摘要: |
Since the 1970s, the Finnish road weather information system has been gradually developed into an aid to winter maintenance. Recently, winter maintenance of the road network, and especially commissioning of maintenance, has undergone major changes. 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 road weather system. It became necessary to make the road weather system 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. |