WINTER ROAD SURFACE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY USING MAGNETIC SENSORS

This paper describes how an information technology that has advanced with great speed over the past few years is the technology associated with winter road management. Even with these advancements, it is still necessary to develop a winter road surface management system in order to meet the increasingly advanced public expectations of snow removal and also to overcome chronic problems such as a shortage of workers and the aging of the available work force. As a way of resolving this problem, a winter road surface management system using magnetic sensors is proposed as a highly practical technology that will permit more stable and reliable performance of an effective and efficient task including snow removal and ice prevention. Where this system is installed, magnetic sensors will detect the magnetic fields generated by an electric current passing through electric wires buried under the road surfaces (signal wires) and the information will be used to guide and support winter road management operations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conference Proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Oshima, J
  • Shimomura, C
• Conference:
  • New Challenges for Winter Road Service. XIth International Winter Road Congress
  • Location: Sapporo, Japan
  • Date: 2002-1-28 to 2002-1-31
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Magnetic detectors; Performance evaluations; Road weather information systems; Sensors; Snow and ice control; Winter maintenance
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00925093
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 3 2002 12:00AM