WINTER MAINTENANCE IN EUROPE - PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
Effective snow and ice control is an important service for national governments, in order to ensure as far as possible, that road users can travel safely and with minimum disruption in cold and severe climatic conditions, Since national and European road networks have developed substantially over recent decades, so too has the need for innovative snow and ice control techniques and processes. Practices, standards, level of equipment differ among European countries depending on national government and climatic zones. The European Commission project entitled COST Action 344: "Improvements to snow and ice control on European roads and bridges" is an exchange platform between 19 European Countries. This three year project began in 1999 and is part of COST Transport "Research for sustainable mobility". The paper describes the project that will provide improvements in the area of program management, quality of operation for planning, operational practice, less harmful anti-icing products and spreading controls, measures to treat modern surfaces and better driver information.
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Authors:
- Giloppe, D
- BURTWELL, M
- Bald, S
- Muzet, V
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Conference:
- 11th International Road Weather Conference (http://www.sirwec.org)
- Location: Sapporo, Japan
- Date: 2002-1-26 to 2002-1-28
- Publication Date: 2002
Language
- English
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Climatic regions; Operations; Planning; Program management; Quality assurance; Safety; Snow and ice control; Winter maintenance
- Identifier Terms: European Commission
- Geographic Terms: Europe; European Union countries
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00942002
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 15 2003 12:00AM