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Title:

Finnish Road Administration's Web Road Weather Project

Abstract:

The Finnish road weather information system has been gradually developed into an aid to winter maintenance. Recently, winter maintenance of the road network, especially in commissioning of maintenance, has undergone major changes in Finland. Winter maintenance is being opened to competition, and the goal is that by the end of 2004 winter maintenance on all the public roads in Finland will be done by contractors selected through a bidding process. The new method of operation put pressure on the Finnish RWIS. It became necessary to make the RWIS and the information it contains available to all the contractors doing winter maintenance as easily and reliably as possible. To satisfy this need, a Web Road Weather project was started in the beginning of 2000, which resulted in a new web-based application for users of road weather information. With this new application it is possible to monitor ten different kinds of weather images, camera images from 240 road weather cameras, and road weather information from 320 road weather stations. The application is currently being used by both the Finnish Road Administration and external contractors.

Source(s):

6th International Symposium on Snow Removal and Ice Control Technology, Transportation Research Circular, No. E-C063

http://trb.org/publications/circulars/ec063.pdf

Date: 2004

Author:

Toivonen, Kantonen

Keywords:


Environmental Sensor Station (ESS)
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
Winter maintenance
Internet/web site
Observing network

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