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 Episode 006 - The 12th International Winter Road Congress with Wilf Nixon [25:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Not only was Torino, Italy the site of the Winter Olympics, it also hosted the 12th International Winter Road Congress and the 13th Standing International Road Weather Commission or SIRWEC conference from March 25th to 30th.

Wilf Nixon of the University of Iowa attended both and provides us his insight to these conferences. You can listen to my interview with Wilf by clicking the “Podcast” icon or “Launch Player” button.

Wilf shared some of his pictures and short videos of equipment at the Congress. You will find the pictures in the Photo Gallery. Links to the videos are below. You will need QuickTime to view the videos. QuickTime is a free download at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

Video 1 (7.3 MB)
Video 2 (6.2 MB)
Video 3 (10.5 MB)

Thanks to Wilf for sharing his trip and pictures with us.

The Winter Road Congress program can be found at http://www.aipcr2006.it/

The Winter Road Congress is organized by PIARC (the World Road Association). More information on PIARC can be found at http://www.piarc.org

The SIRWEC web site is at http://www.sirwec.org and the 13th and other conference proceedings are at http://www.sirwec.org/en/index.php?page=conference_history. (Note, the 13th conference proceedings is a 15.5 MB file).

The next SIRWEC conference will be held in 2008 at Prague in the Czech Republic.

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