Road Weather

Road Weather

When weather changes, so should your preparation.

Achieve strategic road management through intelligent weather insights.

When weather changes, so should your preparation.

Achieve strategic road management through intelligent weather insights.

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Unsure How Many Staff to Deploy During Heavy Rain or Snow?

When establishing response systems for heavy rain and snow, it's necessary to secure required personnel in advance. However, with rising costs including labor expenses, optimal staffing decisions are essential.

Available solutions

Weathernews' Advanced Staffing Decision Support Service for Heavy Snow/Rain

Support staffing decisions with detailed forecasts.

Key Benefits

Accurate Road Impact Prediction

In addition to precise weather information up to 10 days ahead, road traffic impact prediction allows you to understand weather risks up to 72 hours ahead for each 1km grid. During winter, snow accumulation maps and probability-based staffing recommendations are also available.

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When is the Best Timing for Snow Removal, Salt Spreading, and Patrolling?

Safe road management is achieved through road patrols and winter operations such as snow removal and salt spreading. As road conditions and surface states change according to weather conditions, responses must be adapted accordingly.

Available solutions

Weathernews' Appropriate Work Decision Support Service During Weather Changes

By providing high-frequency updated forecasts and road surface condition predictions based on information from approximately 13,000 observation stations nationwide and our unique supporter network, timely and appropriate work decisions become possible. Advanced prediction technology supports work decisions.

Key Benefits

Immediate Detection of Weather Changes

High-frequency forecast updates enable detection of sudden weather changes. Freezing risk information with day/night granularity and hourly road surface condition predictions up to 72 hours ahead are available. Soratena Pro also monitors your local temperature and humidity in real-time, sending you custom alerts when conditions reach your set thresholds. Plus, it automatically tracks historical data so you can spot trends and review past weather events.

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Driver Information Dissemination

When there's a possibility of road closures, it's important to widely publicize and deliver information to drivers. If severe weather information is posted on car navigation systems and map apps, drivers can also change their future plans.

Available solutions

Weathernews' Severe Weather Information Visualization Service

Weathernews has various information dissemination media, including the Weathernews weather app with approximately 45 million downloads nationwide. By utilizing these media, information can be delivered to many drivers. Furthermore, by linking weather forecast data with various media, more opportunities can be created for drivers to notice severe weather. Information provision using the Weathernews app and weather data integration with other systems are possible.

Key Benefits

Early information dissemination for behavioral change

Links to desired pages can be placed in the banner section of the Weathernews app. Weather forecast data can also be linked via API and posted on various media.

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