The value of meteorological information!
The materials from the Standing International Road Weather Commission’s 15th SIRWEC conference that was held in Quebec City, Canada from the 5th to the 7th February 2010 have been published. The papers presented showed the important role of public sector information with respect to the transport networks and the safety of those that use them especially during the winter months.
The papers presented at the Conference included those from the ROADIDEA project as well as from public sector bodies, private sector bodies, research and academic institutions from European Member States that included amongst others:
- Austria
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Slovenia
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- UK
The 2012 SIRWEC conference will be hosted by Finland.
The paper presented at the 15th SIRWEC Conference titled: Value of weather information for road management presented by Pekka Leviäkangas & Anna-Maija Hietajärvi of VTT Transport and Logistics Systems, reviews research that considers the economic value of meteorological information.
“ABSTRACT
Weather information is valuable to road management value chain starting from the planning, construction and operating of roads, and yielding to value-added services to road users. Prior studies in the field show multiple use cases for weather information and tangible value in many respects. The technological changes and trends of new public management will however change the valuation logic. In the future, recognition of the business value will become more relevant. Many applications, such as variable message signs will be replaced by in-vehicle applications. Also the unbundling of the public sector functions will change the way that different actors look at weather information. Some systems, formerly regarded as public, will probably change into business tools of private/commercial operators.”
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