Commercial Vehicle Technology 2010

These proceedings are a collection of selected papers presented at the 1st Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium (CVT 2010). The symposium organized by the Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology (ZNT), the Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster Digital Engineering for Commercial Vehicles (DNT), and the Commercial Vehicle Cluster (CVC), is held on March 16 to 18, 2010 at the University of Kaiserslautern.

The CVT 2010 is a forum for researchers and developers from industry and academia to exchange ideas on current topics and discuss the latest trends in this field. At Kaiserslautern, innovation in the domain of commercial vehicles that includes trucks, buses, agricultural, and construction machinery, as well as special-purpose vehicles is driven by a constantly growing network encompassing development, research, and communication. In 2005 the Commercial Vehicle Cluster (CVC) was founded by the state of Rheinland-Pfalz in cooperation with University of Kaiserslautern and Daimler AG. It serves as an information and cooperation platform for companies from this domain and drives continous exchange with research institutions. The two Fraunhofer institutes (ITWM and IESE) founded the Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster Digital Engineering for Commercial Vehicles (DNT) as a research group since 2006. University of Kaiserslautern itself established the Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology (ZNT) as a technology focus in 2007 and offers an international and inter-disciplinary master course of studies in Commercial Vehicle Technology (CVT) since 2008.