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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Administrative View of RWIS in Finland

Abstract:

At the beginning of year 2001 the former Finnish National Road Administration was divided into two: the Finnish Road Administration (Finnra, administrative authority), and the Finnish Road Enterprise (contractor). The Finnish Road Weather Information System (RWIS) was started in the 1980s. Since then it has been gradually developed as a winter maintenance tool. As the winter maintenance was opened to competition, it also had an influence on RWIS. The road weather information had to be made available to all winter maintenance contractors as easily and reliably as possible. The new procedure also influenced the acquiring of the RWIS: according to Finnra's strategies all acquisitions have to be made through competitive bidding and contracts. The purpose of this presentation is to describe the complex governing and administration of the Finnish RWIS, which, as a very important system in Finnra, has an influence through the organization.

Source(s):

13th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC); Finnish Road Administration (Finland)

https://sirwec.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Torino-D-27.pdf

Date: 2006

Author:

Toivonen, Lahtinen

Keywords:


Winter maintenance
Institutional issues
Forecast/Prediction
Observing network

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