Increased Resilience of Earthworks on State Roads in Northern Spain – Lessons Learned between 2011 and 2018

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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 [...]

XXVI World Road Congress – Abu Dhabi, October 2019 Connecting Cultures, Enabling Economies - General Report

The General Report of the XXVI World Road Congress has been prepared by GHD under contract with the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport, on behalf of the United Arab Emirates. It has not been possible to include the conclusions of all sessions in this report. They will be available from PIARC’s website.

Can we trust the road sensors for winter service?

This article describes a 5-year collaborative Nordic project was launched by NordFoU in 2014, under the title ROad STate MOnitoring System (ROSTMOS), with representatives and experts from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and partly Finland to map and implement the challenges faced by Nordic road authorities when using sensors.