Sunday, February 20
12:00-18:00: Registration - ISC meeting (16:30, for members only)
18:00: Reception Buffet
Monday, February 21
8:30: Registration
9:00: Opening and Welcome - Chia-Pei CHOU (chair of ICWIM4)
9:20: Introductory Session (EJ. O'Brien)
JACOB Bernard, Eugene O'Brien
WEIGH-IN-MOTION: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE (30 mn)
GARDNER Mark, Ralph Gillmann
NORTH AMERICAN WEIGH-IN-MOTION ACTIVITIES (25 mn)
KONIDITSIOTIS Chris, C. D'Souza
STATUS AND USE OF WEIGH-IN-MOTION IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (25 mn)
CHOU Chia-Pei
WIM IN ASIA (20 mn)
11:00: Coffee break, poster and exhibition visit
11:30: Session 1a: WIM Technology and Testing (B. Ostrom, R. Karoumi)
LABRY Delphine, Victor Dolcemascolo and Bernard Jacob
MS-WIM ARRAYS DESIGN OPTIMISATION (20 mn)
GONZALEZ Arturo, Eugene J. O'Brien
THE USE OF FUNCTIONAL NETWORKS TO OPTIMISE THE ACCURACY OF MULTIPLE-SENSOR WEIGH-IN-MOTION SYSTEMS (20 mn)
LABRY Delphine, Victor Dolcemascolo, Bernard Jacob and Daniel Stanczyk
PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS FOR WEIGH-IN-MOTION SYSTEMS: SENSOR BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (20 mn)
OPITZ Rigobert, Reinhard Kühne
IM (Integrated Matrix) WIM SENSOR AND FIRST TRIALS (15 mn)
Questions and discussion (15 mn)
13:00: Lunch
14:30: Session 1b: WIM Technology and Testing (B. Ostrom, R. Karoumi)
ŽNIDARIC Aleš, Igor Lavric and Jan Kalin
NOTHING-ON-THE-ROAD AXLE DETECTION WITH THRESHOLD ANALYSIS (15 mn)
O'BRIEN Eugene J., D. Dunne, Biswajit Basu and Arturo Gonzalez
BRIDGE WIM SYSTEMS WITH NOTHING ON THE ROAD (NOR) (15 mn)
OJIO Tatsuya, Kentaro Yamada
BRIDGE WIM BY REACTION FORCE METHOD (15 mn)
LING YU, Tommy H. T. Chan and De-yi Xu
MOVING FORCE IDENTIFICATION: PRACTICE AND REVIEW (15 mn)
LABRY Delphine, V. Dolcemascolo, B. Jacob, F. Romboni
PERFORMANCES OF A LS-WIM SYSTEM BY TESTING (15 mn)
ABERKROMBIE R.K., D.L. Beshears, M.B. Scudiere, J.E. Coats Jr., F.T. Sheldon, C. Brumbaugh, E. Hart and R. McKay
WEIGH-IN-MOTION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AT THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (10 mn)
Questions and discussion (10 mn)
16:00: Coffee break in the exhibition hall
16:30: Session 2: Railway WIM (A. Žnidaric, V. Dolcemascolo)
LILJENCRANTZ Axel, Raid Karoumi
AN IMPLEMENTATION OF BRIDGE WEIGH-IN-MOTION FOR RAILWAY TRAFFIC (15 mn)
GRAAF H-J de, EJJ de Jong and M. van der Hoek
GOTCHA: COMPACT SYSTEM FOR MEASURING TRAIN WEIGHT AND WHEEL DEFECTS (15 mn)
DEN BUURMANN G., W. van Minderhout
QUO VADIS: THE DEVELPOMENT OF A MEASURING SYSTEM FOR PRORAIL (15 mn)
DOLCEMASCOLO Victor, HJ de Graaf
PERFORMANCE OF A RAILWAY TRAIN WIM SYSTEM (15 mn)
Questions and discussion (5 mn)
17:45: close
18:30: Conference Banquet
Tuesday, February 22
9:00: Session 3a: WIM data quality, application to traffic management and road safety (B. Jacob, C. Koniditsiotis)
POULIKAKOS Lili, K. Heutschi, P. Anderegg, R. Calderara, E. Doupal, R. Siegrist and MN Partl
DETERMINATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OG FREIGHT VEHICLES (20 mn)
VAN SAAN Hans, D van Boxel and Roland van Doorn
VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION: A NEW APPROACH (20 mn)
JAGAU Reinhard, E. Doupal
ADVANCED SYSTEM SOLUTIONS FOR NEW WIM APPLICATIONS (15 mn)
MAEDER Claude, Don Humer
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF DATA TO ESTIMATE THE TREND OF WIM SYSTEMS (15 mn)
Questions and discussion (20 mn)
10:30: Coffee break in the exhibition hall
11:00: Session 3b: WIM data quality, application to traffic management and road safety (B. Jacob, C. Koniditsiotis)
OSTROM Barbara K.
VALIDATION OF A WIM SMOOTHNESS INDEX DERIVED FROM PROFILES COLLECTED BY INERTIAL PROFILERS (20 mn)
CHOU Chia-pei, Yi-Hsien Chen
PLANNING AND TESTING OF INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION AND WEIGH-IN-MOTION ON FREEWAY (15 mn)
CHANG Chien-Yen, Yun-Ling Liang and YunLing Chang
DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION AND ELECTRONIC SCREENING ON FREEWAY (15 mn)
Questions and discussion (10 mn)
12:00: Lunch
13:30: Session 4: Use of WIM data as a tool for enforcement (CP. Chou, H. van Loo)
VAN LOO F.J., R.J. Henny
REMOVE, REQUIREMENTS FOR ENFORCEMENT OF OVERLOADED VEHICLES IN EUROPE (20 mn)
STANCZYK Daniel, Yves Marchadour
OVERLOADED VEHICLES SCREENING (20 mn)
VAN LOO Hans, G. Visser
VEHICLE FOR DYNAMIC CALIBRATION OF A MULTIPLE-SENSOR WIM SYSTEM (20 mn)
DOLCEMASCOLO Victor, Daniel Stanczyk and Delphine LABRY
AUTOMATIC OVERLOADING CONTROL TEST SITE IN FRANCE (20 mn)
DER T., Brian Taylor and G. Wallis
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE LOADING IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT (15 mn)
Questions and discussion (20 mn)
15:30: Coffee break in the exhibition hall
16:00: Panel Discussion 1: Use of WIM data as a tool for enforcement (CP. Chou, R. Henny)
with: Mark Gardner (Fugro Consultants LP, USA), Bernard Jacob (LCPC, France), Chris Koniditsiotis (Austroads, Australia), Hans van Loo (DWW, The Netherlands), Ralph Meschede (BAST, Germany)
17:30: close
Wednesday, February 23
8:45: Session 5: Application of WIM to infrastructures (pavements and bridges) (L. Poulikakos, A. Gonzalez)
RAAB Christiane, Manfred N. Partl and Adrian Partl
MONITORING TRAFFIC LOADS AND PAVEMENT DEFORMATIONS ON A SWISS MOTORWAY (20 mn)
GETACHEW Abraham, Eugene J. O'Brien
SIMPLIFIED SITE SPECIFIC MODELS FOR DETERMINATION OF CHARACTERISTIC TRAFFIC LOAD (20 mn)
JAMES Gerard
ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC LOAD EFFECTS ON RAILWAY BRIDGES USING WEIGH-IN-MOTION DATA (20 mn)
BROZOVIC Robert, Vinko Vodopivec and Aleš Žnidaric
SLOVENIAN EXPERIENCE IN USING WIM DATA FOR ROAD PLANNING AND MAINTENANCE (20 mn)
Questions and discussion (10 mn)
10:15: Coffee break in the exhibition hall
10:45: Panel Discussion 2: New applications and fields of WIM (incl. Railways) (EJ. O'Brien, G. den Buurmann)
with: Victor Dolcemascolo (LCPC, France), Gerard James (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Hendrik-Jan de Graaf (NedTrain Consulting, The Netherlands), Barbara Ostrom (MACTEC., USA), Lily Poulikakos (EMPA, Switzerland), Aleš Žnidaric (ZAG, Slovenia)
12:00: Conclusions: Eugene O'BRIEN
12:45: close
13:00: Lunch and Tour to the Lantern Festival (Chinese New Year)
