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

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Winter Service Session 13 - Decision support for winter maintenance

Wednesday, March 11 16:00 - 17:30
Chair: Jarkko Pirinen, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Finland
Room: Room 1

The session highlights how data, simulations, and digital tools are transforming decision-making in winter road management, with speakers from the call for papers. Presentations include the Winter Road Intelligence Project from Denmark, which leverages standardization and technology to turn data into actionable insights; advanced simulation approaches from Norway that unlock strategic value in winter maintenance planning; a Japanese system that uses digital archives of severe snow and blizzard events to support operational decisions; and a disaster risk management platform from Japan designed to strengthen resilience in winter service. Together, these contributions showcase how innovative decision-support systems are enabling smarter, safer, and more efficient winter maintenance strategies worldwide.

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

Welcome and session introduction

• Jarkko Pirinen, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Finland

Presentations

  • Winter Road Intelligence Project – From data to decisions through standardization and technology
    • Magnus BENDSEN (Vejdirektoratet (The Danish Road Directorate), Denmark)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 823KB)
  • Unlocking Strategic Value in Winter Maintenance Simulations
    • Nafiseh MOHAMMADI (NTNU - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norway)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 898KB)
  • Development of a System to Support Decision-Making on Winter Road Management Using Digital Archives of Severe Blowing-Snow and Heavy Snowfall Disasters
    • Yusuke HARADA (Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, Japan)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 4.7MB)
  • Strategic Disaster Risk Management System
    • Takuro HANYU (Weathernews Inc., Japan)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 4.8MB)

Questions and Answers

• Moderator: Jarkko Pirinen, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Finland

Conclusion

• Jarkko Pirinen, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Finland

Organization

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