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Welcome to Chris Bennett's and Lis Pedersen's web site. If you are looking for information Chris' current work on affordable housing, please visit www.mygbhousing.info. The video below tells the background to Chris' project.

 

Chris' Presentations

All of Chris' presentations in one place!

 

Funded by PPIAF, this is a comprehensive three-day training course covering the key aspects of performance based road maintenance developed for the World Bank by Cowi consultants in Denmark. This course was presented in Thailand and China, and variations of it in other countries. The file contains all training and background materials. The contents include:

Module 1: Introduction and overview of PMMR
Module 2: Compliance monitoring
Module 3: Long- term asset modeling
Module 4: Changes required by road administration and the consulting and contracting industry
Module 5: Sample Bidding Document of the World Bank for PMMR
Module 6: Other resources for getting information on PMMR
Case Study 1: Argentina
Case Study 2: Uruguay
Case Study 3: Denmark
Case Study 4: PMMR for routine maintenance using micro-enterprises in Latin America
Case Study 5: Lebanon
Workshop 1: Development of performance standards and response times – introduction
Workshop 2: Development of a strategy of implementing PMMR in your country

Supplementary materials for China can be downloaded here.

2005 - Success Factors for Road Management Systems
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 21-03-2018

Presentation discussing how to successfully implement a road management system

2005 - Success Factors for Road Management Systems
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 491 KB
 21-03-2018

Presentation giving the findings of the project looking at what makes an RMS implementation successful.

2005 - Road Safety in China: The World Bank's Experience
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 25-06-2019

Presentation summarizing the situation on road safety in China and the World Bank’s experiences.

Presentations and materials from a workhop held to consider the viaibility of introducing performance based contracting to Indonesia

Presentation describing the activities underway in East Asia transport projects for combating HIV/AIDS.

Presentation to the 2005 ITS Congress in San Francisco on issues associated with the introduction of ITS.

2005 - Data Collection Technologies for Road Management
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 9.4 MB
 25-06-2019

Presentation discussing data collection technologies

2005 - China Road Maintenance Conference
 657 Downloads
 2.19 MB
 25-06-2019

Road Owners and Pavement Management Systems. Presentation discussing road management systems and the implications for owners. For Chinese version select here.

2005 - China - Road Owners Perspective on PMS
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 2.21 MB
 25-06-2019

Presentation for road authorities on the benefits of PMS. In Chinese

2005 - Asia Roads Conference
 1282 Downloads
 4.1 MB
 25-06-2019

Road Safety in China: The World Bank's Experience. Presentation on road safety issues in China.

2004 - Hubei Road Safety Seminar
 1064 Downloads
 3.11 MB
 25-06-2019

Road Safety: Issues and Solutions. Shows trends in road safety and implications for China.

2003 - Pavement Deterioration Modelling
 1231 Downloads
 2.38 MB
 25-06-2019

2003 Japan Expressway Technology Center

2003 - Introduction to Asset Management
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 22.49 MB
 21-03-2018

Presentation giving an overview of Asset Management.

Cambodia HDM-4 training course. 9/10.

2003 - Computerized Road Management Systems
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 21-03-2018

Presentation giving overview of RMS for management.

Presentation on the New Zealand location referencing management system project which addressed road referencing and implemented exor Highways. 1/4.

Presentation on the New Zealand location referencing management system project which addressed road referencing and implemented exor Highways. 2/4.

Presentation on the New Zealand location referencing management system project which addressed road referencing and implemented exor Highways. 3/4.

Presentation on the New Zealand location referencing management system project which addressed road referencing and implemented exor Highways. 4/4.

2001 - Principles of Location Referencing
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 25-06-2019

Presentation describing location referencing of roads.

2001 - NZ - Creating a Spatial Centreline
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 1.65 MB
 25-06-2019

Presentation covering issues associated with created a spatial centerline for New Zealand’s state highways.

2001 - New Zealand's Location Referencing System
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 25-06-2019

Presentation describing principles of location referencing, with special reference to New Zealand and the issues which needed to be improved.

2001 - HDM-4 Calibration Issues
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 25-06-2019

Presentation to the 2001 PMS Conference on how to calibrate HDM-4.

2001 - HDM-4 and Data Collection in Tonga and Lao PDR
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 25-06-2019

2001 PMS Conference

2000 - Overview of dTIMS Input, Analysis and Reporting
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 25-06-2019

Presentation summarizing the data needs for NZ dTIMS, how analyses are done, and examples of outputs.

2000 - Local Calibration and Adaptation of HDM
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 25-06-2019

Presentation on how to calibrate HDM. Accompanies a paper by the same name for the 1st European PMS Conference.

2000 - Introduction to NZ dTIMS System
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 21-03-2018

Presentation outlining how dTIMS was implemented as New Zealand’s PMS.

How New Zealand introduced a national PMS. Accompanies a paper by the same name for the 1st European PMS Conference.

2000 - How to Calibrate HDM-4
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 25-06-2019

Presentation on how to calibrate HDM. Accompanies a paper by the same name for the 1st European PMS Conference.

2000 - HDM-4 Road User Effects Modelling
 1128 Downloads
 1.57 MB
 25-06-2019

Presentation giving detailed overview of the HDM-4 road user effect model.

2000 - HDM-4 Road User Effects Model
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 1.57 MB
 25-06-2019

Presentation giving detailed overview of the HDM-4 road user effect model.

2000 - HDM-4 Calibration and Validation
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 25-06-2019

Presentation on how HDM-4 calibration and validation is done.

2000 - HDM-4 Calibration and Validation
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 25-06-2019

Presentation on how HDM-4 calibration and validation is done.

2000 - Developing a PMS Training Program
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 1.21 MB
 21-03-2018

Presentation on how a comprehensive national training program was developed for New Zealand to accompany the introduction of a national PMS. Accompanies a paper by the same name for the 1st European PMS Conference.

Adventures

Chris in the NCT Race 

Chris has an adventurous spirit which generally involves cycling, running, or just being out there having a good time. Read his 'Race Reports' below. This is a link to his SPOT GPS tracker. If you are interested in his 'geeky' sport technical blog it is at www.tri-duffer.com. He also has stories of his life as 'An Overtravelled Engineer Working for the World Bank' at World Bank Traveller.

 

Race Reports

Technical

Document Library

 

  • Chris' published papers and reports are here.
  • His Technical Library  has a range of reports 
  • Golden Bay community projects are here.
  • The history of the ROMDAS company is here.
  • The 'Road to Good Health' HIV/AIDs Toolkit is here.

 

Technical Library

Chris and Lis

Chris and Lis

We are Lis Pedersen and Chris Bennett. We’ve been married over 30 years and each found our way to New Zealand in the early 1980s from Denmark and Canada respectively. Golden Bay has been our happy place for almost 20 years and we are now based in Pohara just above the beach, with our two cats Coco and Max. 

 

 

 

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