Managing Winter Road Conditions Monitoring the current conditions on roadways nearby and remote motorways is critical to performing winter maintenance operations. Ministries of transportation, departments of transportation, cities, counties, and townships all have a need to monitor road weather conditions. A new season for winter road maintenance Reliable and accurate information is key, and the Vaisala road weather products provide solutions that meet your needs to keep the roads safe, reduce operational costs, and make your job easier. Vaisala offers decision support systems and services, as well as fixed and mobile road weather stations and sensors that are customized to monitor winter road conditions. Know Exactly What is Going on With Your Roads Road weather stations or Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) monitor winter conditions such as: Ice or snow formation Frost on bridges Black ice or refreezing of moisture Depth of water or snow Friction or grip Chemical concentration Freeze point of solution on the surface New road to efficiency: How Edinburgh saved 22% in costs Like many city governments, Edinburgh used a “one forecast fits all” approach to de-icing during winter conditions. If freezing was expected, city teams laboriously salted all 650km of the city’s priority road network. Read more on how Edinburgh moved past “one forecast fits all” and saved 22% in costs. Read more Webinar: A new season for winter road maintenance From small towns to large DOTs, winter road maintenance is evolving — but what does that evolution mean to operators and managers? How can you best apply new technologies and practices to improve efficiency while also ensuring your community is safe? Register now to hear the Mark DeVries speaking in the webinar: “A new season for winter road maintenance: Trends and technologies that matter most today” Register now Related stories Customer case Optimizing snow and ice removal in Japan The Hokuriku region of Japan is known for its heavy snowfall, and clearing snow and ice from the expressways is one of the most important jobs... Read more Customer case Safer roads in any weather How the Streets Department of the City of Fort Collins uses mobile sensors and data visualization to proactively and efficiently maintain the... Read more Press Release | May 27, 2020 Vaisala Digital launches Vaisala Wx Horizon, first-of-its-kind digital offering to manage the impact of winter weather in ground transportation Vaisala Press release May 27, 2020 Vaisala Digital launches Vaisala Wx... Read more Blog | Sep 25, 2019 How road condition analysis with computer vision is changing cities and transportation departments Road infrastructure is among the most important public assets we have. Essentially, modern society doesn’t work without them. And yet, many... Read more Blog | Feb 25, 2019 Accuracy Matters for Winter Precipitation No doubt my meteorologist friends have often heard the “joke” that it must be nice to have a job where you can be wrong half the time and still... Read more Blog | Feb 12, 2019 Problem solved: computer vision is generating data for road pavement management All around the globe, roads rank among the most important assets for nations, facilitating economies and allowing governments to manage internal... Read more Blog | Dec 19, 2018 Do I Currently Have Snow or Ice on My Road Network? Locating Road Weather Information Stations (RWIS) across a customer’s road network answers part of the question, but what about the roads where... Read more Blog | Sep 10, 2018 Keeping an eye on the road How advancements in computer vision and wireless communication are changing the way we manage transportation infrastructure The speed at which... Read more Blog | Sep 3, 2018 Automated anonymization of visuals with computer vision Vaisala’s anonymization service is capable of detecting and anonymizing vehicles and pedestrians in images and video material. This technology... Read more Blog | Jul 24, 2018 Road Weather Data is a Precious Thing “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves,” said Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. Ensuring... Read more Blog | Jul 4, 2018 Video Analysis with Computer Vision – Ultimate Format for Traffic Sign Inventories Automation is interesting in almost every repetitive or simple task; traffic sign mapping and inventories are an excellent use case to be... Read more Blog | Jun 6, 2018 When it's time to get ready for winter I recently attended the Cold Comfort winter maintenance exhibition and conference 2018 events in Dunblane (Scotland) and Coventry (England)... Read more Blog | Feb 1, 2017 Going Local Every highway, motorway, street, county and local road, and carriage way is impacted by the weather. Which begs the question, why isn’t the... Read more Blog | Jan 29, 2015 Vaisala Launches its RoadDSS® Road Condition App for the Apple iPad Vaisala, a global leader in innovative weather solutions for road maintenance and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has released the... Read more Related products Road Weather Information System (RWIS) Road weather information - knowing exactly what is going on with the roadway, now and in the future - is the key to successful decision making... Read more Severe Weather API Adverse and severe weather conditions The Severe Weather API provides information on adverse and severe weather conditions forecast for any location... Read more Weather History Historical Weather Observations If you want to know what the weather was in a certain location at a certain date in the past, the Weather... Read more Weather Notification API Set and receive push-notifications based on weather forecasts The Weather Notifications API enables you to set weather-driven push notifications... Read more Winter Maintenance Decision Support System Winter Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) helps road authorities, contractors and municipalities make roads safer with proactive working... Read more Interested in Ground Transportation in general? Road weather technology has as many uses as there are weather conditions, from having accurate data about the road surface, like snow and ice to wind, sand storms or flooding. Vaisala road weather solutions monitor roadways for specific parameters you need to know, to take action or warn travelers. All decisions, whether human or automated, are based on accurate and reliable measurement data, so ensuring your road weather data is key. Read more
Managing Winter Road Conditions Monitoring the current conditions on roadways nearby and remote motorways is critical to performing winter maintenance operations. Ministries of transportation, departments of transportation, cities, counties, and townships all have a need to monitor road weather conditions. A new season for winter road maintenance
Reliable and accurate information is key, and the Vaisala road weather products provide solutions that meet your needs to keep the roads safe, reduce operational costs, and make your job easier. Vaisala offers decision support systems and services, as well as fixed and mobile road weather stations and sensors that are customized to monitor winter road conditions.
Know Exactly What is Going on With Your Roads Road weather stations or Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) monitor winter conditions such as: Ice or snow formation Frost on bridges Black ice or refreezing of moisture Depth of water or snow Friction or grip Chemical concentration Freeze point of solution on the surface
New road to efficiency: How Edinburgh saved 22% in costs Like many city governments, Edinburgh used a “one forecast fits all” approach to de-icing during winter conditions. If freezing was expected, city teams laboriously salted all 650km of the city’s priority road network. Read more on how Edinburgh moved past “one forecast fits all” and saved 22% in costs. Read more
Webinar: A new season for winter road maintenance From small towns to large DOTs, winter road maintenance is evolving — but what does that evolution mean to operators and managers? How can you best apply new technologies and practices to improve efficiency while also ensuring your community is safe? Register now to hear the Mark DeVries speaking in the webinar: “A new season for winter road maintenance: Trends and technologies that matter most today” Register now
Related stories Customer case Optimizing snow and ice removal in Japan The Hokuriku region of Japan is known for its heavy snowfall, and clearing snow and ice from the expressways is one of the most important jobs... Read more Customer case Safer roads in any weather How the Streets Department of the City of Fort Collins uses mobile sensors and data visualization to proactively and efficiently maintain the... Read more Press Release | May 27, 2020 Vaisala Digital launches Vaisala Wx Horizon, first-of-its-kind digital offering to manage the impact of winter weather in ground transportation Vaisala Press release May 27, 2020 Vaisala Digital launches Vaisala Wx... Read more Blog | Sep 25, 2019 How road condition analysis with computer vision is changing cities and transportation departments Road infrastructure is among the most important public assets we have. Essentially, modern society doesn’t work without them. And yet, many... Read more Blog | Feb 25, 2019 Accuracy Matters for Winter Precipitation No doubt my meteorologist friends have often heard the “joke” that it must be nice to have a job where you can be wrong half the time and still... Read more Blog | Feb 12, 2019 Problem solved: computer vision is generating data for road pavement management All around the globe, roads rank among the most important assets for nations, facilitating economies and allowing governments to manage internal... Read more Blog | Dec 19, 2018 Do I Currently Have Snow or Ice on My Road Network? Locating Road Weather Information Stations (RWIS) across a customer’s road network answers part of the question, but what about the roads where... Read more Blog | Sep 10, 2018 Keeping an eye on the road How advancements in computer vision and wireless communication are changing the way we manage transportation infrastructure The speed at which... Read more Blog | Sep 3, 2018 Automated anonymization of visuals with computer vision Vaisala’s anonymization service is capable of detecting and anonymizing vehicles and pedestrians in images and video material. This technology... Read more Blog | Jul 24, 2018 Road Weather Data is a Precious Thing “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves,” said Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. Ensuring... Read more Blog | Jul 4, 2018 Video Analysis with Computer Vision – Ultimate Format for Traffic Sign Inventories Automation is interesting in almost every repetitive or simple task; traffic sign mapping and inventories are an excellent use case to be... Read more Blog | Jun 6, 2018 When it's time to get ready for winter I recently attended the Cold Comfort winter maintenance exhibition and conference 2018 events in Dunblane (Scotland) and Coventry (England)... Read more Blog | Feb 1, 2017 Going Local Every highway, motorway, street, county and local road, and carriage way is impacted by the weather. Which begs the question, why isn’t the... Read more Blog | Jan 29, 2015 Vaisala Launches its RoadDSS® Road Condition App for the Apple iPad Vaisala, a global leader in innovative weather solutions for road maintenance and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has released the... Read more
Customer case Optimizing snow and ice removal in Japan The Hokuriku region of Japan is known for its heavy snowfall, and clearing snow and ice from the expressways is one of the most important jobs... Read more
Customer case Safer roads in any weather How the Streets Department of the City of Fort Collins uses mobile sensors and data visualization to proactively and efficiently maintain the... Read more
Press Release | May 27, 2020 Vaisala Digital launches Vaisala Wx Horizon, first-of-its-kind digital offering to manage the impact of winter weather in ground transportation Vaisala Press release May 27, 2020 Vaisala Digital launches Vaisala Wx... Read more
Blog | Sep 25, 2019 How road condition analysis with computer vision is changing cities and transportation departments Road infrastructure is among the most important public assets we have. Essentially, modern society doesn’t work without them. And yet, many... Read more
Blog | Feb 25, 2019 Accuracy Matters for Winter Precipitation No doubt my meteorologist friends have often heard the “joke” that it must be nice to have a job where you can be wrong half the time and still... Read more
Blog | Feb 12, 2019 Problem solved: computer vision is generating data for road pavement management All around the globe, roads rank among the most important assets for nations, facilitating economies and allowing governments to manage internal... Read more
Blog | Dec 19, 2018 Do I Currently Have Snow or Ice on My Road Network? Locating Road Weather Information Stations (RWIS) across a customer’s road network answers part of the question, but what about the roads where... Read more
Blog | Sep 10, 2018 Keeping an eye on the road How advancements in computer vision and wireless communication are changing the way we manage transportation infrastructure The speed at which... Read more
Blog | Sep 3, 2018 Automated anonymization of visuals with computer vision Vaisala’s anonymization service is capable of detecting and anonymizing vehicles and pedestrians in images and video material. This technology... Read more
Blog | Jul 24, 2018 Road Weather Data is a Precious Thing “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves,” said Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. Ensuring... Read more
Blog | Jul 4, 2018 Video Analysis with Computer Vision – Ultimate Format for Traffic Sign Inventories Automation is interesting in almost every repetitive or simple task; traffic sign mapping and inventories are an excellent use case to be... Read more
Blog | Jun 6, 2018 When it's time to get ready for winter I recently attended the Cold Comfort winter maintenance exhibition and conference 2018 events in Dunblane (Scotland) and Coventry (England)... Read more
Blog | Feb 1, 2017 Going Local Every highway, motorway, street, county and local road, and carriage way is impacted by the weather. Which begs the question, why isn’t the... Read more
Blog | Jan 29, 2015 Vaisala Launches its RoadDSS® Road Condition App for the Apple iPad Vaisala, a global leader in innovative weather solutions for road maintenance and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has released the... Read more
Related products Road Weather Information System (RWIS) Road weather information - knowing exactly what is going on with the roadway, now and in the future - is the key to successful decision making... Read more Severe Weather API Adverse and severe weather conditions The Severe Weather API provides information on adverse and severe weather conditions forecast for any location... Read more Weather History Historical Weather Observations If you want to know what the weather was in a certain location at a certain date in the past, the Weather... Read more Weather Notification API Set and receive push-notifications based on weather forecasts The Weather Notifications API enables you to set weather-driven push notifications... Read more Winter Maintenance Decision Support System Winter Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) helps road authorities, contractors and municipalities make roads safer with proactive working... Read more
Road Weather Information System (RWIS) Road weather information - knowing exactly what is going on with the roadway, now and in the future - is the key to successful decision making... Read more
Severe Weather API Adverse and severe weather conditions The Severe Weather API provides information on adverse and severe weather conditions forecast for any location... Read more
Weather History Historical Weather Observations If you want to know what the weather was in a certain location at a certain date in the past, the Weather... Read more
Weather Notification API Set and receive push-notifications based on weather forecasts The Weather Notifications API enables you to set weather-driven push notifications... Read more
Winter Maintenance Decision Support System Winter Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) helps road authorities, contractors and municipalities make roads safer with proactive working... Read more
Interested in Ground Transportation in general? Road weather technology has as many uses as there are weather conditions, from having accurate data about the road surface, like snow and ice to wind, sand storms or flooding. Vaisala road weather solutions monitor roadways for specific parameters you need to know, to take action or warn travelers. All decisions, whether human or automated, are based on accurate and reliable measurement data, so ensuring your road weather data is key. Read more
