Jukka Lehtinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment – Cenral Finland
Chairman (Wednesday 14.2.2024)
Jukka Lehtinen works as the Director of Central Finland’s ELY -Center and the director of the Transport and Infrastructure responsibility area. He is responsible for the effectiveness of the ELY center’s operations and the achievement of the center’s performance goals.
The ELY centers promote regional development by managing the executive and development tasks of the state administration in the regions.
ELY Centres have three areas of responsibility: Business and industry, labour force, competence and cultural activities; Transport and infrastructure; Environment and natural resources. ELY centers Transport and Infrastrtucture department focus on road care, maintenance and smaller road projects, as well as traffic flow and safety.
Anne Hämäläinen, Tampere University
Chairman (Wednesday 14.2.2024)
She has worked for the last 12 years at Tampere University as a lecturer in earth and foundation structures. Prior to this, her working career was accumulated at Sito and Destia. Anne is inspired by motivated students, whose development is a great joy to follow. At the moment, Anne’s thoughts are guided not only by teaching, but also by her own studies for her dissertation.
Otto Kärki, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency
Chairman (Wednesday 14.2.2024)
M.Sc.,Otto Kärki is leading road maintenace specialist in the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency. He has also previously worked for seven years as a head of maintenance unit and planning unit at a Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment and he has also lead a road maintenance steering and development unit in the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency.
Kärki has 25 years’ experience of state organisations. Kärki has previously worked as a Research Scientist at Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and University of Technology (TUT) and in his home town Vaasa
Timo Paavilainen, YIT
Chairman (Wednesday 14.2.2024)
Timo Paavilainen is the technical director of YIT’s maintenance unit. He has worked at YIT since 2001 in road and street maintenance tasks. Previously, he was a maintenance engineer at the Building Agency of the City of Helsinki from 1990.
Timo Paavilainen has been awarded the Hoken Mug later Maintenance Award recognition at Winter Road Congress 2010 for the long-term development of winter maintenance.
Fanny Malin, VTT
Traffic safety development in winter time during years 2015–2022.
JPh.D., Fanny Malin works as the leader of the research team at VTT and has been working since 2015 mainly on road traffic safety research. In 2023, Malin received his doctorate in technology from Aalto University. The topic of his dissertation was “How do systems for conditional automatic driving of passenger cars respond to Finland’s current traffic safety challenges?”. Malin has worked in domestic and EU projects related to impact assessment (traffic safety, user acceptance, mobility, etc.). The evaluations have focused on e.g. for the safety of urban areas and pedestrians, automatic driving, ITS/C-ITS systems and road improvement measures.
Saku Käsnänen, Ramboll
Freight transport needs for winter maintenance on low-traffic roads
Saku Käsnänen has worked with Smart Mobility in Ramboll as a consultant and project manager for 5 years. Käsnänen works with smart mobility related studies, both national and international, lately project themes have included e.g. heavy traffic and electric mobility.
Tomi Herronen, Roadscanners
The effect of winter treatment on the lifetime costs of pavements
Tomi Herronen (FM, geophysics) consulting branch manager at Roadscanners Oy. His specialty is research methods that do not break infrastructure structures, such as ground surveying, laser scanning, bearing capacity measurements, etc. He has more than 20 years of experience in the infrastructure industry from professional projects in Finland and around the world. Road diagnostics combining different research methods have been carried out in several projects – why roads are damaged the way they are and how to repair them in the most cost-effective way.
Johanna Liljeroos-Cork, University of Tampere
Urban Space at the Heart of Value Creation: Case Snow Management
Johanna Liljeroos-Cork is a university teacher and doctoral researcher in the field of administrative sciences at the Faculty of Management and Business at Tampere University. In her doctoral research, Johanna approaches the infrastructure sector from the perspective of a public service system built to meet society’s needs, with a focus on comprehending systemic and complex entities. She particularly examines culture in the context of value creation and value destruction in her research.
Veli-Matti Härkönen, Oulun Infra -liikelaitos
Case Oulu City – Development of the maintenance management of streets and public areas
Veli-Matti Härkönen works as a work manager in the Oulu Infra business in maintenance services. The area of responsibility is tendering and supervision of external regional contracts, as well as skill structures and the city’s small marinas.
Keijo Pulkkinen, Autori Oy
Case Oulu City – Development of the maintenance management of streets and public areas
Winter maintenance digitalisation possibilities in bike paths
Keijo Pulkkinen works as the country manager of the software company Autori and has also previously worked as a consultant in the traffic planning field and as a maintenance and investment expert and customer at the Road Administration. He has gained experience and insight into the maintenance of roads and streets, from planning to implementation, as well as the development of operational models and the utilization of technologies
Teemu Liimatainen, City of Jyväskylä
Winter Mobility Management In Jyväskylä
Teemu Liimatainen works as Development Manager in the Streets and Parks service area of the city of Jyväskylä. Areas of responsibility include infrastructure development projects, procurement coordination and financial matters. My career has consisted of various tasks in the life cycle of infrastructure.
Tuula Smolander, City of Jyväskylä
Winter Mobility Management In Jyväskylä
Chairman (Thu 15.2.2024)
Director of Street Maintenace in the City of Jyväskylä
Rauno Kuusela, Destia
Winter cycling – a dozen obstacles and 12 solutions
Kuusela has been awarded with prestigious Maintenace Award in 2020 Winter Road Congress.
Rauno Kuusela has a long career at Destia, its predecessor at Tieliikelaitok and as a consultant. Rauno Kuusela has also shared his expertise with students by running winter maintenance-related courses at Tampere University of Applied Sciences and Tampere University of Technology.
Under the leadership of Rauno Kuusela, the development of winter care methods, materials, machines and equipment has been carried forward.
Rauno Kuusela is a highly respected and open-minded seeker of information, a quick adopter and sharer of it on domestic, international and especially Nordic forums.
Rauno Kuusela has a long career at Destia, Tieliikelaitos and as a consultant. Rauno Kuusela has also shared his expertise with students by running winter maintenance-related courses at Tampere University of Applied Sciences and Tampere University of Technology.
Under the leadership of Rauno Kuusela, the development of winter maintenance methods, materials, machines and equipment has been carried forward.
Rauno Kuusela is a highly respected and open-minded seeker of information, a quick adopter and sharer of it on domestic, international and especially Nordic forums.
Sami Aherva, Helsingin kaupunki
Machine vision and infrastructures static basic inventory
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Erik Sucksdorff , Vaisala Oy
Easy insights: Unlocking winter road maintenance in challengin areas
Erik Sucksdorff – Business Development, Road Weather
Erik has a long track record in business strategy and new business development focusing on environmental technologies. He has driven Vaisala’s acquisitions in computer vision and road weather and is now engaged with the transportation ecosystem to help keep our road and rail infrastructure safe, efficient and sustainable.
Elina Heed, Vaisala Oy
Easy insights: Unlocking winter road maintenance in challengin areas
Elina Heed – Sales Manager, Road Weather
Elina has a Master of Science in Meteorology and began her career as an on-duty road weather meteorologist. She has over 20 years of experience in road weather, helping customers get a more efficient road network and optimize the winter maintenance actions. She has deep expertise in digital decision support systems for winter maintenance.
Ari Tuononen, Roadcloud Oy
Seamless workflow for road weather measurement
As CEO and co-founder of RoadCloud Oy, Ari brings over 15 years of expertise in automotive deep tech from academia and industry, highlighted by approximately 100 scientific publications and speeches, including PhD Thesis on tire friction. He has guided the work of 4 PhD and 16 M.Sc/B.Sc. theses.
His drive to accelerate the adoption of innovative technological solutions led to the establishment of RoadCloud. Roadcloud is aiming to enhance autonomous, efficient, and safe road transportation.
Previously, as the Vehicle Dynamics group leader and Academy Research Fellow at Aalto University, he led a team researching tyre friction, rolling resistance, and advanced tyre sensors using diverse experimental and computational methodologies. He has also worked for Goodyear Innovation Center in Luxembourg.
Simo Takalammi, Finnish Road Association
Chairman ( Wed 14.2.2024 at Dinner 17.00)
Liisa-Maija Thompson, Finnish Road Association
Chairman ( Wed 14.2.2024 at Dinner 17.00)
Sauli Hievanen, Miltton Networks
Finnish Transport Policy
Sauli Hievanen is a partner and leading advisor at Miltton Networks. Hievanen helps its customers in social influence work. Tieyhdistys has awarded Hievanen a badge of merit for significant and long-term merits in the road transport industry. Sauli Hievanen is a former assistant to the Minister of Transport and SAK’s transport influencer.
Hievanen’s minister’s assistant time has been praised in Hesari Newspaper and in a book written by political journalists Pekka Ervasti and Timo Haapala
Pauli Kolisoja, Tampere University
Chairman ( Thu 15.2.2024 )
Samuli Heiska, GSGroup Finland Oy
Digitalization in winter road maintenance, automated tools for fleet management
Samuli Heiska – Sales Manager GSGroup Finland Oy
At GSGroup Finland Oy, Samuli is responsible for acquiring new customers and managing our current customer relationships, as well as developing sales processes. In his work, Samuli is motivated by finding the right solution for our customers, which can be used to make significant cost savings. At GSGroup, we help in matters related to fleet management and positioning devices with an expert and caring approach. If you are interested in these topics, contact Samuli and he will be happy to tell you more.
Perttu Niskanen, University of Oulu
HCT Winter Premium frost load utilization project, Perttu Niskanen, University of Oulu
Perttu Niskanen (Diploma Engineer, vehicle and mechanical engineering) is a university teacher of vehicle and mechanical engineering at the University of Oulu. He has worked extensively in projects related to vehicle technology and in teaching positions. Many projects have investigated the suitability of HCT vehicle combinations for Finnish road traffic. The suitability of HCT vehicles has been studied both in terms of the suitability of the fleet (dimensions, masses, technical implementation of the fleet) and the durability of the road infrastructure.
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Veikko Pekkala, University of Oulu
HCT Winter Premium frost load utilization project, Perttu Niskanen, University of Oulu
Veikko Pekkala (FM, Information Technology, DI, Water and Environmental Engineering) works as a researcher and teacher in the Road and Transport Engineering (Community Engineering) research group at the University of Oulu. He has coordinated road alignment measurements in several research projects, in which the suitability of HCT vehicle combinations for Finnish road traffic has been studied in particular.
Jani Kariniemi, Fintraffic
Road traffic digital services
Jani started working on the development of Tie’s digital services in the fall of 2023. Before that, he developed digital services in the field of health and well-being for 15 years.
In recent years, the unofficial title has been Digitalkkari = Digi caretaker, which describes Jani’s new task well. His tasks at Digitie include new services and ecosystem acceleration.
Olli Rossi, Fintraffic
Road traffic digital services
Olli has years of experience in transport services and development. Currently Olli’s area of responsibility is Fintraffic Tie Oy’s traffic light and automatic monitoring services as well as intelligent road traffic services.
Digitie’s goal is to offer various digital mobility and traffic management services to road users, companies and public administration.
Olli is one of Digitie’s cornerstones, and with cooperation we will meet the expectations of the digitalization of road traffic.
Santeri Joki, Kemion Oy
Effective winter maintenance with ecological de-icers
Santeri Joki has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and works as a sales engineer for Kemion Oy, which develops ecological anti-slip agents.
Matti Kämäräinen, Ilmatieteenlaitos
Probability forecasts of wintertime road maintenance operations based on machine learning
Matti Kämäräinen is a researcher and application developer at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. His specialty is weather forecasting and machine learning.
Pekka Petäjäniemi, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency
Cooperation training in investment, paving and maintenance contracts
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Antti Nikkanen, Trombia Technologies
Slow working machines and their autonomous use on the streets in Finland, Antti Nikkanen, Trombia Technologies
Antti Nikkanen is the CEO of a Kuopio-based Trombia Technologies Oy. Trombia develops Nordic snow plowing and street cleaning technologies, with the main product groups being snow plows for property maintenance, sweeper attachments and Trombia cleaning devices that remove street dust and industrial dust together with Nordic gritting sand.
Trombia Technologies has also developed high power, autonomous and fully electric sweeping machines for series production in Finland. The product development has also included the world’s only ISO-standardized technical safety validation for an autonomous slow-moving street maintenance machine.
Jaakko Klang, Center for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment
Optimisation of Winter Maintenance on pedestrian and cycling paths – case study from regional road 110
Jaakko Klang is a road safety engineer at the Center for Economic Development, Transport, and the Environment.
He has long and extensive experience in road safety, accident investigation, coor-dination and support of municipal road safety work, civil engineering, construction, structural design, road design, development of the transport system.
Jarkko Pirinen, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency
Winter maintenance digitalisation possibilities in bike paths
Chairman (Thu 15.2.2024)
Jarkko Pirinen is a road maintenance expert at the Finnish Railways Agency. Previously worked as a consultant for 5 years and before that at the Road Administration/Road Administration and the Ely center since 1999 in various positions, most of the time as a maintenance manager. During his career, he has gained extensive experience in matters related to treatment in different countries. Various development projects and technologies have always been close to his heart.
Samuli Huusko, City of Vaasa
Discussion on cycling lanes and their maintenance in cities
Huusko works as a project engineer for walking and cycling in the city of Vaasa. In his work, he promotes cycling and walking in Vaasa, in practice he is responsible for planning and building projects. He leads projects promoting cycling.
Huusko competes in endurance sports and therefore it is natural for him to move with muscle strength. In his active lifestyle bike is the main form of transportation for everyday trips.
Harri Vaarala, City of Oulu
Discussion on cycling lanes and their maintenance in cities
Harri Vaarala works as a traffic engineer in the city of Oulu, responsible for everything in Oulu for the promotion of bicycle traffic, the infrastructure planning and implementation of bicycle lanes, the development of winter maintenance of bicycle lanes, and the branding and marketing of cycling.
Harri also works part-time as a doctoral researcher on the FinnCycle research project at Tampere University’s Transportation Research Center in Verne.
Martti Tulenheimo, Finnish Cyclists´ Federation
Discussion on cycling lanes and their maintenance in cities
Martti Tulenheimo is a specialist at the Finnish Cyclists’ Federation. He is interestedespecially in designing a built environment for cycling. Previously, he has been a program director in Brussels for the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF), working internationally with top experts in the European cycling industry.
