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17TH World Congress on Road Winter Service, Resilience and Decarbonisation - Pre-proceedings of the Congress

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Strategic Direction Session on Winter Service - Strategic Aspects of Winter Service

Tuesday, March 10 14:30 - 16:00
Chair: Keiichi TAMURA, Strategic Theme 3 Coordinator, PIARC, Japan
Room: Hall E

This Strategic Direction Session is organized by Keiichi TAMURA, PIARC Strategic Theme 3 Coordinator. It will explore challenges related to winter service and policy directions to address them from both operational and strategic perspectives. The session will also include a report from TC 3.2 on winter service. Presenters have been selected to ensure balanced representation from across the globe.

The Snow and Ice Databook (SIDB) will be featured in this Strategic Direction Session. SIDB is one of PIARC's flagship technical reports, published every four years on the occasion of the World Winter Road Congress. SIDB serves as not only a state-of-the-art report in winter service but also a country report for many PIARC member countries.

This Strategic Direction Session will provide an ideal opportunity to discuss the current practice and future course of winter service in road administration.

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Questions and Answers
  4. Conclusion
  5. Organization

Welcome and session introduction

• Keiichi TAMURA, Strategic Theme 3 Coordinator, PIARC, Japan

Presentations

  • Report from TC 3.2
    • Anna ARVIDSSON (Sweden) - Senior Researcher, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute
  • Winter Maintenance in France: Which challenges, perspectives and orientations?
    • Sylvain REALLON (France) - Director, State Road Network Management and Traffic Information, Ministry of Transport
  • Winter service maintenance in Canada
    • Mohammad TAYYARAN (Canada) - Manager of Engineering, Transport Canada
  • Current developments in winter service maintenance in Germany
    • Thorsten CYPRA (Germany) - Professor, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Saarland University of Applied Sciences
  • Winter service at Hungarian public roads
    • Shaun BORTEI-DOKU (Hungary) - Operations and Maintenance Engineer, Hungarian Public Roads
  • Current practice for winter service in Japan
    • Ryuji SOMA (Japan) - Chief Official for Road Disaster Prevention - Road Risk Management Office - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)
  • Challenges in winter road maintenance in the Nordic countries
    • Bard NONSTAD (Norway) - Senior Principal Engineer, Norwegian Public Roads Administration
    • Christian ERIKSSON (Sweden) - National Coordinator for Winter Maintenance, Swedish Transport Administration
    • Markus NILSSON (Fintraffic Road Ltd., Finland) - Service Manager

Questions and Answers

Conclusion

• Keiichi TAMURA, Strategic Theme 3 Coordinator, PIARC, Japan

Organization

• Session Organiser: Keiichi TAMURA, Strategic Theme 3 Coordinator, PIARC, Japan
• Session Moderator: Peter NUTZ, Head, Department of Winter Service, City of Vienna, Austria
• Session Secretary: Go HIROCHI, Technical Advisor for Strategic Theme 3, PIARC, Japan