PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH SIRWEC CONFERENCE, BINGEN, GERMANY (16-18TH JUNE 2004)
Road weather 30 Years – hindsight, insight, foresight
A. Keskinen
TOPIC 1: CLIMATOLOGY, WEATHER CONDITIONS
Industrial snow
O. Liechti
Meteorological factors associated with avalanches in the Lake Shikotsu area and their application to road management
T. Miyoshi, Y. Kajiya, M. Matsuzawa, T. Suzuki
Experiences with hoar-frost and its monitoring in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic
J. Sulan
Using taxi GPS to gather high-quality traffic data for winter road management. Evaluation in Sapporo, Japan
N. Takahashi, S. Miyamoto, M. Asano
Height-dependent difference in visibility on roads
M. Matsuzawa, Y. Kajiya
Wind and air temperature distributions in the wake of a running vehicle
T. Sato, K. Kosugi, O. Abe, S. Mochizuki, S. Koseki
Variation in meteorological variables in mountainous regions and their effects on road surface temperature prediction
N. Sato, J.E. Thornes, T. Maruyama, A. Sugimura, T. Yamada.
TOPIC 2: FORECAST METHODS AND ACCURACY
Nowcasting nocturnal cloudiness with an ultra-dense road weather measurement network
T. Grimbacher, W. Schmid
Monitoring precipitation intensity and type: Combined use of radar and temperature measurements
U. Gjertsen, J.I. Dahl, V. Ødegaard, A. Kristensen
NEMEFO: NEural MEteorological FOrecast
E. Pasero, W. Moniaci, T. Meindl, A. Montuori
Improvements in road forecasting techniques and their applications.
P. Hopwood
Providing an optimized dataset for road weather forecasts
M. John, W.E. Raatz
A coupled automatic road-weather forecasting system.
B.H. Sass and C. Petersen
Road ice prediction using geomatics
L. Chapman, J.E. Thornes
The use of GIS and Icemiser to predict winter road surface temperatures in Poland
J.E. Thornes, G. Cavan, L. Chapman
Use of data on road condition and weather for winter maintenance
H. Badelt, K. Moritz
Topographical boundary layer model for road weather prediction
O. Liechti
TOPIC 3: SENSORS AND EQUIPMENT
An experimental study on drying-up paved surfaces
R. Deckert, T. Hauf
Finnish road weather camera system
E. Lahtinen, J. Kantonen
Laser Road Surface Sensor – LRSS
T.A. Paulsen, P. Schmokel
Testing sensors for road weather systems
H. Badelt, R. Seliger
How to measure the energy balance of a road surface
E. Almkvist, C. Jansson
TOPIC 4: PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF ROAD WEATHER INFORMATION DATA
Smart Sapporo snow information experiment: Personalized road weather information services using XML technology
H. Kagaya, Y. Kajiya, Y. Yamagiwa
Flow and presentation of road weather data and winter maintenance activities on the Internet
S. Sigurdsson
Validation of methods to detect winter precipitation and retrieve precipitation type
W. Schmid, A. Mathis
Winter weather and municipal winter road maintenance
M. Eriksson, A. Johnansson
Quality for road weather information system: Applying ISO9001
T. Iivanainen, M. Pettersson
Supporting IT system for road weather quality management
K. Toivonen, J. Kantonen
TOPIC 5: WINTER MAINTENANCE: MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS AND POLICY
Optimization of winter maintenance on heavily travelled freeways
T. Cypra
Research on the level of winter road management
T. Yamada, A. Sugimura, T. Maruyama
Implantation of a winter-maintenance–management-system for an optimised intervention control
H. Hanke
Surface condition management: A global concept for winter maintenance operations
P-A. Brodard
Icelandic winter maintenance management system
N. Jonasson, E. Palsson
Operational use of weather forecasts in winter maintenance: A matrix based approach
W.A. Nixon, R. Stowe
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration Winter Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) project
P.A. Pisano, A.D. Stern, W.P. Mahoney III
Cost performance of pipe heating system by thermal energy in mountain tunnel
K. Tsuji, I. Yoshitake, S. Nagai, S. Hamada
A simulation tool for the hydronic bridge snow melting system
X. Liu, J.D. Spitler
Influence of heating pipe on snow melting and mechanical properties
Y. Mimura, I. Yoshitake, K. Tsuji