PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH SIRWEC CONFERENCE, SMOLENICE, SLOVAKIA (29th MAY-1ST JUNE 2018)
All abstracts are available in Book of Abstracts. Links below are to the presentations. A separate file for conference program is available.
TOPIC #1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Overview of the road weather forecasting activities at SHMÚ
Richard Habrovsky (Slovakia, SHMÚ)
TOPIC #2: NOVEL APPROACHES IN ROAD WEATHER SYSTEMS
2.1 Network design considerations for a new generation of high resolution road weather information systems
Lee Chapman (UK, University of Birmingham)
2.2 Wyoming connected vehicle pilot to manage road weather impacts
Rhonda Kae Young (USA, Gonzaga University)
2.3 RSI – a glimpse of the future for winter maintenance
Esben Almkvist (Sweden, Klimator)
2.4 Fleet based road weather monitoring
Arto Niskanen (Finland, RoadCloud)
2.5 Image-based Automated Winter Road Condition Monitoring – a Deep Learning Approach
Liping Fu (Canada, University of Waterloo)
TOPIC #3: ROAD WEATHER MANAGEMENT AND WINTER MAINTENANCE
3.1 Advanced road weather and maintenance information system in the Czech Republic
David Konecny (Czech Republic, CROSS)
3.2 Optimizing surface condition management
Arnaud X. Varé (Switzerland, Boschung Mecatronic)
TOPIC #4: RWIS SENSORS & EQUIPMENT
4.1 Test methods for sensors of road weather stations
Horst Badelt (Germany, Federal Highway research Institute)
4.2 Innovative detection of road surface conditions in two dimensions by 2DRoad
Tomáš Juřík (Czech Republic, MetSense)
4.3 Digitalization and road weather forecasts to help decision making for road maintenance
Janne Miettinen (Finland, Finnish Meteorological Institute)
4.4 Selected weather facts on the example of a fixed automated spraying system in Pilisvörösvár (Hungary)
Jan Szczerbiński (Switzerland, Boschung Mecatronic)
4.5 Amount of salt versus freezing point
Kimmo Kynnös (Finland, Vaisala)
TOPIC #5: SYSTEMS / DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
5.1 MDSS in Slovenia – experiences after 2 years of operation
Samo Carman (Slovenia, CGS Labs)
5.2 MDSS snow accumulation percentage based on road segment maintenance requirements
Samu Karanko (Finland, Foreca)
5.3 Thermal mapping in flat lowlands and undulating uplands – a comparison of results
Lauryna Šidlauskaitė (Lithuania, Vilnius university)
TOPIC #6: ADVANCES IN ROAD WEATHER FORECASTING
6.1 Operational experience with ICEWARN model (METRO-CZ) in comparison with other tools
Jan Sulan (Czech Republic, CHMI)
6.2 Decision guidance with probabilistic road forecast
Henry Odbert (UK, Met Office)
6.3 Route based road condition forecast using mobile sensors
Karl E. Schedler (Germany, KSConsulting)
6.4 A route-based forecasting model of road surface friction and snow/ice conditions
Teruyuki Fukuhara (Japan, Hiroshima Institute of Technology)
6.5 Use errors in observation data to discover valuable information for road forecasting
Ingeborg Smeding (Netherlands, MeteoGroup)
6.6 Experimental road weather forecasting in Hungary
Andre Simon (Hungary, Hungarian Meteorological Institute)
6.7 Verification results for road surface temperature forecasts utilizing mobile observations
Virve Karsisto (Finland, Finnish Meteorological Institute)
TOPIC #7: METEOROLOGICAL & CLIMATOLOGICAL STUDIES
7.1 A road state climatology from the global weather corporation road weather forecasts
Danny Chereshnick (USA, Global Weather Corporation)
7.2 Future climate conditions for summer roads in Lithuania
Justas Kažys (Lithuania, Vilnius University)
7.3 Relationship between the development of a snowdrift and snow transport rate on a road section with a cut on one side – observation in Teshikaga-cho during wintertime in FY2016 and FY2017
Hirotaka Takechi (Japan, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region)
7.4 A Geostatistical Approach to Classification of Topography and Climate Zones for RWIS Network Planning
Tae J. Kwon (Canada, University of Alberta)
7.5 Visibility monitoring and forecasting system for traffic safety
Branislav Jaros (Slovakia, Microstep-MIS)
7.6 Visibility estimation based on camera data and weather parameters
Marjo Hippi (Finland, Finnish Meteorological Institute)
POSTER SESSION
P.1 Erika Toivonen (Finland, Finnish Meteorological Institute)
Validation of road weather model roadsurf in fennoscandia using regional climate model data
P.2 Zacharov Petr (Czech Republic, Czech Academy of Sciences)
ICEWARN – road weather forecasting for Prague city
P.3 Joris Van den Bergh (Belgium, Royal Meteorological Institute Belgium)
Road weather forecasting in Belgium
P.4 Olga Gladysheva (Russia, Voronezh State Technical University)
The winter maintenance of roads sites with snowdrift
P.5 Hella Riede (Germany, Deutcher Wetterdienst)
FlowKar: Using high-resolution data from vehicle sensors to improve operational weather products
P.6 Mark Vinogradov (Russia, Institute of Radar Meteorology)
Automatic anti-icing spraying system on the west high speed diameter in Saint-Petersburg
P.7 Satoshi Omiya (Japan, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region)
Proposal of a correction coefficient for the estimation of ground snowfall amounts based on x-band multiple parameter radar precipitation data
P.8 Peter Fabo (Slovakia, University of Zilina)
Detecting the hydrometeors based on multifrequency passive monitoring of mobile network stations signals
P.9 Ján Barani (Slovakia, Barani design Technologies)
P.10 Pavel Sedlák (Czech Republic, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Influence of shading and sky-view factor on road temperature forecast