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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 21 - Use of Digital data to assist Winter Service

Friday, March 13 09:30 - 11:00
Chair: Nick Russell, Amey, United Kingdom
Room: Room 1

This session highlights how digital data is transforming winter service operations, with speakers from the call for papers. Presentations will introduce the concept of the Digital Tunnel, showcase digital road information systems for resilient municipal maintenance, explore advanced visibility estimation using CCTV and on‑board cameras, and share experiences from the digitalization of winter maintenance in the Bratislava region. Together, these contributions demonstrate the growing role of digital tools in improving efficiency, safety, and sustainability in winter road management.

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

Welcome and session introduction

• Nick Russell, Amey, United Kingdom

Presentations

  • Introducing the "digital tunnel"
    • Harald Aksnes LERVIK (RoadTech AS, Norway)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 556KB)
  • Digital Winter Road Information for Resilient and Efficient Municipal Winter Road Maintenance
    • Linda WENNBOM (ViaPM AB, Sweden)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 406KB)
  • Estimation of Visibility Information at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution by Combining Visibility Measured by CCTV Cameras and On-board Video Cameras in Winter.
    • TORU HAGIWARA (Professor Emeritus (Hokkaido university, Japan), Japan)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 2.3MB)
  • Digitalization of winter maintenance in the Bratislava region
    • Samek MARTIN (Company - Road Administration of the Bratislava Self-Goverment Region, Slovak Republic)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 374KB)

Questions and Answers

• Moderator: Nick Russell, Amey, United Kingdom

Conclusion

• Nick Russell, Amey, United Kingdom

Organization

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