Our road management support service provides road managers and road-maintenance companies working for national and local governments with snow ice and other weather information, to help ensure road safety and efficient snow/ice clearing and plowing.
Winter road management requires high-precision forecasting of parameters such as snowfall, air temperature, frost, and road-surface temperature.To supplement our original observation data and observation data owned by customers, Weathernews operates RASM (Road Agency-Specific Model), a weather forecasting model specialized for local roads that is able to simulate road-environment conditions.RASM has real-time hind-casting functions, and can improve the precision of forecast values with a learning feature.
Winter road managers are responsible for ensuring road safety until the volume of traffic starts to pick up in the morning hours.The Weathernews has staff with specialized knowledge of snow- and ice-related response operations.Using business operation manuals created together with customers, these employees provide detailed reports on any changes in weather conditions, and study the timing of snow plowing and chemical spraying together with the customer in order to assist the decision-making process to ensure optimal snow/ice clearing and plowing.
Working to advance road weather forecasting technology, Weathernews carries out R&D work on forecasting technology for regional weather phenomena that affect road traffic.These phenomena include destructive waves, fog, hail, drifting snow, melting-snow disasters, landslide disasters, slope collapses, etc.
