3rd Bus and Coach Engineering Seminar: Whole life costs and reliability in a low emissions industry

Name: 3rd Bus and Coach Engineering Seminar: Whole life costs and reliability in a low emissions industry
Start: 2017-09-19T08:30:00
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

19 September 2017
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This seminar will focus on the reliability and whole life costs associated with low emission buses, based on real experiences in the field. Learn directly from bus operators and manufacturers whilst engaging with budget holders and engineering decision makers.

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Overview

The 3rd Bus and Coach Engineering Seminar will bring together the UK’s engineering leaders to put their heads together and find out what are the most cost effective and reliable options for current and future regulatory compliance.

Operators and manufacturers will share knowledge and experiences and will rigorously debate the pros and cons of Euro VI, fully electric, hybrid and hydrogen vehicles. We will also discuss what the bus industry of the future will look like, in light of future regulations, technology development and the changing expectations of our customers.

Why attend the 3rd Bus and Coach Engineering Seminar?

Hear about bus operators’ experiences of maintaining fully electric, hybrid, hydrogen and Euro VI diesel buses so you can make an informed decision about your future investments
Stay ahead of the curve with your planning, get an update on the direction of future regulations including ULEZ, the proposed Euro VII and ISO 26262
Learn about the latest technology developments in batteries, powertrains and more in our interactive exhibition zone
Make new contacts and learn from their experiences in our interactive discussion groups

Key seminar topics include:

The whole life costs of alternative fuel buses: what you need to know before you invest in a new fleet
Real life experience of Euro VI buses: how is their environmental and operational performance in the field?
Infrastructure for fully electric and hydrogen fuel cell fleets: how have companies faced the hurdles of planning permissions, grid capacity and costs?
How will bus engineering change in the face of swiftly evolving customer expectations?
Insights into the new ISO 26262 and what the bus industry needs to do to prepare for its implementation

Confirmed speakers include:

Ian Foster, Engineering Director, Metroline
Stuart Cottrell, Head of Advanced Engineering, Alexander Dennis
David Yorke, New Technology, Training and Projects Manager, Tower Transit
Matthew Bloxham, Depot Engineering Manager, Arriva
Collin Field, Engineering Director, Bath Bus Company
Tom Druitt, Managing Director, The Big Lemon
Steve Atkins, Lead Commercial Contract Manager, Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks
Mike Kerslake, Technical Manager, BYD
Simona Webb, Principal Policy and Programme Officer Air Quality and Hydrogen, Greater London Authority

Organising Committee:

Automobile Division, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Member Credits:

John Bickerton, Head of Engineering and Innovation, Reading Buses

Day 1

08:30 - Seminar Programme

	Tuesday, 19th September 2017
08:30	Registration and Refreshments
09:00	Chair’s Opening Remarks John Bickerton, Head of Engineering and Innovation, Reading Buses
09:15	Future Bus and Coach Transportation: Emissions Regulations, Powertrain and Vehicle Technologies Andy Noble, Head of Heavy Duty Engines, Ricardo What is the status of potential Euro VII regulations and what will they mean for the industry? Which low emissions technologies are looking likely to win in the long term and why? What roles will connected and autonomous vehicles play in the future of transport and what will that mean for bus and coach engineering?
09:40	Charging Strategies for Electric Buses Mike Kerslake, Technical Manager, BYD
10:10	Panel Discussion: What do we now know about the whole life costs of EVs and hybrid vehicles? What lifetime are we seeing on the major components such as batteries, motors and generators, on the different models of electric and hybrid vehicle? What fuel efficiency are we seeing from our hybrid buses? How is fuel efficiency affected as the vehicles age? Issues around the safety and maintainability of a hybrid or fully electric fleet What is the aftermarket and recyclability of hybrid buses? Mike Kerslake, Technical Manager, BYD Tom Druitt, Managing Director, The Big Lemon Simon Buckley, Programme Manager, Magnetic Systems Technology Matthew Bloxham, Depot Engineering Manager, Arriva
11:00	Networking Refreshment Break
11:30	Operating New Technology Buses David Yorke, New Technology, Training and Projects Manager, Tower Transit
11:55	The TfL retrofit trials: What can we learn from them as an industry? Environmental challenges and air quality targets Euro III SCR Development, testing and rollout Real World emissions testing and impacts monitoring Retrofit to Euro VI standard Finn Coyle, Environmental Manager, Transport Emissions, Transport for London
12:20	Panel Discussion: Developing the infrastructure to get the fuel and electricity into a site for bus operation How can distribution grid operators supply a site with enough power for a fleet of electric buses, in central urban locations? How are bus operators overcoming the planning permission challenges involved in the building of fuelling and charging infrastructure? What kinds of costs are involved in the setting up of substations and fuel production plants? Steve Atkins, Lead Commercial Contract Manager, Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks David Yorke, New Technology, Training and Projects Manager, Tower Transit Ben Todd, Director, Arcola Energy Iain Miller, Head of Innovation, Northern Powergrid Derek McCreadie, i-Travel Programme Manager, City of York Council Steve Cornes, Principal Project Officer, Public Transport - Development, Nottingham City Council
13:00	Networking Lunch
14:00	Mini-workshop: Understanding duty cycles to improve fuel efficiency and fleet reliability Andy Eastlake, Managing Director, The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership How can you monitor and analyse your speeds, distances and gradients throughout each route, to optimise the performance of your fleet? What have we learnt from industry trials of GPS timed speed traces and what can they tell you about power requirements?
14:30	Discussion Groups Select the discussion group that best fits your priorities, and join a group of your peers around a table hosted by an expert moderator who will talk you through the main issues, and will also allow group members to contribute their experience and questions throughout this lively, interactive session. A. Powertrain innovations:What is in development for buses and coaches? Andy Noble, Head of Heavy Duty Engines, Ricardo B. How to prepare for the new Functional Safety Standard ISO 26262 publishing in January 2018 Helen Monkhouse, Commercial Manager – Functional Safety, HORIBA MIRA C. How do you achieve a zero emission double deck? Stuart Cottrell, Head of Advanced Engineering, Alexander Dennis
15:30	Networking Refreshment Break
16:00	Reporting back session Discussion leaders share the most poignant points from their groups’ debates
16:20	Quick-fire Presentations and Question and Answer Session: The Future of the Customer Experience: What can engineering do to enable buses and coaches to remain competitive? Speakers will give a short presentation on their view of the future of the passenger experience of buses and coaches and how the industry needs to prepare for it. Some of the issues on the table include: How will we be improving passenger comfort in future, to help attract people out of their cars? How do we make luxury durable? Are there lessons to be learnt from other industries? Which extras will become the norm e.g. wi-fi, charging points, additional luggage facilities? How can we continuously improve bus reliability from an engineering point of view, as new and more diverse technologies enter our fleets? Will manufacturers continue to reduce the weight of the body to enable better features alongside energy efficiency in both buses and coaches? Speakers include: Ray Stenning, Designer, Best Impressions David Barnett, Advanced Products Director, Wrightbus
16:50	Chair’s Closing Remarks
17:00	End of Seminar

Dr. Andrew Noble: Head of Heavy Duty Engines Product Group, Ricardo

Dr. Andy Noble has worked at Ricardo for many years on a very wide range of automotive and engine research and development projects. He currently is leader of the Heavy Duty Engines Product Group and is part of a customer-facing team managing the winning and delivery of engine design and development projects from concept through to certification and production. The team faces the challenges of delivering to OEM and Tier 1 customers improved emissions, better fuel efficiency, higher power density and faster transient response for application sectors including commercial vehicle, off highway, rail and power generation.

He has authored over thirty technical papers, has filed seven patents and chaired numerous sessions at international conferences in the engine and automotive arena.

His current main areas of interest are the development of higher efficiency medium and heavy duty engines, improving their combustion, performance and emissions and integrating highly effective aftertreatment systems.

Dr. Ben Todd: Founder and Managing Director, Arcola Energy

Dr. Ben Todd is Founder and Managing Director of Arcola Energy, a leading UK hydrogen & fuel cell system integrator, working with many of the leading global suppliers.

Arcola Energy is active across a wide range of markets including engineering of fuel cell electric buses, management of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle fleets, installation of stationary fuel cell power generators and deployment of off-grid portable fuel cell systems.

Ben is also Managing Director of ECUBES ARCOLA an international developer of cleaner energy projects, including renewables, fossil thermal plant and hydrogen & fuel cells.

Ben holds a PhD in engineering from Cambridge University and has previously worked in R&D, engineering and strategy on commercial and public sector projects, including at Cambridge Consultants, Johnson Matthey and Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems. He holds numerous advisory roles including on the Executive Committee of Hydrogen London, the Industrial Advisory Committee of the UK H2FC Supergen Research hub, and the Advisory Committee of European Utility Week.

David Yorke: New Technology, Training and Projects Manager, Tower Transit

A Chartered Engineer and qualified to Master Degree level in both Hydrogen Safety Engineering and Electronics, David Yorke has worked on introducing and operating zero and low emission buses for the last eight years. These include hydrogen fuel cell buses under the CHiC and 3Emotion projects and virtual electric buses as part of the ZeEUS project.

David has been involved in the preparation of the projects, helping to oversee the manufacture of the buses, the construction of workshops and fuelling infrastructures. Working in close collaboration with Transport for London (TfL) and other stakeholders in the ventures, David project manages the daily operation of the buses. He has become a respected authority in the operation of hydrogen fuel cell buses and other zero emission buses.

Before his current employment at Tower Transit, David has worked in industry on new product introduction and quality. He has extensive experience of low production, high technology, manufacturing.

Helen Monkhouse: Commercial Manager – Functional Safety, HORIBA MIRA

Helen is a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ experience working in a product development environment. Helen’s career in system safety started in railway signalling with British Rail Research. She then took that knowledge into the automotive domain working at Jaguar Land Rover for 15 years, as Power train System Safety Technical Specialist. In 2011 Helen joined Protean Electric, a technology company developing in-wheel motors for electric vehicles, as their Product Safety Manager. Then last year Helen joined HORIBA MIRA as the Commercial Manager for Functional Safety. Helen has published a number of papers on automotive functional safety and promotes industry best practice through her work with MISRA, ISO 26262 and SAE groups. In 2015 Helen also joined the High Integrity Systems Engineering Group at the University of York, as a doctoral research student; researching “controllability considerations for autonomous vehicle safety”.

Mike Kerslake: Technical Manager, BYD

Mike began his career at Leyland Vehicles before joining the then London Buses organisation for four years. He started his relationship with the ADL family in 1988 as a design engineer at Dennis Specialist Vehicles. From 1999 he spent two years as Engineering Manager at Thomas Dennis LLC, a joint venture between Mayflower Corporation and DaimlerChrysler before moving back to Guildford in 2001, becoming Head of Product Development and then Group Technology Manager. Mike Kerslake moved to ADL’s electric bus partner company BYD in 2017, becoming BYD’s Technical Manager.

Ray Stenning: Designer, Best Impressions

Ray is well-known in the public transport world. He is colourful, charismatic, outspoken, a bit outrageous and rather unconventional. You probably wouldn’t want to take him home to meet your mother.

However, under that threatening exterior he is a very talented, enthusiastic, dedicated professional, and displays a passion that can be quite breathtaking. Ray is the leading light behind the London-based creative design, marketing and advertising agency Best Impressions. For over 30 years Best Impressions has been raising the bar and changing how public transport is presented, perceived and sold. It has created many commanding transport brands and countless successful (and often award-winning) projects in bus, coach and rail sectors. Ray himself was given a special award in 2015 for his outstanding contribution to the industry.

Ray’s team of dedicated designers and account handlers all believe in public transport and are passionate about good design. They are committed to turning out work of the highest calibre, and certainly never afraid to tell the client when he is wrong!

At a personal level, Ray’s other interests include film, art and architecture and he thrills to live opera. What a hero! Listen to what he has to say - it’s stirring stuff.

Simon Buckley: Programme Manager, Magnetic Systems Technology

Simon is Programme Manager for all of Magtecs’s EV Repowers across the bus and commercial vehicle sector. Simon has a mechanical engineering background, having graduated from the University of Sheffield with masters in mechanical engineering. Simon takes a large interest in renewable and clean energy and has previously been involved in design and deployment of a cloud based energy storage system. Simon has experience of managing large projects in both the vehicle and energy storage world and is currently expanding Magtec’s vehicle conversion team.

Simona Webb: Principal Policy and Programme Officer Air Quality and Hydrogen, Hydrogen for Innovative Vehicles (HyFIVE) Project Coordinator, Greater London Authority

Simona Webb manages the Hydrogen Programme at the Greater London Authority and is the Project Coordinator for one of the largest FCHJU European funded hydrogen transport projects: HyFIVE (Hydrogen For Innovative Vehicles). The Greater London Authority, through its Mayoral programme Hydrogen London, has initiated over £60 million worth of hydrogen projects and works closely with key stakeholders to accelerate the commercialisation of Hydrogen Fuel Cell technologies in London.

Steve Atkins: Lead Commercial Contract Manager, Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks

Steve Atkins is the Lead Commercial Contract Manager for Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks. His team provides key account management to large distributed generation and demand customers and are focused on providing a single point of contact for clients throughout the application process up to and beyond energisation. Steve has 17 years experience in the financial industry where he undertook a number of strategic roles in senior management and just prior to joining SSEN in August 2014 he ran his own solar pv installation company.

Stuart Cottrell: Head of Advanced Engineering, Alexander Dennis

Stuart Cottrell has been Head of Advanced Engineering at Alexander Dennis Limited since 2013, delivering proof-of-concept evaluations of new technologies and optimisation projects targeting a range of vehicle attributes with a keen focus on fuel efficiency. Stuart joined ADL from Cummins, where he specialised in engine controls and integration across a range of on and off-highway engine and vehicle platforms.

John Bickerton: Head of Engineering and Innovation, Reading Buses

John Bickerton graduated from the University of Bath with MEng(Hons) in Automotive Engineering. After experience with Cosworth and Lotus he joined the country's largest bus operator, First, as a graduate trainee, and spent time in front-line management positions before managing the company's fuel saving strategy and eventually leading the company's technical standards nationally. After twelve years with First, John moved to Reading Buses as Chief Engineer, where he is focused on building fleet reliability and controlling maintenance costs. Reading Buses operates 140 vehicles including 31 hybrid double-deck and 34 CNG single deck vehicles. The company carries 16 million passengers and covers 4.6 million miles each year, and is one of few UK bus operators seeing consistent growth due to a high quality service.

Matthew Bloxham: Depot Engineering Manager, Arriva

Matthew Bloxham is Depot Engineering Manager for Arriva plc in Milton Keynes. With almost a decade’s experience in engineering, he has worked with TfL services at Watford and on the Coach Charter Programme for the London 2012 Olympic Games. He managed the Arriva depot in High Wycombe before moving into his current position in January 2015, where he has managed the integration of 8 fully electric buses into the Arriva planned maintenance schedule.

Tom Druitt: Managing Director, The Big Lemon

Tom Druitt is the Manager Director of The Big Lemon, which was founded in September 2007. The Big Lemon's mission is to enable everyone to get around their community in an affordable, environmentally-sustainable way. The Big Lemon was the first bus company in the UK to run its whole fleet on 100% recycled waste cooking oil, and the first bus company in the UK with a Facebook group (that was before they even had ‘Pages‘!). In April 2017 Tom launched the UK's first ever "Solar Bus", an electric bus, owned by the community, powered by sunshine. The buses are powered by electricity generated by solar panels on the depot roof, part funded by the community and the M&S Energy Fund. Our vision: By 2030 every community in the UK has access to affordable, sustainable transport, using zero-emissions vehicles powered by renewable energy and owned by the local community.

Andy Eastlake : Managing Director, Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership

Andy Eastlake was appointed LowCVP’s Managing Director in April 2012, after serving both on the board and for many years as Chair of the Members Council. Andy has a strong background in vehicle engineering, specialising in powertrain developments, fuel efficiency and emissions. As MD he has been closely involved in the design and implementation of the latest testing and accreditation schemes for a variety of vehicles, including buses and HGVs and most recently leading the work on retrofit emissions technology accreditation. Andy and the LowCVP have a key role supporting DfT, DEFRA and OLEV in stimulating the uptake of low carbon and low emission technologies across all vehicle sectors. The LowCVP have long championed the need for low carbon fuels and energy used in the most efficient clean vehicles and their work with the government aims to accelerate the market to achieve this. Andy is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Finn Coyle: Environmental Manager, Transport Emissions, Transport for London

Finn Coyle is a Mechanical Engineer with a background in diesel engine performance and emissions development. Finn presently works for Transport for London in the Strategy Directorate as Principal Technical Specialist, Transport Emissions where he is responsible for promoting, developing and implementing environmental policies and strategies for the bus fleet.

Iain Miller: Head of Innovation, Northern Powergrid

Iain Miller is currently Head of Innovation for Northern Powergrid (part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy) where his principal activity is electricity distribution for the North East and Yorkshire. Joining in 1992 he worked in asset management, system design, and project management, plus training other utilities in asset management practice. He was part of the senior asset management team from 2005 to 2016 as Head of System Design, including working on RIIO-ED1 and the smartgrids part of the CMA appeal and moved to the post of Head of Innovation in September 2016 with interests in storage, electric vehicles and innovation across the distribution companies within the BHE group.

Derek McCreadie: i-Travel Programme Manager, City of York Council

Derek McCreadie has worked closely with bus operators, manufacturers and infrastructure providers to enable the use of electric buses in York. There are two Park&Rides in York which are fully electric, using opportunity rapid charging to boost the range to meet the duty cycle. Derek also pioneered the use of electric retrofitting into city sightseeing tour buses and is currently working on the design for next generation rapid charging to be used with electric buses at the four remaining Park&Ride sites in 2018.

Steve Cornes: Principal Project Officer, Nottingham City Council

Steve Cornes was initially recruited to Nottingham City Council (NCC) into the Energy and Sustainability team as Staff Travel Co-ordinator and as a result of his previous work experience, quickly became involved with the wider green agenda. After a move to the Public Transport Team, he was recruited as co-lead on a project to trial bioethanol buses in the city, liasing with Nottingham University consultants, Nottingham City Transport and other key stakeholders. Since 2009, he has been project managing the NCC Electric Bus Project, which successfully capitalised on every round of the Government’s Green Bus Fund to eventually realise a £14M electric bus fleet, containing 58 vehicles (the largest such fleet in Europe), along with the construction and installation of associated charging facilities at bases across the city.

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