Road traffic management strategy
The road traffic management strategy determines the objectives, roles, responsibilities, operational principles and service portfolio of the Finnish Transport Agency and the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment. This strategy takes into account the organisational change in the transport administration implemented at the beginning of 2010, the national strategy for intelligent transport, and the current challenges in terms of transport system development. Based on primary customer needs and transport problems, the strategy outlines the main anticipated impacts of traffic management services and functions in different parts of the road network. This is followed up by the identification of the most cost effective traffic management functions and services as well as the parts of the network in which these should be applied in order to achieve the desirable impacts. Active network operation will ensure the predictability and reliability of travel and transport in all conditions, through the prevention of incidents and the minimisation of their impacts. In this respect, the most important tools are traffic control, traffic information and incident management. Ensuring safe mobility will reduce the number of road fatalities and injuries, enhance the overall level of safety and security, and improve compliance with traffic rules and regulations. Primary tools for such purposes include safety related information services, traffic control, enforcement and in-vehicle driver support systems. Promoting public transport, pedestrian and bicycle traffic will improve the attractiveness of these modes, restrain car traffic growth, combat climate change and improve the mobility of e.g. children and the elderly. In this respect, signal priorities for public transport, multimodal travel planning services, high-quality public transport information and, in the future, road use charges are important tools. High-quality real-time data on transport system status forms the essential basis for all traffic management services. Such data contain the current and short-term (15 min - 2 h) predicted status of the transport system. In the operating methods, cooperation between the different parties is emphasized as well as ensuring organisational and operational prerequisites for services and functions needed for the consistent good performance of the transport system. This report may be found at http://alk.tiehallinto.fi/julkaisut/pdf3/lto_2010-03_road_traffic_web.pdf
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Corporate Authors:
Finnish Transport Agency
P.O. Box 33
Helsinki, Finland FI-00521 - Publication Date: 2010
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 16p
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Serial:
- STRATEGIES OF THE FINNISH TRANSPORT AGENCY
- Issue Number: 3/2010
- Publisher: Finnish Transport Agency
- ISSN: 1798-8268
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Highway traffic; Incident management; Strategic planning; Traffic control
- Geographic Terms: Finland
- ITRD Terms: 8035: Finland; 1633: Incident management; 773: Road traffic; 654: Traffic control
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01334360
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Finnish Transport Agency
- ISBN: 978-952-255-549-6
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Mar 28 2011 2:35PM