Editorial

by Keiichi Inoue

What's new?

• Calendar
• What's new? PIARC meetings in Incheon - The Moscow Conference - DIRCAIBEA 2009
• Updates: Mexico 2011, TC A.2, Finland, Portugal

Features

• Introduction - G. Öberg, P. Pisano
• Assessing new winter maintenance management approaches at the Ministère des Transports of Québec - Y. Berger, S. Arsenault
• Interaction in road maintenance planning - P. Patrikainen, A. Kalliokoski
• Discussion on the practical application of DSCR in measures to counter visibility hazards in cold areas with heavy snowfall - K. Kawamata, Y. Karino, J.-I. Tanaka, Y. Yamamura
• The importance of winter maintenance for cyclists - A. Niska
• Development of a system for flexible shifting of snow removal sections using real-time positioning information on snow removal machinery - M. Makino, N. Sasaki, Y. Yanagisawa, K. Onodera, M. Toyoshima
• Improving road weather products with vehicle probe data - S. Drobot, M. B. Chapman, E. Schüler, G. Wiener, W. P. Mahoney, P. Pisano, B. Mckeever, A. Stern
• Skid resistance of porous asphalt pavement under winter conditions - K. Maruyama , K. Fuse, M. Kumagai
• Distribution of de-icing salts on the road surface - G. Hausmann, H. Badelt
• Research on environmental impact of spread de-icing salts - Y. Yamamoto, S. Sone, K. Kimura , Y. Namikawa
• The environmental sub-model of the Swedish winter model - G. Blomqvist, M. Gustafsson
• Analysis of regional climate model simulations of transport-related climate indices over Southern Quebec - D. Chaumont, R.D. Brown
• What impact will climate change have on roads in Sweden and how to deal with it? - H. Nordlander

Road stories

Removal of snow in Vienna in 1910 - Ludwig Spängler

Publications

Summaries

Note to the authors