Thursday 31.5.2018
Transport Research Finland 2018
Helsinki Congress Paasitorni
Paasivuorenkatu 5 A, Helsinki
Organizers reserve the rights for any changes. Program will be in English.
08.00
Registration opens
08:30
Morning coffee
09.00
Opening and welcome
09:05
Keynote
Anne Berner, Minister for Transportation and Communications
09:20
Laser-based transport research
Professor Juha Hyyppä
Finnish Geodetic Institute and Aalto University
09:40
CIRCWASTE and UUMA3 – Alternative Materials in Planning and Procurement Processes
Project Manager Elina Ahlqvist
Environmental Geotechnics R&D, Ramboll Finland
10:00
Resarch Programme I: Life-Cycle Cost Efficient Track (TERA, ETEVÄ)
New more elastic turnouts in Finland (Riku Varis)
Verification of multibody simulation models of Finnish railway vehicles (Tiia Loponen)
Assessment of track quality using continuous track stiffness measurements (Heikki Luomala)
Tampere University of Technology (TUT)
10:20
Life Cycle Cost Efficient Asphalt pavements – Research programme
Katri Eskola
Finnish Transport Agency
10:40
Computational modelling of heterogeneity of asphalt mixtures
Daniel Castillo
Aalto University, Department of Civil Engineering
11:00
Keynote:
Infrastructure manager perspective: Research needs and implementation of results
Director Jukka Karjalainen
Finnish Transportation Agency
11:20
Poster Presentations
11:30…12:50
Lunch and Posters
12:50
A place-based model of local activity spaces & Centricity analysis of activity spaces in Helsinki area
Kamyar Hasanzadeh
Aalto University, department of Built Environment
13:10
Loading effects of heavy trucks and autonomous vehicles
Professor Pauli Kolisoja
Tampere University of Technology (TUT)
13:30
Traffic state estimation in the presence of connected vehicles
Dr. Claudio Roncoli
Aalto University, department of Built Environment
13:50
What drives the car fleet electrification?
Riku Viri
Tampere University of Technology, Verne Transport Research Centre
14:10
Trade-off between jerk and time headway as an indicator of driving style
Teemu Itkonen
Aalto University, department of Built Environment
14:30
Coffee Break
15:00
Keynote: Quick and Dirty – Do Pilots and Testbeds Challenge Research?
Director Jan Juslen
Finnish Transport Agency
15:20
Early Involvement and Integration in Construction Projects: The Beneļ¬ts of DfX in Elimination of Wastes
Heikki Halttula, University of Oulu
15:40
Integrated scheduling of preventive maintenance and renewal projects of railway and roadway infrastructures
Farzad Pargar, University of Oulu
16:00
Endnote: Infrastructure research funding on European level
Ruud Smit, Innovation Manager Europe - Mobility at Rijkswaterstaat
Ministry for Infrastructure and the Environment, The Netherlands
16:30
End of day