The venue for the 2011 CITA Conference and General Assembly was the Hotel Meliã Berlin, situated in central downtown Berlin.
VdTÜV acted as host and is a non-profit organisation serving the public interest in matters of technology and technological progress.
It promotes the third party approach in the fields of consulting, testing, inspection, certification and training in matters of technical safety, quality, environmental protection and cost effectiveness. Further, VdTÜV cooperates in the development of harmonised standards for technical inspection as well as continuing development of high safety standards by providing expertise in the formulation of laws, norms and technical rules.
The 2011 CITA Conference had the theme "Mutual Recognition and Continuous Compliance" and three sub-themes:
- Mutual Recognition of Roadworthiness Inspections - the key steps to achieve this goal
- Strategies for delivering Continuous Compliance
- CITA Projects - progress with 3 key initiatives
SPONSORS of the event
Opening Session
Dr Klaus Brüggeman, Executive Member of the Board of Directors of VdTÜV
Paper: Welcome Speech (English) (German)
Ricard Puignou, CITA President
Paper: The Road to Continuous Compliance.
Plenary Session 1
Achieving Mutual Recognition of Roadworthiness Inspections
Speaker 1: Juan Ramos Garcia, Chief of the Vehicle Regulations and Transport Innovations Section & Secretary of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29), UNECE Transport Division.
Paper: Development of the UN 1997 Agreement on Periodical Technical inspections.
Speaker 2: Walter Nissler, Policy Officer, Road Safety Unit, DG Mobility and Transport, European Commission.
Paper: Strengthening EU legislation on roadworthiness testing to establish mutual recognition of roadworthiness inspections – Directive 2009/40/EC and the next steps.
Speaker 3: Dr Thomas Facklam, Chairperson of the Mutual Agreement Council of European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA)
Paper: Tested once – accepted everywhere. Accreditation as a tool for mutual recognition in Europe and globally in the Motor Vehicle field.
Plenary Session 2
Continuous Compliance - the Vehicle Inspection Contribution
Speaker 1: Dr. Andreas Scheuer, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development - Germany.
Paper: The role of PTI and roadside inspections in achieving continuous compliance (Readout in German)
Speaker 2: Alastair Peoples, CEO, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, Department for Transport, Britain.
Paper: Periodic technical Inspections & Continuous Compliance
Speaker 3: Dr Roland Krause, Managing Director, DEKRA International GmbH, Germany.
Paper: Optimized European Road Safety
Plenary Session 3
Overveiw of Continuous Compliance in North America
Speaker 1: Neil Schuster, President of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA)
Paper: An overview of the latest highway safety regulations and technologies the states and provinces are supporting, with an emphasis on PTI from the perspective of state and provincial Departments of Motor Vehicles.
Speaker 2: Collin Mooney, Deputy Executive Director Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, North America.
Paper: An overview of road side inspections and highway safety regulations pertaining to heavy duty commercial vehicles
Speaker 3: Doug Woolverton, Director Safety Equipment at Hunter Engineering Company, Pennsylvania, USA and CITA RAG NA Member.
Paper: An overview of PTI best practices in use in North America and the RAG NA Work Group suggestions for the future.
Speaker 4: Jack Pierce, Business Development Director at Applus Technology, Illinois, USA and CITA RAG NA Member.
Paper: Update on the current regulatory status of PTI in the US and Canada.
Speaker 5: Lothar Geilen, CEO at SysTech International, Utah, USA and CITA RAG NA Member
Paper: PTI programs in small jurisdictions relating to remote wireless OBD inspection projectsSpeaker 6: Dietmar Bogk, President & CEO at DEKRA America, Georgia, USA and CITA RAG NA Member. Paper: US current PTI for heavy duty motor commercial vehicles
Plenary Session 4
Paper: Report back from the three Workshops
Workshop A The contribution of EU legislation to the achievement of mutual recognition
Workshop B Ensuring that PTI Inspections are carried out by all testing organisations in all Member States to a consistent quality
Workshop C CITA Projects/Short Term Initiatives and related technical issues
Workshop A Session 1
The Contribution of EU Legislation to the Achievement of Mutual Recognition
Speaker 1: Prof. Dr. habil. Wolfgang H. Schulz - Dean in Logistics, Transport and Retail - Fresenius University, Germany.
Paper: Optimal PTI-Cycle – Empirical Cost-Benefit Results for Germany
Speaker 2: Jan Jacobson,SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.
Paper: How can safety functions be tested.
Workshop A Session 2
The Contribution of EU Legislation to the Achievement of Mutual Recognition
Speaker 1: Deepak Kulkarni, Sr. Dy. Director, ARAI, India.
Paper: Inspection & Certification – Indian Scenario and Future Plans.
Speaker 2: Viktor Kretzschmann, Managing Director TÜV Rheinland.
Paper: PTI quality standards as a requirement for the comparability of PTI results
Workshop B Session 1
Ensuring that PTI Inspections are carried out by all testing organisations in all Member States to a consistent quality
Speaker 1: Emre Büyükkalfa, Corporate Development Director TÜVTURK, Turkey.
Paper: TÜVTURK’s journey to sustainable inspection & service quality through EN ISO/IEC 17020 conformance.
Speaker 2: Hannu Pellikka, Technical Director, A-Katsastus, Finland.
Paper: Mutual Recognition and Quality of PTI
Workshop B Session 2
Ensuring that PTI Inspections are carried out by all testing organisations in all Member States to a consistent quality
Speaker 1: Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Chief Executive, National Agency of Vehicle Inspection (NAVI), Japan.
Paper: Advancement of Vehicle Inspection in Japan for ensuring continuous compliance in real road traffic.
Speaker 2: Filip Skibinski, Automotive Legislation - Department Head, ITS, Poland.
Paper: Case Study: PTI in Poland
Workshop C Session 1
CITA Projects/Short Term Initiatives and related technical issues
Speaker 1: Axel Richter, TEDDIE Project Director, CITA Policy Expert for Environmental Protection Systems and Director at TÜV NORD Mobilität, Germany.
Paper: Status report on TEDDIE - EU Low Diesel Emissions Project
Speaker 2: Hans Jürgen Mäurer, Head of Technical Development, DEKRA,Germany.
Paper: Capability of OBD on Euro 5 Diesel Engines, comparison of OBD and tailpipe measurement.
Speaker 3: Dr. Harald Neumann, Vice President, Robert Bosch, Germany.
Paper: Trends of Vehicle Testing Technology.
Speaker 4: Oliver Franken, Managing Director, Sensors Europe, Germany.
Paper: NO and NO2 Measurements on Diesel Vehicles during PTI
Speaker 5: Christoph Nolte, Deputy Technical Director, DEKRA Automobil GmbH, Germany.
Paper: Options for the implementation of the advanced requirements on testing brakes during PTI according to the directive 2010/48/EC
Workshop C Session 2
CITA Projects/Short Term Initiatives and related technical issues
Speaker 1: Dr Thomas Aubel, CITA Policy Expert for Vehicle Safety Systemsand Executive Vice President Mobility TÜV International GmbH.
Paper: CITA Electronically Controlled Systems Initiative.
Speaker 2: Karl Egle, Manager Project Management, Beissbarth, Germany.
Paper: Optimized Vehicle-Inspection/-Diagnostics via integrated ECU-Diagnostics to common Test Lanes.
Speaker 3: Toni Viscido, former CITA Technical Advisor.
Paper: Chances and Challenges for the inspection of ECS through EURO5/6
Speaker 4: Eduard Fernandez, CITA Policy Expert for Information Systems and Technical Manager, Certio, Spain.
Paper: CITA Technical and Test Result Database Initiative
Speaker 5: Pascal Buekenhoudt, Project Office Manager, at GOCA, Belgium.
Paper: Minimum phase shift new method introduced by GOCA in the Belgium PTI to evaluate the whole suspension system and the damping system in particular