Road Surface Temperature in a Changing Climate

Dear Colleagues,

Road weather is a crucial factor affecting our society in many different ways. Snowstorms, icy roads and other hazardous situations cause transportation problems and risk for road accidents.  For more than 30-years, Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) have used as a tool for understanding when and where to perform maintenance actions. The RWIS-data has in many ways revolutionized the way winter maintenance is performed as well as how road users can be informed about the present and upcoming road conditions. It has also been a very important tool for information & research within the field of road climatology. 

Today we face large challenges – the need for a better understanding of how road weather and especially road surface temperature will change in accordance with the climate change we experience on the globe. For example, areas that previously have had a stable winter climate experience today new scenarios due to much more fluctuating winter weather. This calls for new knowledge of how to, for example, design and locate road weather stations and which types of maintenance machinery required. 

This special issue will focus on modelling of road surface temperature in a changing climate and we welcome studies that both describe observed variations in road weather and the effect from that as well as future road temperature scenarios.

Dr. Torbjörn Gustavsson
Guest Editor

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• road climate
• road weather
• climate change and road weather
• future road weather scenarios