Data-driven road maintenance to keep your city moving safely.
How your city can benefit from a road weather information solution
Improved road safety and usability
Localized road weather monitoring allows crews to react to microclimates across the city, prioritizing the worst areas first. By optimizing routing and treatment methods, crews are able to reach their defined road maintenance standards faster. This helps reduce collisions and congestion to keep your city moving safely.
Protect infrastructure and reduce pollution
Snowplows, salt, de-icing spray, and other treatment solutions are harsh on the road surface. RWIS data can help managers select the best equipment and material for each area. Selecting the optimal, most effective treatment method means fewer passes to keep the roads safe, and less material applied to the roadway. By only applying what is necessary, roads will last longer and require fewer repairs. Fuel and chemical efficiencies also reduce the risk of soil and waterway contamination.
Do more with your existing resources
Road maintenance can be costly, but RWIS data allows you to efficiently target the areas that need it most. Agency-specific benefits of RWIS like labour, materials, and equipment cost savings have benefit-cost ratios up to 11:1. Find efficiencies to reduce the amount of salt, sand, and other materials necessary to keep the roads clear. Use data to supplement patrolling observations, assign crews with the right equipment and material, and reduce the cost of oversight with remote confirmation of reported conditions.
Use cases
Public roads and highways
Public roadways are used by citizens, visitors, commercial, and emergency vehicles every day. Canadian road weather is variable and can severely impact safety and mobility. Detailed and timely RWIS data helps road crews better respond to and treat road conditions.
Airports
Airports have complex underlying infrastructure to enable safe and efficient travel for passengers. Arrival and departure road networks, the apron, taxiways, and runways are all subject to variable weather conditions. RWIS helps crews monitor surface conditions and quickly respond with a targeted approach.
Public transit and schools
Public transit agencies and school buses provide important services to citizens. Transit agencies and school boards closely monitor road conditions during weather events to ensure the safety of their staff and the public. Municipalities with RWIS can remotely provide decision makers with real-time data to inform their route detour and cancellation decisions.
Educational and corporate campuses
Large university, college, and corporate campuses have many roads and walkways. Campus maintenance crews can use RWIS to monitor surface conditions, and take timely and targeted steps to maintain safe travel for pedestrians and vehicles.
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