Loes Aarts, the President of the International Forum for Heavy Vehicle Transport & Technology (HVTT Forum), will be speaking at the official opening of Technology Convergence 2023.
Besides her roles as President of the HVTT Fourm, Loes is a Senior Advisor Freight Transport at Rijkswaterstaat (The National Road Authority within the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of The Netherlands).
Loes is jointly responsible for the strategic agenda of road administration on transport and logistics. Her current focus is on the balance between road freight transport (productivity, sustainability) and asset management (infrastructural costs, access policy). She is also involved in debates on weights and dimensions of commercial vehicles, and in-field operational tests with high capacity vehicles and automated and connected transport on public roads.