— Weight Enforcement by Road Inspectors in the Flemish Region: Procedure and Legislative Background (Jo Goossens, Flemish Road Administration)
10:50— Technologies in Use in Walloon Region (Xavier Cocu, BRRC); Static weighting systems; WIM System Statistical Analysis Applications
11:15— FEHRL Offices
12:00— Lunch
14:00— FEHRL Joint Research Programmes (Steve Phillips, FEHRL)
14:20— Open Discussion
16:00— Conclusion

EVENT BE-2: Ground Travel to Metz, France; Wednesday, June 28/TBD

FRANCE

EVENT FR-1: Meetings/Site Visit; Thursday, June 29/09:00–15:00; Place: Centre d'Etudes Techniques de l'Equipement de l'Est (CETE de l'Est), 1 Boulevard Solidarité BP 85230 57076 METZ Cedex; POC: Bernard Jacob, Technical Director for Road Operation and Safety, Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussees (LCPC), Victor Dolcemascolo, Head of Road Operations and Equipment Section, Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussees (LCPC)
Program:
10:00 to 10:15— Welcome—Presentation of the CETE Est
10:15 to 11:00— SIREDO Network—Discussions
11:00 to 11:15— Coffee Break
11:15 to 11:45— Preselection Results—Discussion
11:45 to 12:00— Multiple-sensor Weigh-in-Motion Planned Testing
12:00 to 13:30— Lunch
Afternoon:— A 31 Motorway Site Visits (Fays, Lesménil, Autreville)

EVENT FR-2: Meetings/Discussions; Friday, June 30/09:00–16:00; Place: Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC), 58 boulevard Lefebvre 75732 PARIS Cedex 15; POC: Bernard Jacob and Victor Dolcemascolo, LCPC
Program:
9:30 to 9:45— Welcome—Tour de Table
9:45 to 10:00— LCPC
10:00 to 10:30— DGMT, Political Aspects of Overloading in France and Control Organization
10:30 to 10:50— Control Overloading in U.S.
10:50 to 11:00— Discussion and Possible Cooperation on Overloading Controls
11:00 to 11:45— European Specification COST 323, ASTM 1318
11:45 to 12:30— Low-speed WIM for Enforcement and Model Agreement
12:30 to 14:00— Lunch
14:00 to 15:00— Bridge WIM: Tools and Testing - Discussion
15:00 to 15:30— Multiple-sensor WIM: Algorithms and Grid Design - Discussion
15:30 to 16:00— Conclusions and Prospects

EVENT FR-3: Final Panel Meeting; Saturday, July 1/09:00-16:30; Place:Hotel Conference Room

EVENT FR-4: Departures/Flights to U.S.; Sunday, July 2

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