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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.

  • Traffic ability of heavy vehicles on an incline

    Road freight operators are well aware that the combination of trucks/heavy vehicles, slopes and snowfall most often leads to difficulties or even traffic jams, yet only very few objective findings are available to qualify each of these components. Norway has conducted an analysis of factors influencing the ability of trucks to circulate under such conditions.

  • Materials and technologies for winter road maintenance in Lithuania

    The certification of products used to provide winter service remains a very current topic; the next step calls for determining product performance and ensuring its harmlessness for the environment. This step relies on laboratory studies and full-scale testing. A very thorough research effort was completed in Lithuania and has been partially presented herein.

  • Sapporo winter road management plans

    Winter service management also entails certain societal aspects capable of satisfying sustainable development concerns; for over 20 years, the city of Sapporo (Japan) has been developing an approach that places emphasis on the user/resident and is aimed at generating a real dynamic along with a genuine wintertime culture.

  • Improving the resilience of the United Kingdom's road network to the impact of severe winter weather

    Climate change is often manifested by extreme weather events. Three harsh winters with heavy snowfall struck the United Kingdom between 2008 and 2011, causing major disturbances to road traffic and the replenishment of road salt supplies. Yet adversity does produce positive effects and can lead to improving organization and practices; this is the kind of feedback being proposed by our British colleague.

  • A benefit-cost approach to level of service standards for winter road maintenance

    As budgetary constraints force program adaptations, it has become necessary to contemplate the level of service definitions and associated costs; the Ontario methodological approach consists of an analysis of both direct and indirect costs relative to the benefits derived by society.