2003-11-22/AAa

CV Arvid Aakre

 

Name

 

ARVID AAKRE

Born

 

10th April 1959

Nationality

 

Norwegian

Position

 

Ass. professor at Department of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU

Degrees

 

M.Sc., Department of Transportation Engineering, NTH, 1983

Work experience

 

1987-->

Department of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU
Ass professor

 

1983 -->

SINTEF Transport Engineering
Research scientist / scientific adviser

 

1991-92

Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), Crowthorne, England
Research scientist (sabbatical)

 

1983-86

Department of Transport Engineering, NTNU
Research fellow

 

1982-83

Institut für Stadtbauwesen, RWTH, Aachen, Germany
M.Sc thesis

 

Membership in academic and professional committees

 

 

Member of Norwegian society of chartered engineers (NIF)

Member of different NIF professional course committees

 

 

Member of Nordic Road Association, subgroup 53 Transport Informatics
Member since 1995, secretary since 2000

 

 

Member of different expert groups within road traffic in the Nordic countries e.g.

  • Revision of Norwegian road traffic design guidelines
  • Nordkap (Nordic network for capacity and level of service)
  • Vehicle technology expert group

 

 

Member of Leuven Erasmus Network for cooperation between universities and exchange of students

 

 

 

Fields of interest and present research activities

 

 

  • Intelligent transport systems and services (ITS)
  • Traffic management
  • Traffic flow theory and level of service
  • Driver behavior and efficient traffic flow
  • Traffic survey methods and equipment
  • Road traffic accident investigation
  • Traffic simulation and modelling
  • Queueing theory and statistical modelling
  • Computer models and programming

 

 

 

Selected academic and professional publications (2001 - 2003)

 

November 2003

“ÅDT grenser. Gjennomgang av ÅDT-grenser i ulike land og forslag til inndeling i ny handbook 017”
SINTEF report STF22 A03329

 

November 2003

”Signalregulering av rundkjøringer”
Presentation at Nordisk trafikksignalkonferens, Stockholm

 

October 2003

”Road Transport informatics terminology
– a project initiated by the Nordic road Association”
Presentation at the PIARC World Road Congress, Durban, South Africa

 

September 2003

“Reisetider. Behov for og bruk av reisetider”
Presentation at NVF seminar ”Variabla hastigheter og restider”, Stockholm

 

June 2003

”Envegsregulering av Gamle bybro – før/etterundersøkelser”
SINTEF research note

 

May 2003

”Oversikt over en del metoder for detektering av trafikk”
Presentation at NVF seminar “Detektering”, Stavanger

 

November 2002

”Trafikkavvikling i kryss”
Presentation at SCC seminar ”SIDRA”, Trondheim

 

October 2002

”Alternative muligheter”
Presentation at NVF seminar ”Variable skilt i vegtrafikken”, Tromsø

 

September 2002

”Virkninger av ny teknologi i kjøretøy”
Presentation at ”Teknologirådets scenarieverksted om ny teknologi i transportsektoren”, Oslo

 

September 2002

“Road Transport Informatics Terminology”
NVF report no 1:2002

 

May 2002

”Virkninger av utvidet bruk av fartsbegrensere”
SINTEF report STF22 A02309

 

September 2001

”Trafikksikkerhet eller framkommelighet – ja takk, begge deler”
Presentation at Veg og trafikk 2001, Trondheim

 

August 2001

“Tilfartskapasitet i rundkjøringer – evaluering av beregningsmetoder”
SINTEF report STF22 A01300

 

January 2001

”Hva forstår vi med trafikkavviklingskvalitet og hvordan kan vi påvirke den?”
Presentation at Samferdselkonferansen 2001, Trondheim