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Publications Routes/Roads Winter Service

This page lists publications (Routes/Roads articles, Congresses proceedings) of PIARC in the field of winter service. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Climate Resilience in the Road Sector in Mozambique

    Mozambique is a coastal country constituted by a relief in the form of a stairway that decreases in altitude as we move from the interior to the coast. The hydrographic network is made up of rivers that run from West to East and nine of these originate in neighboring countries, this fact contributes to the record of frequent floods and/or floods in the lowlands.

  • Development of a Doctrine on the Use of Abrasives in France

    Abrasives have been used for a long time and quite frequently for winter maintenance. However, the materials and practices used vary greatly and as things stand there are no reference document in France.

  • Development of Anti-Icer Spreading Support Technology Based on Operator’s Mental Workload Evaluation

    The authors have been working to establish an anti-icer spreading support technology that is inexpensive, does not depend on the operator’s skill level, and enables reliable and safe operation by a one-person work vehicle. Therefore, in the early studies, a series of experiments on the test track were performed. The benefits and problems that the spreading support brings to the operators by examining their mental workload as a function of the presence or absence and type of support were extracted. [...]

  • Risk Management for a disaster with “Road-On Map”

    This paper presents the implementation of providing traffic information using the Road-On Map in order to accomplish rapid and reliable traffic management in the southern area of Kumamoto Prefecture following the heavy rainfall disaster in July 2020. ETC2.0 probe data collected from vehicles equipped with ETC2.0-compatible on-board units are used by Road-On Map to determine whether or not roads are passable. It has been difficult to rapidly and efficiently provide traffic information using real-time [...]