To download documents from the Pre-Proceedings website, you must be registered for the conference and logged in to the conference platform.

• IP0293 - Practices for Acquiring and Handing Down Snow Removal Skills in the Age of Information and Communications Technology
  Nobuyoshi KONISHI , Shigeyuki NAKAMAE , Tsuyoshi HATORI , Tomoaki FUNAMI , Yuka MIHARA , Fumihiro HARA , Kimiyoshi KURAUCHI
  Individual paper (pdf - 926KB)

  Demographic aging among snow removal operators and shortages of new recruits have become issues across the heavy-snowfall regions of Japan. This study aims to understand how snow removal operators acquire and pass on their skills based on individual experience and to explore ways of ensuring the smooth succession and retention of these operators. We started by examining the techniques that constitute [...]