The full one-day workshop consisted of four technical sessions and a technical exhibition with a large number of participants including experts from governments, academia and the private sector both from Italy and abroad.

During the opening session, welcome addresses were delivered by Prof. Gianpaolo Rosati, Polytechnic University of Milan (PoliMI), Prof. Manuela Grecchi, PoliMI, Mrs Cinzia Secchi, Engineer from Lombardia regional government, and Mr Robin Sébille, Deputy Secretary General of the World Road Association, followed by opening remarks by Prof. Keiichi Tamura, Chair of TC 1.5. Lastly, Prof. Maurizio Crispino, PoliMI made a welcome address and an introductory presentation, as the workshop organizer.

The first session was mainly composed of international presentations. They covered a wide variety of risk and emergency management methodologies and applications, such as the importance of risk management in the road planning and design phases, risk-based maintenance strategy for expressway structures, risks associated with a tunnel running along a river, and emergency evacuation strategy.

The other three sessions consisted of Italian presentations on road risk and emergency management. The second session mainly focused on road operation management including tunnel fire management (a brand new technology for immediate fire extinguishing was presented) and dangerous goods transportation. Profitable experience exchange came from airport pavement management and from practice concerning snowstorms management. Presentations in the third session discussed topics such as climate changes, hydrogeological risks, and teaching experience of road risk management. The fourth session featured earthquake engineering from a viewpoint of risk management and management of infrastructure risk.

Lastly, in the closing session, Prof. Maurizio Crispino stated the importance of risk management in the current road engineering practice and, above all, the importance of cooperation between different stakeholders, practitioners, technicians and scientists to share knowledge and experience about tools, methodologies and technologies for the progress of risk management. Prof. Keiichi Tamura finally expressed in his remarks cordial appreciation to all the contributors who planned, organized and attended the notable technical event.