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In Finland, passenger cars and vans must have studded or studless winter tires from the beginning of December to the end of February. There are still no reguirements for the grip capabilities of tires in winter conditions. In winter tyre tests, it has been demonstrated, that the grip of Middle…

In Finland, the international ICAO (Internetional Civill Aviation Organization) standard is used for raporting runway weather conditions.The rapport includes e.g. runway weather conditions and snow/slush layer thickness. There has been no automatic system for measuring layer thickness and numbers are only based on sensory estimations and spot checks with measuring…

The aim of the study was to compare the safety effects of studded and unstudded winter tires based on fatal road accident data collected by road accident investigation teams. The data included 958 road accidents involving a passenger car or van that occurred in Finland from November to March between…

Finnish Transport Agency is just completing a large updating process of public roads maintenance documents. The work covers all the central documents: winter maintenance quality requirements, maintenance product cards and the template for contract area specifications. The aim of the work has been to update, clarify and specify the existing…

Innomikko Ltd has opened a small webshop in https://innomikko.com/. The small shop has only items manyfactured by the company – and they have nothing to do with traffic research. Unfortunately, shop is only in Finnish.  

Background The Finnish Transport Agency and the regional centres for transport respond the winter maintenance of public roads in Finland. They buy the winter maintenance from private entrepreneurs. In order to maintain and develop the service level of winter traffic, the service level must be observed. The Tranport Agency has…