Virtual International Seminar 13 – 15 December 2021

WINTER SERVICE ON ROADS
AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES

About the seminar

The Virtual International Seminar “Winter service on roads and other public places” will run from 13 to 15 December. It will be jointly organised by the World Road Association (PIARC), the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Infrastructure Association. It will be held in virtual (online) format and organised from Ukraine (Kyiv).

Jointly organised by PIARC Technical Committees and the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the seminar will be attended by representatives of governments and affiliated agencies, as well as experts and researchers from numerous countries. They will share their knowledge and expertise, discuss ideas and experiences, transfer information and technologies and examine a wide selection of questions to improve winter service on roads and public spaces.

For this event, PIARC Technical Committees and the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine will jointly contribute to the seminar’s programme. The seminar will showcase global and local policy, strategy, innovation, and success that can be shared and used around the world by the global PIARC community.

ONLINE, ORGANISED FROM KYIV (UKRAINE)

DATE:

13 – 15 December 2021, 2pm – 5pm Ukraine Time (1pm – 4pm CET)

LANGUAGES:

English and Ukrainian with simultaneous translation

FEE:

free of charge

video

Presentations

New and old spreading technique

PIARC

DIGITALISATION  OF ROAD SECTOR
UKRAINE’S ROAD NETWORK: OPERATION SCOPE
AVTOSTRADA’S WINTER ROAD MAINTENANCE: ADVANCE PREPAREDNESS, QUALITY AND INNOVATIONS
Implementation of the Output and Performance-Based Road Contracts (OPRC) in Ukraine
Winter Service and Operation on Cement Concrete Roads in Ukraine

RDS

OUTPUT & PERFORMANCE-BASED ROAD CONTRACT (OPRC) M06 KYIV-CHOP: К М 434+230 – К М 621+500
OUTPUT-AND PERFORMANCE BASED ROAD CONTRACT (OPRC)

ONUR GROUP

CHALLENGES IN THE SOUTH REGIONS OF UKRAINE
The first experience of private road maintenance in Ukraine
Alternative liquid spreading agent
HOW CAN NEW TECHNOLOGY BE USED IN WINTER ROAD MAINTENANCE
Optimization of costs for winter maintenance of road assets
Winter Service on Roads and other Public Places
Winter Service Standards in Austria
Projects and Reforms State Road Agency of Ukraine
NEW GENERATION CAR SAFETY FOREST STRIPS
Extreme winter events in Madrid in January 2021
WINTER ROAD MAINTENANCE IN THE EASTERN REGION OF UKRAINE
WINTER CHALLENGES FOR THE KYIV REGION – AN ALGORITHM OF ACTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
Features of winter maintenance of roads in climatic conditions of Ukraine
Winter Service on Roads and other Public Places
German Winter Service Standards
Snowdrift Control
Winter Service Standards in Austria
ISSUES WITH ROAD MAINTENANCE in the South of Ukraine

Speakers and topics for PIARC International Seminar in Ukraine

  December 13th from 14.00 until 17.00

14:00 – 14:40
OPENING CEREMONY

WELCOME SPEECH

Moderator  – Ihor Samokhodsky

Oleksandr Kubrakov
Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
Andrij Ivko
Deputy The State Road Agency of Ukraine
Patrick Malléjacq
PIARC Secretary General
Peter Nutz
Chair of PIARC Winter Service Technical Committee

14:40 – 15:45
Session 1 – NEW TECHNOLOGY IN WINTER SERVICE

Moderator – Peter Nutz

Josef Neuhold
Austrian Standards
Anna Arvidsson
How can new technology be used in winter road maintenance
Yevhen Kubarskyi
Use of new salt technologies in winter road maintenance
Questions — Answers

15:45 – 15:55
COFFEE BREAK

15:55 – 17:00
Session 2 – DIGITALIZATION OF ROADS AND WINTER MAINTENANCE PROCESSES

Moderator – Peter Nutz

Alexandra Azarhina
Best practices and quality management for the winter maintenance in Ukraine
Roman Komendant
The path of digitalization of Ukrainian roads
PIARC Speaker
Questions — Answers

  December 14th – from 14.00 until 17.20

14:00 – 15:20
Session 3 – DE-ICER AND PLOUGHING TECHNOLOGY

Moderator – Marko Bachmaha

Peter Nutz
Liquid alternative to sodium chloride and potassium
Julius Janeba
Spreaders
Aleksandr Rashchupkyn
Practice of winter maintenance and operation of asphalt roads in Ukraine
Vladyslav Demydenko
Best practices in winter maintenance: advance preparation, QA and innovations
Questions — Answers

15:20 – 15:25
COFFEE BREAK

15:25 – 17:10
Session 4 –IMPLEMENTATION OF OPRC CONTRACTS IN UKRAINE

Moderator – Marko Bachmaha

Anna Harchenko
Implementation of OPRC contracts in Ukraine
Stas Gvozdikov
Optimization of costs for winter maintenance of road assets
Oleg Bereza
Experience of pilot project in Lviv region
Tolga Таrimer
Regulatory and technical advantages and disadvantages
Oleh Zaviiskyi
Compliance monitoring
PIARC speaker
Questions — Answers

  December 15th from 14.00 until 17.20

14:00 – 15:20
Session 5 – WINTER SERVICE UNDER EXTREME WINTER EVENTS (Part 1)

Moderator – Artem Bezuhlyi

Masaru Matsuzawa
Snowdrift control
Oleg Fedorenko
Features of winter maintenance of roads in climatic conditions of Ukraine
Dr. Horst Hanke
German winter service standards
Ruslan Nichik
Kyiv region winter events - big challenges and crucial importance
Questions — Answers

15:20 – 15:25
COFFEE BREAK

15:25 – 16:55
Session 6 – WINTER SERVICE UNDER EXTREME WINTER EVENTS (Part 2)

Moderator – Artem Bezuhlyi

Dmytro Rybalka
Problem issues in the southern region of Ukraine
José Carlos Valdecantos Alvarez
Extreme winter events in Spain in Winter 2020/2021
Andrii Aleksieiev
Region local peculiarities in winter service
Oleksii Basan
Features of winter maintenance of the Poltava region
Questions — Answers

16:55 – 17:00
CLOSING REMARKS AND CONCLUSIONS FROM ORGANIZATORS

Peter Nutz
Chair of PIARC Technical Committee on Winter Service
Ihor Samokhodsky
Ukrainian Infrastructure Association UNITE Executive Director

seminar organizers

SEMINAR partners