08:30 Registration

09:00 Chairman’s Welcome

09:10 Development And Upgrading Of Existing Road Infrastructure In Urban Areas To Enhance Road Capacity And Development Opportunity

• Specific challenges in design development
• Methodology in meeting development opportunity
• Strategies to reduce the social outcry
• Challenges of maintaining sustainable development

Tng Thiam Heng
Manager Design Development (Road), LAND TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
SINGAPORE

09:50 Indonesia Case Study: Key Highway And Freeway Projects

• Overview of the Eastern Road Corridor in Sumatra
• Developments in the ring roads around Jakarta
• Ensuring the Jakarta – Surabaya toll roads are up to international standards
• Projected plans

Hermanto Dardak
Director (Highways)
MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS, INDONESIA

11:00 Effective Water Drainage For Road Pavements

• Porous or drainage pavement has been successfully implemented in many developed countries for its proven advantages
• Caltex Permi Binder (PG 82) is a high viscosity modified asphalt designed to enhance the durability decreases the occurrence of rutting and extends pavement life spans exceeding 5 years.
• Enhancing durability of porous pavement is able to reduce traffic noise for comfort living in the city
• Improving road safety by reducing the likelihood of hydroplaning and road reflections for night driving

Doris Lim Mei Fong
General Manager - Asphalt Asia Pacific
CHEVRON

11:40 Examining Thailand’s Dust-Free Roads Project

• Overview of the road network in Thailand
• Dust-free roads project feasibility study
• Dust-free roads project implementation and management

Kanokkorn Chatuchinda
Director of Urban Road Construction
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL ROADS THAILAND

13:30 Utilising State-Of-The-Art Intelligent Road Design Models With Genetic Algorithms, Geographic Information Systems, And CADD

• Leveraging GIS, and digital terrain models for better road design
• Integrating highway design procedure using AutoCAD with a Highway Optimisation Model (HAO)
• Developing an intelligent road design model by integrating CADD and digital terrain modelling capabilities
• Exploring existing examples and case studies of successful application

Dr. Amiruddin Ismail
Transportation Group Leader
UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA

14:10 Asian Highway Project: A Look Into The UNESCAP Initiative To Improve Highway Systems In Asia

• Overview of the mega project
• Providing an advanced highway network that will provide greater trade and social interactions between Asian countries
• A network of 141,000 kilometres of standardised roadways crisscrossing 32 Asian countries with linkages to Europe

Madan Bandhu Regmi
Project Officer (Asian Highway Network), Transport Infrastructure Section
UNESCAP

14:50 Upgrading Of Existing Road Infrastructure To Meet Current And Future Safety Demands Via Re-Engineering

• Evaluating new technologies and performance parameters for vehicle restraint systems to improve safety performance
• Different approaches to analysis of safety demands and design-driven, installation-driven and test-driven perspectives
• Supporting effective solutions to complex network safety demands

Panel Discussion:

15:50 Chairman Hosted Q+A And Summary

16:00 Close Of Day One