International Conference on Weigh-In-Motion ICWIM 6

International Conference on Weigh-In-Motion : ICWIM6 (organized with NATMEC 2012)

Information and registration http://iswim.free.fr/icwim6 The ICWIM6 is organized jointly with NATMEC2012. ICWIM6 will consist of a series of sessions in parallel with the NATMEC2012 sessions. Registered delegates may attend any session of ICWIM6 or NATMEC2012. The complete ICWIM6 registration is available at: http://iswim.free.fr/icwim6 ICWIM6 registration includes all ICWIM6 and NATMEC 2012 sessions and in addition: 1. ICWIM6 package: Monday lunch and coffee break, delegate bag and electronic proceedings, 2. Conference dinner on Tuesday evening, 3. Paper proceedings, published by ISTE & J. Wiley. The additions may be purchased separately. Registration for only the last three days is available on the NATMEC2012 website: www.natmec.org .

Early bird registration will begin on Feb. 1st 2012, end on 7nd March 2012. Advance registration will end on 7nd May 2012. A special rate is available at the conference hotel, the Fairmont Dallas (http://www.fairmont.com/dallas); ask for the TRB rate. Please register online with either conference. If you are active or interested in WIM, you are invited to join the International Society for Weigh-in-Motion (ISWIM) http://iswim.free.fr. It is free of charge for individuals. Companies must pay a low annual fee to become members of the vendor college, and get a company (vendor) web page on the ISWIM web site For more information please contact: Mr Bernard Jacob (ISWIM) Email: [email protected] Fax: +33 1 40 43 65 20 or Mrs Anne-Marie McDonnell (CT-DOT, USA) Email: [email protected]

Dallas, Texas June 4 - 7, 2012 Final announcement

International Scientific Committee WIM Bernard Jacob (chair) France Eugene OBrien (vice-chair) Ireland Anne-Marie McDonnell (vice-chair) United States Chia-Pei Chou Taiwan Morris De Beer South Africa John De Pont New Zealand Victor Dolcemascolo France Mark Gardner United States Ralph Gillmann United States Jerry Hajek Canada Tom Kearney United States Chulwoo Kim Japan Chris Koniditsiotis Australia Jesus Leal Spain Hans van Loo The Netherlands Ralph Meschede Germany Lily Poulikakos Switzerland Aleš Žnidarič Slovenia + Franziska Schmidt (proceedings co-editor)

NATMEC -

Improving Traffic Data Collection, Analysis, and Use

Hosts: International Society for Weigh-In-Motion (ISWIM) Texas Department of Transportation (DOT) Transportation Research Board (TRB) Federal Highway Administration (FWHA)

Conference Organising Committee Anne-Marie McDonnell (chair) Mark Gardner David Jones Tom Kearney Tom Palmerlee Deborah Walker Bernard Jacob Lily Poulikakos

United States United States United States United States United States United States France Switzerland

Conference Website: http://iswim.free.fr/icwim6/ Version 1.0 –

January 2012

About the Conference

Topics

Venue

The 6th International Conference on Weigh-In-Motion (ICWIM6) will be combined with NATMEC’2012, the North American Traffic and Monitoring Exhibition and Conference, on Improving Traffic Data Collection, Analysis, and Use. ICWIM have been held every three or four years since 1995, in Zűrich, Lisbon, Orlando, Taipei and Paris. NATMEC are held every two years, in North America. In 2012, ICWIM6 will be held in Dallas, Texas, as a series of dedicated sessions in parallel with the NATMEC2012 sessions, which will form a self-content conference. A few common plenary sessions will welcome keynote papers. Registration will be done for both conferences at once and delegates will be allowed to attend any session. Some options will be offered by ICWIM6 to the delegates. The conference is designed to address the broad range of technical issues related to heavy vehicles, surface transport and weight and size measurement systems, providing access to current research and best practices, freight analysis, and related policy issues. It is a multidisciplinary, inter-agency supported event.

The conference will cover all the topics concerning weigh-in-motion (WIM):

The conference will be held at The Fairmont Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America.

Objectives • Provide an international forum for WIM technologies, WIM standards, research, policy and applications. • Facilitate the meeting of manufacturers and users in an exhibition of WIM systems, sensors and related technologies. • Review new developments since the last International conference (ICWIM5).

Who Should Attend • Manufacturers, vendors and users of WIM systems, data, or related equipments and services. • Policy makers and agencies responsible for heavy vehicle operation and control, weight and size enforcement, road infrastructures design, construction and maintenance. • Agencies that use weight information to support freight mobility, safety and road pricing. • Researchers in WIM technologies, WIM data analysis, vehicle-road interaction and freight logistics. • Students in freight transport and road infrastructures.

• WIM sensors, technologies and testing, • WIM systems, users’ perspectives, experience with WIM, • WIM standards and specifications, • WIM data quality, management and use, • Application of WIM to enforcement and toll-by-weight, • Applications of WIM to infrastructure design, maintenance and assessment, • WIM in ITS and traffic management and monitoring, and for road safety purposes.

Conference Languages The official language of the conference will be English. Final papers and posters must be provided in English, with abstracts in French (and in Spanish optional).

International Society for Weigh-In-Motion (ISWIM) – Board Bernard Jacob (chair) France Chia-Pei Chou Taiwan Morris de Beer South Africa Victor Dolcemascolo France Ralph Gillmann United States Helio Goltsman Brazil Chris Koniditsiotis Australia Anne-Marie McDonnell United States Eugene Obrien Ireland Lily Poulikakos Switzerland Hans van Loo The Netherlands Aleš Žnidarič Slovenia Vendor College representatives Alexandre Bonnes France Robert Brozovič Slovenia David Cornu Switzerland

Parallel Exhibition A showcase for manufacturers, users and related industries will be held in conjunction with the conference, jointly with NATMEC2012.

Call for Papers High quality papers and posters relevant to the conference themes are now invited. Reports of research in progress are welcome. All abstracts/papers can be submitted online at the conference website: http://iswim.free.fr/icwim6/

Schedule Submission of abstracts Acceptance of abstracts Submission of full papers Submission of revised papers

30th June 2011 30th August 2011 30th October 2011 30th January 2012

Proceedings and Awards Proceedings of the conference will be published, on CD (and paper if possible). Papers must be presented by one registered author to be published. There will awards for the best papers presented at the conference.

Fees Interested individuals are invited to attend the Conference. Early bird registration fee of US$ 490 is available to those who register before 7th March, 2012. Advance conference fee will be US$ 565 until May 7th and then US$ 640. Student fee are resp. US$ 190, 265 and 340.