Conference Scope

The purpose of the 21st Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Conference in Australia is to bring together engineers, researchers, legislators and practitioners as well as the public who are interested in the advances and application of Autonomous Vehicle Technology in both on and off-road environments. This includes personal transport, public transport, logistics transport, agriculture, mining and military transport.

Australia is leading the world in the uptake of technology in areas such as the first real-time adaptive controls for traffic systems, automatic tolling systems such as e-tag and number plate recognition, traffic-systems connected route guidance, optimized door to door freight logistics, driverless trucks in mining and semi-autonomous farm tractors and more.

The conference will focus on innovative applications, manufacturing, tools, platforms and solutions in all technology areas such as the applications of signal processing, wireless communications, informatics and electronics, related to different types of vehicles such as cars, trucks, buses, off-road vehicles, trams and the intelligent transportation system that connects and manages large numbers of vehicles, not only in the context of smart cities but in many other regional and remote locations with little infrastructure support.

The Conference theme “Harmonising the Future of Mobility” reflects the forthcoming significant changes. Autonomous Vehicle Technology is the technological breakthrough of the future for a myriad of reasons: safety, efficiency, connectivity, industry 4.0, smart cities, cost and reliability.

The 21st APAC Conference will bring this knowledge to Australia so that delegates will benefit from the technology that is coming to our region.

Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed above. Accepted papers presented at the conference, will be published in the Proceedings of the 21^st APAC Conference. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and accuracy. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome.

Special sessions, dedicated to case studies and commercial presentations, are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding workshops or special sessions are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.