(MDSS) ASFiNAG / Austria - Lakeside Conference
(MDSS) ASFiNAG / Austria - Lakeside Conference
(MDSS) ASFiNAG / Austria - Lakeside Conference
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Maintenance Decision Support<br />
System (<strong>MDSS</strong>) ASFINAG / <strong>Austria</strong><br />
- Experience of a Comprehensive<br />
Winter Maintenance Management<br />
System<br />
Werner Seidl (ASFINAG), Thorsten Cypra (Boschung Mecatronic)
Introduction<br />
• Increase of traffic volumes<br />
• Growing mobility<br />
• High level of winter road maintenance<br />
• Complexity of meteorological, traffic and<br />
winter service processes<br />
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Introduction<br />
• Need of comprehensive Winter<br />
Maintenance Management System<br />
Maintenance Decision Support System<br />
(<strong>MDSS</strong>)<br />
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Winter Service in <strong>Austria</strong><br />
• Established in 1982<br />
• Owned by the <strong>Austria</strong>n Federal<br />
Government<br />
• Plans, finances, maintains and tolls the<br />
entire motorway and highway network<br />
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Winter Service in <strong>Austria</strong><br />
• Motorway and highway network:<br />
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Winter Service in <strong>Austria</strong><br />
• ASFINAG Service GmbH (SG) and<br />
ASFINAG Alpenstraßen GmbH (ASG):<br />
– Responsible for ensuring the operation of the<br />
motorways and highways<br />
– Traffic Control Center and Tunnel Control<br />
Centers for Monitoring and Managing<br />
– 1,500 staff on duty 24 hours a day<br />
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Maintenance Decision Support System<br />
Weather office<br />
Road weather<br />
forecast<br />
Traffic Management<br />
Systems<br />
Maintenance vehicles<br />
Weather / Traffic<br />
related data<br />
RWIS<br />
Vehicle data<br />
Measured road<br />
condition and<br />
atmospheric data<br />
BORRMAweb<br />
Fixed Automated<br />
Spray Technology<br />
(FAST)<br />
Measured road<br />
condition and<br />
atmospheric data<br />
Information for educated<br />
decision making<br />
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Maintenance Decision Support System<br />
• Visualisation of RWIS – Data:<br />
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Maintenance Decision Support System<br />
• Priciple of Nowcasting/Forecasting of <strong>MDSS</strong>:<br />
Weather<br />
forecast<br />
3h<br />
Precipitation<br />
Forecast<br />
2h<br />
Weather<br />
forecast<br />
72h<br />
Thermal<br />
mapping<br />
Point<br />
Measurement<br />
Nowcasting<br />
Point<br />
forecast<br />
Forecasting<br />
Road segment<br />
forecast<br />
Parameters<br />
specific to RWIS<br />
location<br />
Decision tree<br />
(parameters)<br />
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Maintenance Decision Support System<br />
• Integration Vehicle and RWIS - Data:<br />
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Experience of <strong>MDSS</strong> in <strong>Austria</strong><br />
• Development of <strong>MDSS</strong> in close<br />
cooperation with winter service<br />
professionals<br />
• Integration of all information / data on one<br />
screen<br />
• Integration of winter service vehicles in<br />
<strong>MDSS</strong> has already started as next step<br />
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Experience of <strong>MDSS</strong> in <strong>Austria</strong><br />
• <strong>MDSS</strong> delivers predictions for Road<br />
Weather Segments with risk levels and<br />
early warnings for next 72 hours<br />
• Evaluation of prediction procedure in 2<br />
maintenance depots basically good<br />
results<br />
• System provides high degree of flexibility<br />
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Experience of <strong>MDSS</strong> in <strong>Austria</strong><br />
• <strong>MDSS</strong> situation map with risk levels:<br />
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Conclusion<br />
• Complex decision-making situations<br />
require a supporting system<br />
• Differentiated knowledge is necessary<br />
• <strong>MDSS</strong> is a comprehensive tool to monitor<br />
weather and road conditions and to<br />
control, manage and log the winter<br />
maintenance measures<br />
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Thank you<br />
for your attention!<br />
Werner Seidl (Dipl.-Ing)<br />
ASFINAG Maut Service<br />
GmbH<br />
Am Europlatz 1<br />
A-1120 Vienna, <strong>Austria</strong><br />
werner.seidl@asfinag.at<br />
Thorsten Cypra (Dr.-Ing),<br />
Boschung Mecatronic AG<br />
Rte d'Englisberg 21<br />
CH-1763 Granges-Paccot,<br />
Switzerland<br />
thorsten.cypra@boschung.com
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