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

Winter Service Session 22 - Innovation in Infrastructure and Organisation

Friday, March 13 11:30 - 13:00
Chair: Luis Ayres, Director Técnico / Api Movilidad, S.A., Spain
Room: Hall E

This session presents innovative approaches to infrastructure and organizational strategies in winter maintenance, with speakers from the call for papers. Topics include advanced systems to mitigate concrete deterioration and environmental impact, the use of GIS for efficient route planning, reinforcement learning frameworks for optimizing road maintenance, and managerial strategies to improve worker safety through data, materials, and C‑ITS integration. Together, these contributions highlight how technology and organizational innovation can enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability in winter service operations

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

Welcome and session introduction

• Luis Ayres, Director Técnico / Api Movilidad, S.A., Spain

Presentations

  • Mitigating Concrete Deterioration and Environmental Impact: An Advanced System for Winter Road Safety
    Oscar BORLA (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
  • Efficient planning of winter maintenance routes using GIS
    Alexander ZIDEK (ms.GIS informationssysteme, Austria)
  • A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Optimizing Winter Road Maintenance Using Deep Q-Networks
    Zhen (Leo) LIU (University of Virginia, United States)
  • A manager's strategy for improving the safety of winter maintenance workers through the data-materials-C-ITS triad
    MICHAEL LANGLET (ministère, France)

Questions and Answers

• Moderator: Luis Ayres, Director Técnico / Api Movilidad, S.A., Spain

Conclusion

• Luis Ayres, Director Técnico / Api Movilidad, S.A., Spain

Organization

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