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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 19 -Winter Service in Urban Areas

Thursday, March 12 11:30 - 13:00
Chair: Dr. Peter Nutz, City of Vienna, Austria
Room: Room 2

This session focuses on innovative approaches for winter service in urban environments, featuring contributions that address both traditional and emerging challenges in city contexts. Presentations will explore rubber‑ice friction testing to better understand how ice surface design influences safety, the development of snow‑melting pavement using high‑thermal‑conductive concrete mixed with synthetic graphite, and strategies for advancing winter road management in non‑snowy metropolitan regions such as Greater Tokyo. The session also expands the discussion to include the dynamics of urban heat islands and the role of cooling networks in shaping resilient urban climates. Together, these perspectives highlight diverse solutions for ensuring safe, efficient, and sustainable winter maintenance across different urban settings.

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

Welcome and session introduction

• Dr. Peter Nutz, City of Vienna, Austria

Presentations

  • Rubber-Ice Friction Testing: The Effect of Ice Surface Design
    • Kitti CSAJBÓK (Department of Sustainable Materials and Packaging, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden & Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, Norway)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1.1MB)
  • Snow-melting pavement using high-thermal-conductive concrete mixed with synthetic graphite
    • Takashi KAWAMURA (Shinshu University, Japan)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 4.1MB)
  • Developing Winter Road Management for the Non-snowy Greater Tokyo Area
    • Tomotaka IGAKI (Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited, Japan)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1019KB)

Urban heat islands and cooling networks
• Sebald TURPIN, France

Questions and Answers

• Moderator: Dr. Peter Nutz, City of Vienna, Austria

Conclusion

• Dr. Peter Nutz, City of Vienna, Austria

Organization

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