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Award winning AI project keeps roads safe through winter

Award winning AI project keeps roads safe through winter A paper on Smart Winter work submitted by Kent County Council and Amey has won an award and received an honourable mention at the XVI World Winter Service and Road Resilience Congress hosted in Calgary. The Congress, which tackles topics such as new technologies and methods […]
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NWSRG Survey Results 2021

NWSRG Survey Results 2021 The National Winter Service Research Group (NWSRG), the leading highways winter research organisation in the UK, has been developing best practice guidance for the highways industry for nearly 20 years.  As we look forward to a new chapter in our development and seek to extend the reach of the group across […]
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Sad news for the winter service community

It is with great sadness that we hear of the sad and untimely death of Andrew Lupton of Econ Engineering. Andrew was generous, not just in his contribution to the winter service industry generally, but to his team, colleagues and associates. He was a founding member of the NSSRG in 2000 and was very supportive […]
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Message from the Chair

We are living in unusual times now but the work of highways departments across the country goes on as we continue to provide essential services and keep networks as safe as we can. The NWSRG has been busy working to complete the current work on updating the national best practice guidance, as well as considering […]
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Important GDPR Information

This is to notify you that the IHE will be working on behalf of the NWSRG to request your subscriptions, rather than the TRL who previously made this request. Payments should now be made to the IHE who will be maintaining a separate account of the NWSRG funds. The NWSRG have instructed the TRL to […]
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Research Update

The NWSRG is engaging in a research project with Highways England, Transport Scotland and East Riding of Yorkshire which is looking at brine treatment of footways, FS30/FS50 prewet comparison, measurement of residual salt and mobile sensor performance. The TRL have also undertaken an initial literature review of treatment times, residual salt, and prepared a survey […]
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