The competition for 100 sponsored places to the TRA2008 conference opens on January 15, 2008 at 12:00 (noon) GMT+1. The primary criteria will be speed of registration!
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COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technical research) invites proposals for new Actions contributing to the scientific, economic, cultural or societal development of Europe. It is announced that proposals playing a precursor role for other European programmes involving young groups’ ideas are especially welcome.
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of International Programs has released a case study that explores the Netherlands weigh-in-motion (WIM) data management system that it uses to support a broad array of vehicle weight regulation and enforcement activities, as well as long-term planning and decision-making.
Co-organised with the LCPC on behalf of the French Ministry of Research, a workshop on Intelligent Highways - expectations and requirement will be held on 25th Oct 2007
The venue is La Maison de l'Automobile - 46 blvd de la Woluwe - 1200 Bruxelles - Belgium (which is adjacent to the FEHRL offices)
LCPC has been putting on line an electronic version of its scientific journal : the Bulletin des Laboratoires des Ponts et Chaussées. All articles published in the Bulletin des laboratoires des ponts et chaussées (BLPC) scientific journal may now be consulted in both their French and English versions on the LCPC Website.
Starting September 2007, FEHRL institutes active in Weigh-in-motion (WIM) R&D have joined forces in a new FEHRL project: FiWi.
Since the early 90's there have been considerable developments in the field of Weigh-in-Motion in Europe. Interesting results have been achieved by cooperation in international projects like DIVINE, COST-323, WAVE, Top-Trial and Remove.
One of the aims of the FiWi project is to implement the key recommendations of the Remove project.
The new President Claude Van Rooten, Vice -Presidents Helen Riddervold and Andra¾ Legat and the Treasurer Peter Maurer formally took office on the 1st of July 2007. This followed the elections of the recent General Assembly.
Martin Pipa from CDV joined the FEHRL Office at the beginning of June 2007. He is assigned a four-month secondment to learn about our activities in Brussels and work with fellow project managers and research developers. The training is part of the FP6 CERTAIN project and he will work closely with the European Commission.
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