The aim of this report is to describe the structure and to summarise the results of the 11th Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology (HVTT) Symposium. The Symposium was held in Melbourne from 14-17 March 2010. HVTT11 featured over 70 technical papers focusing on the key drivers of change and how these can influence future developments and government policy formulation relating to heavy vehicles. More than 160 international experts attended. Key areas of HVTT11 included environment and energy, vehicle technology and design, safety, infrastructure design and operation, standards and regulations, compliance, community issues, logistics issues, productivity, heavy vehicle transport policy and freight volumes and trends. (Author/publisher)
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