David Carter

Scotland's winters are becoming less predictable and the network faces growing pressure from flooding, landslips and severe weather. This session moves beyond route-by-route thinking to a hazard-based, risk-led approach - combining smarter winter forecasting with practical network resilience.

• How meteorology-led, route-based forecasting is reducing unnecessary gritter deployments, with real cost and carbon savings from South Lanarkshire and other Scottish councils
• Moving from routes to hazards: how flooding, landslips and severe weather are being managed on the Scottish network through a risk-based lens
• Asset protection strategies, technology and data improving incident response times and network recovery