Winter Service Session 22 - Innovation in Infrastructure and Organisation
Friday, March 13
11:30
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13:00
Chair: Luis Ayres, Director Técnico / Api
Movilidad, S.A., Spain
Room: Hall E
This session presented innovative approaches to infrastructure and organizational strategies in winter maintenance, with speakers from the call for papers. Topics included advanced systems to mitigate concrete deterioration and environmental impact, the use of GIS for efficient route planning, reinforcement learning frameworks for optimizing road maintenance, and managerial strategies to improve worker safety through data, materials, and C-ITS integration. Together, these contributions highlighted how technology and organizational innovation could enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability in winter service operations.
Welcome and session introduction
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Session materials
Presentations
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Mitigating Concrete Deterioration and Environmental Impact: An Advanced System for Winter Road Safety
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Efficient planning of winter maintenance routes using GIS
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A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Optimizing Winter Road Maintenance Using Deep Q-Networks
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A manager's strategy for improving the safety of winter maintenance workers through the data-materials-C-ITS triad
Questions and Answers
• Moderator: Luis Ayres, Director Técnico / Api Movilidad, S.A., Spain
Conclusion
• Luis Ayres, Director Técnico / Api Movilidad, S.A., Spain
Organization
Session Organiser: Horst Hanke, Leader of the German Winter Service Committee, Germany
Session Secretary: [To be confirmed]