Climate change brings tangible challenges for winter road maintenance

Mild winters and fluctuating temperatures are no longer abnormal in the North. Among other problems this generates, the changing weather conditions put significant pressure also for rightly timed winter road maintenance. In essence, the right maintenance actions need to be performed at a right time, in a right place while the road weather, and the road surface conditions, can rapidly change.

I am participating in PIARC 2018, the 15th International Winter Road Congress, this week in Gdansk. That's why I wanted to share something important with you about winter maintenance from the perspective of a global road weather provider.

Foreca, a Finnish weather company specialised in road weather, has opened a new office in Germany to support its growing Central European customer base. Particularly important for Foreca is the local presence in the very heart of the automotive industry.

Foreca is participating in TU Automotive Europe 2017, the largest Connected Car conference and trade fair in Munich, November 6-7.

Foreca Works with Harris to Provide High-Quality Road Weather Forecasts Enabled by Helios® Traffic Camera Analysis Technology.

Hi, it is great to see you here. I am proud to welcome you as a visitor to the new Foreca website as well as to the brand new Foreca Weather Business Blog.

V-Traffic chooses FORECA to provide highly reliable information on driving conditions for the drivers.

Wake Dynamite and Foreca have agreed upon the utilisation of the weather data produced by Foreca as part of the Wake Dynamite service.

Foreca Ltd - the leading digital weather service provider for automotive industry – is fostering its foothold in the Indian market in cooperation with OBIGO Inc, a leading Web Service company based in Korea.

Foreca Ltd and Meteorological Service of New Zealand (MetService) start to provide a state-of-the-art road weather service in New Zealand.

Manna Irrigation Ltd, a leading provider of irrigation intelligence software solutions, signed a strategic partnership agreement with Foreca, a leading provider of digital weather data for business use worldwide.

Finnish electric buses will soon be acting as development platforms for smart mobility services in the Helsinki region, used for boosting the creation of new user-centric solutions and product development of businesses.

Foreca provides the BMW Group highly accurate digital weather forecast data, which is delivered to the drivers via BMW's ConnectedDrive Infotainment system.

RML Information Services is a pioneering company specialized in providing mobile services for farmers in India. A collaboration of RML and Foreca will bring Foreca's weather forecasts to 1,4 million farmers across India's 18 states.

CNN Turkey, owned by major Turkish media house Doğan TV (DTVH) Holding A.S, will use Foreca’s weather forecasts for its TV shows and on its website.

Foreca’s provides weather services to TomTom, the global leader in navigation and mapping products.

MittMedia AB, one of Sweden's leading media houses with 10 news pages, 19 morning newspapers, apps, e-news, free newspapers, radio, direct advertising and other printed products, will provide Foreca's weather services in all its newspapers.