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

Winter Service Session 11 - AI for road status information

Wednesday, March 11 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: Markus Nilsson, Service Manager / Fintraffic Road Ltd, Finland
Room: Room 1

The session highlights how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing winter road maintenance, with the speakers from the call for papers. Presentations showcase a regional web-camera network for snow and ice detection (Japan), real-time prediction models to optimize maintenance strategies (Austria), new methods to measure and control hoarfrost as an underestimated hazard (Austria), and integrated salt/brine management using meteorological, geolocation, traffic, and residual salt data applied to mobile workforce systems (Switzerland). Together, these contributions demonstrate how AI-driven solutions enhance safety, efficiency, and decision-making in winter service operations.

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

Welcome and session introduction

• Markus Nilsson, Service Manager / Fintraffic Road Ltd, Finland

Presentations

  • Development of a new system that provides snow-ice information incorporating various measuring devices and data by using a regional WEB-Camera System Network as a base station
    Yutaka SUYA (Yamada Giken Co., Ltd., Japan)
  • Optimization of winter maintenance strategies with real-time prediction
    Markus HOFFMANN (Hoffmann Consult and TU Wien, Institute of Transportation, Vienna, AT, Austria)
  • Hoarfrost in Winter Maintenance – the underestimated “danger”: Measurement, Prediction & Control
    Markus HOFFMANN (Hoffmann Consult and TU Wien, Institute of Transportation, Vienna, AT, Austria)
  • Salt/Brine Real Time Management using Meteorological, geolocation, Traffic information as well as residual salt on the road ,applied to Mobile Workforce Management
    Arnaud GISIGER (Provatis SA, France)

Questions and Answers

• Moderator: Markus Nilsson, Service Manager / Fintraffic Road Ltd, Finland

Conclusion

• Markus Nilsson, Service Manager / Fintraffic Road Ltd, Finland

Organization

Session Organiser: Horst Hanke, Leader of the German Winter Service Committee, Germany
Session Secretary: [To be confirmed]