Managing Risks in Transport&Cuperus Prize
Description
A plane lands in the Haarlemmermeer polder because of a faulty altimeter, a goods train destroys half a village due to a leak in one of its freight wagons and an oil tanker pollutes French beaches because it is shipwrecked during a storm.
We see many of these (near) accidents in the transport sector. Many incidents have little or no consequences, but some, on the other hand, are truly horrific. As a result, this raises the question of how safe our current transport systems are. The Swedish government has now launched a 'zero-alternative' as a goal to reduce road accidents to the absolute minimum. Should we also develop this kind of alternative for other transport systems?
These questions and a number of others will be discussed during the symposium organised by the Traffic Dispute (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) and the TIL Dispute (Faculty of Engineering, Governance and Management) on Tuesday, 11 May 2010. The theme of this symposium 'Managing Risks in Transport - Safety in Transport and Transportation' emphasises the focus that the symposium will maintain: developments and policy considerations around safety concepts in the transport sector.
The symposium will be opened by Jan Dekker, president of KIVI NIRIA. The closing plenary session will be chaired by ir. Jan Ploeger, chairman of the Traffic and Transport department of KIVI NIRIA.
During the symposium's closing session, from 16.00 - 17.00 h, the presentation of the biennial Cuperus Prize will take place. The Cuperus Prize is awarded by the Traffic and Transport Department of KIVI NIRIA in cooperation with CROW, DHV, Movares and ProRail for the best graduation work at a Dutch university in Traffic and Transport Engineering.
09:30 - 10:00 Reception and Coffee
10:00 - 12:00 Plenary session with three main speakers
- 10:00 Opening by ir. Jan Dekker (chairman KIVI NIRIA)
- 10:30 Rijkswaterstaat, Pieter van Vliet
- 11:00 TU Delft, dr Marjan Hagenzieker
- 11:30 Closing by ir. Jan Dekker
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Carousel round 1
- TNO - road and vehicle design
- Arcadis - Safety of transport of flammable substances
- ProRail - New safety management structure
- Witteveen+Bos - Safety of escape routes in tunnels
- DHV - Traffic safety planning/road design
14:00 - 14:30 Break with coffee/tea
14:30 - 15:30 Carousel round 2
- DTV Consultants - Bicycle path or parallel road
- ProRail - New safety management structure
- TU Delft - Pedestrian evacuation safety
- DHV - Road safety planning/road design
15:30 - 16:00 Walk-out/change time
16:00 - 16:30 Closing plenary session
16:30 - 17:00 Presentation of Cuperus Prize KIVI NIRIA Department of Traffic and Transport Engineering
17:00 - 18:30 Closing Drinks
Location
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Entrance E, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft
Organiser
Traffic and Transport
Traffic & TIL Dispuut (TU Delft)
Name and contact details for information
Traffic & TIL Dispuut
Register via
Symposium weblink (see above)