BESTInfra conference in Prague, 21-22 September 2017

Adam participated in BESTInfra conference in Prague. It was nicely organized conference with approx. 150 particpants from 22 countries! Open-access proceedings are available HERE (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering). Enjoy!

BESTInfra 2017 conference in Prague, 21-22 September 2017

FEHRL meeting in London hosted by TRL

Ewa and Adam participated in FEHRL meeting in London (UK). Meeting was hosted by one of FEHRL members, TRL. One of the attractions was GATEway vehicle - read more about this project HERE. It was fun!

GATEway automated vehicle

XXIX International Baltic Road Conference

Ewa and Adam participated in XXIX International Baltic Road Conference in Tallinn, Estonia. Adam was an invited speaker and he delivered a presentation on "Chemistry based methods for assessment of asphalt binder quality". They also presented a paper on "Implementation of pavement asset management with climate change aspect".

Adam, Ewa, Migle Paliukaite, and kids

International Transport Forum, OECD

Adam took part in 2-day kick-off meeting of the International Transport Forum’s (ITF’s) working group on Policies to extend the life of road assets. Meeting location was at the OECD headquarter in Paris, France. Working group chair is Loes Aarts (Senior Adviser at Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands) and there are 23 other members from all over the world. 

More on ITF at the OECD.

Adam at OECD in Paris

BCRRA Conference in Athens, Greece

Adam and Ewa participated in the 10th International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields organized in Athens on June 28-30 (http://www.bcrra2017.com/) . We had a poster presentation on "Investigation of tire-pavement noise using On-Board Sound Intensity (OBSI) system". Adam also had a presentation on "Assessment of Pavement Structures at Traffic Speed" and he also chaired a Special Technical Session on TSD on June 30.

Final Review meeting of USE-iT

Ewa participated in the Final Review Meeting of the H2020 Project USE-iT with the EC and INEA in Brussels on 23 of June. Ewa is managing WP2: User Information on behalf of IBDiM. It was a great project and we got to work in a great team of AIT, TRL, FEHRL and Maple Consulting on this project. Congratulations to all WP Leaders on successful presentations!

7th International EATA Conference

Adam took part in 7th International EATA Conference at EMPA in Dübendorf, Switzerland. Adam is a member of prestigous EATA Steering Group.

Since the inaugural meeting of EATA (European Asphalt Technology Association) in Nottingham Royal Moat House Hotel on July 6th – July 7th, 2004 took place, EATA conferences were held every two years, except on 2013, in different places like Meriden (UK), Lyon (F), Parma (I), Braunschweig (D) and Stockholm (S). Adam participated in all of them except for Parma. 8th meeting is scheduled for June 3rd–5th 2019 in Granada, Spain.