Sweden4Platooning
Closing Conference
11 MARCH 2020, KTH, STOCKHOLM , SWEDEN
11 MARCH 2020, KTH, STOCKHOLM , SWEDEN
Speakers
Richard Bishop has 29 years of experience in the domain of intelligent, connected, and automated vehicles and how these interact with our transportation system and society, including automated cars, trucks, and robotaxis. He provides strategic consulting to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and tech firms, as well as advising federal and state government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Bishop serves as 2nd Vice Chair of the American Trucking Association’s Automated Driving Study Group, and founded and chairs the International Task Force on Vehicle Highway Automation. Prior to establishing Bishop Consulting in 1997, Mr. Bishop was Program Manager for Vehicle-Highway Automation at the USDOT Federal Highway Administration. He holds engineering degrees from Auburn University and Johns Hopkins University, plus an M.A. in Transformational Leadership and Social Change from Tai-Sophia Institute.
Marika Hoedemaeker is the Coordinator of the EU funded project ENSEMBLE on multi-brand platooning. The ENSEMBLE project is prototyping the world’s first multi-brand solution enabling any EU truck brand to platoon with any other. The platooning trucks will be demonstrated in real-life environment in May 2021.
Jakob Axelsson is professor of computer science at Mälardalen University and a senior research leader at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. He has worked around 15 years in the automotive industry, and is currently focusing his research on systems-of-systems engineering.
Bernard Jacob graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He is a bridge and road engineer. He is with Université Gustave Eiffel, vice-presidency Research, and co-leader of the Infrastructure research axis. He is an international expert in Weigh-In-Motion and on heavy vehicles, including platooning. He had lead positions in several European and International projects. He is currently involved in the H2020 project ENSEMBLE and member of the advisory board of AEROFLEX. He is co-chair of the Long Distance Freight Transport WG of ERTRAC, and member of the TRB committees: AB055 on Heavy vehicle weights and dimensions, and ABJ35 on Traffic Monitoring and WIM. He is the French secretary of the PIARC technical committee TC2.3 on freight transport.
Jan Dellrud is Leader of technical development at Scania for “European Truck Platooning Challenge”, Leader of technical development for “Singapore Platooning phase 1”, and Project leader “Sweden4Platooning”.
Sebastian van de Hoef graduated in 2018 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology on the topic of “Coordination of Heavy-Duty Vehicle Platooning”. Currently, he works as Lead Software Engineer at HERE Technologies, one of the top location service platform providers worldwide. His work focuses on innovation topics in the area of transport and logistics.
Katrin Sjöberg is a connected vehicle technology specialist at Scania involved in research to regulation of connected and automated driving. In 2013, she defended her Ph D thesis entitled “Medium Access Control for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks” at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She is responsible for several work items in ETSI standardization essential for V2X communication (e.g., platooning, radio certification, co-existence methods, ITS-G5, DCC, channel modelling). Further, she also represents Scania in the European OEM association ACEA in Brussels on various topics.
Dr. Ane-Kristin Reif-Mosel works for DB Schenker since 5 years after being in Consulting in Travel & Transportation for more than a decade. She is a Senior Project Member within the Land Transport Strategy and PMO department of Schenker Europe GmbH. Ane-Kristin has been coordinating Schenker’s involvement during the Platooning Project EDDI in 2018/2019. This Pilot included a 30k km Platooning pilot on a Bavarian motorway between to Schenker branches. This project was supported by the German ministry of transport and infrastructure and executed in a partnership with MAN Truck & Bus and Hochschule Fresenius. Furthermore has been involved in evaluating the business model of a Platoon Service Provider with a different set of industry partners.
Alexander Johansson is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at KTH. He works with truck platoon coordination and is part of the projects "Sweden4Platooning" and "Ensemble".