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XXVIIth World Road Congress
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Technical Session 2.3 - Freight

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

This session shared 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 were 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 was presented and discussed in the second part of the session. The challenges, suitable approaches and good practices highlighted types of solutions that continue 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 was included in each part of the sessions referenced above.

Besides the results of the TC 2.3 Freight work during the cycle, some very good papers were also presented. These dealt with 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

Robert HEYWOOD, Australia, winner of the PIARC Prize "Road design, construction, maintenance and operation" supported by Germany, presented his paper at this session.

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Questions and Answers
  4. Presentations
  5. Questions and Answers, Panel discussion with speakers
  6. Conclusion
  7. Final Conclusions

Welcome and session introduction

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
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 729KB)
  • Public Private Partnership Model of Weighbridge Operations in South Africa
    • Layton LESEANE (South Africa) - Member of TC 2.3 Freight
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 1.3MB)

Questions and Answers

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

Break

Presentations

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)

Final Conclusions