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Agenda
The UK Pavillion will offer an engaging programme of activity throughout the Congress. The UK delegation will also feature heavily in the main Congress programme.
| Sunday 6 October | ||||
| Ministerial Session Evolution of road policies for future generations | Land use planning | Michael Matheson MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Scottish Government | 11:00-17:00 | |
| Monday 7 October | ||||
| Special Project Session 1 - contribution of road transport to sustainability and economic development | Graham Pendlebury, PIARC UK First Delegate | 08:00 - 11:30 | Conference Room B | |
| Andrew Morrison, Deputy Director, Department for Transport | ||||
| Strategic Direction Session D - the untold story: infrastructure preservation | Steve Berry OBE, Head of Local Roads, Light Rail and Cableways, Department for Transport | 08:00 - 11:30 | Main Room 1 | |
| Foresight Session 3 - road infrastructure resilience - what does it mean and how resilient are we? | Nkululeko Leta, Deputy Team Leader, Cardno | 08:00 - 11:30 | Conference Room A | |
| Workshop 1. Weigh-in-motion for road infrastructure and freight transport | Steve Phillips, Secretary General, CEDR | 08:00 - 11:30 | Capital Suite 5 | |
| Strategic Direction Session B - innovative transport solutions to optimize access and mobility | Matthew Eglinton, Highways Maintenance and Innovation Policy Manager, Department for Transport | 14:00 - 17:30 | Main Room 2 | |
| Foresight Session 7 - Transport is not gender neutral: from increasing mobility to enhancing employment | Nelson Ogunshakin OBE, CEO, FIDIC | 14:00 - 17:30 | Conference Room C | |
| Sue Percy, CEO, Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) | ||||
| TF A.2 - coordination between national and sub-national authorities | ||||
| UK Pavilion Traditional English Afternoon Tea, hosted by DIT | 15:00 - 17:00 | UK Pavilion D501 |
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| Tuesday 8 October | ||||
| TC E.3 - disaster management | James Elliot, CEO, Elliot Asset Management | 08:00 - 11:30 | Conference Room A | |
| Chris Waite, Media and Communications Manager Amey | ||||
| Hugh Gillies, Director of Roads, Transport Scotland | ||||
| Workshop 6 - development of sustainable RSA and RSI implementation in LMICS | John Barrell, Principal Consultant Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT)/SoRSA | 08:00 - 11:30 | Capital Suite 7 | |
| Foresight Session 9 - disability-inclusive road transport | Claire Smith, Head of Transport Accessibility, Transport Scotland | 08:00 - 11:30 | Conference Room C | |
| Prof. Nick Tyler, Civil Engineering, University College, London | ||||
| Workshop 7-2. ongoing and future projects to improve HDM-4 | Lila Tachtsi, WRA UK Chair and Asset Management Director | 14:00 - 17:30 | Capital suite 5 | |
| Dr Eric Stannard, CEO, HDMGlobal | ||||
| TC B.2 - winter service | Alan Chambers, Principal Operations Manager, Amey | 14:30 - 17:30 | Conference Room E | |
| TC A.1 - performance of transport administrations | Jonathan Spear, , Director: Strategic Transport Policy and Planning Atkins | 14:00 - 17:30 | Conference Room B | |
| Workshop 8 - raising the profile of the Rural Access Index (RAI) as a vital SDG indicator for measuring rural development and connectivity | Mark Harvey, Department for International Development | 14:00 - 17:30 | Capital Suite 7 | |
| Annabel Bradbury, ReCAP | ||||
| Robin Workman, Institutional Development Manager, TRL | ||||
| Kevin McPherson, Procurement Manager, TRL | ||||
| Transport Scotland reception, hosted by Roy Brannen, Chief Executive for Transport Scotland | 14:30 - 15:30 | UK Pavilion D501 |
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| Wednesday 9 October | ||||
| Strategic Direction Session E - The progress of climate change adaptation and mitigation actions in the transport sector after the COP 21 Paris Agreement | Adele Rodrian, Climate Change Strategy Advisor, Department for Transport | Wednesday 9 October 08:00 - 11:30 |
Main Room 5 | |
| Steve Berry OBE, Head of Local Roads, Light Rail and Cableways, Department for Transport | ||||
| Workshop 9 - asset management - does it matter? | Sam Beamish , Technical Director, Kier Highways | 08:00 - 11:30 | Capital Suite 5 | |
| TC A.2 - road transport system economics and social development | Edward Simpson, Professor in Social Anthropology, SOAS | 08:00 - 11:30 | Conference Room B | |
| TC C.2 - design and operations of safer road infrastructure | John Barrell, Principal Consultant CIHT/SoRSA | 14:00 - 17:30 | Conference Room D | |
| Lucy Wickham, Snr Technical Director, WSP | ||||
| TC E.1 - adaptation strategies/resiliency | Dr Alice Moncaster , Engineering & Innovation Senior Lecturer, Open University | 14:00-17:30 | Conference Room A | |
| Juan Canavera Herrera, PhD Engineering Research Student, University of Cambridge | ||||
| Foresight session 12 - promoting a culture of transparency and integrity in transport administrations | Hamish Goldie-Scot, Technical Adviser UK Construction Sector Transparency Initiative | 14:00 - 17:30 | Conference Room C | |
| Workshop 11 - boosting BIM implementation for highways through collaboration | Richard Petrie, CEO, BuildingSMART | 14:00 - 17:30 | Capital Suite 5 | |
| Phil Jackson, BIM Support Officer, BuildingSMART | ||||
| TC D.5 - road tunnels operations | Principal Engineer, Atkins | 14:00 - 17:30 | Conference Room F | |
| The global opportunity for skills in highways and transportation | Open Stage, Sue Percy, CEO, Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) | 14:30 - 15:00 | Open Stage | |
| Thursday 10 October | ||||
| Foresight ssession 14 - long distance road freight transport | Bernard Obika, Senior Technical Director , IMC worldwide | 08:00 - 11:30 | Conference Room C | |
| Steve Phillips, Secretary General, CEDR | ||||
| Highways England: Connecting cultures - enabling economies | Mike Wilson, Chief Highways Engineer, Highways England | 11:00 - 11:30 | Open Stage | |
For the full Congress programme please visit the WRC website.
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