The Road Management System is a weather-driven decision-support platform designed to help road authorities anticipate and manage weather-related risks. It combines interactive weather maps, professional meteorological forecasts, and real-time hydrological monitoring into a single operational interface. The system provides road-level intelligence, including road surface temperature, rainfall impact, and live flood warnings, enabling proactive and data-driven maintenance decisions. By delivering both short-term operational forecasts and mid-range outlooks, it supports safer roads, reduced disruption, and improved service planning.

Our 24/7 Meteorological Service provides continuous expert support to ensure informed operational decision-making in weather-sensitive environments. Available around the clock via phone, email, and other convenient communication channels, our professional meteorologists deliver tailored forecasts, analytical reports, and real-time consultations. Beyond general meteorology expertise, the team offers specialized knowledge in road weather and winter maintenance scenarios, helping authorities anticipate hazards and respond proactively. By combining human expertise with operational insight, the service supports safer roads, reduced risk, and confident weather-driven planning.

OpenWeather provides Cumberland with a Winter Road Maintenance Dashboard and expert meteorological consultancy, enabling a shift from broad assumptions to targeted, route-level decisions. Duty teams can assess network conditions and drill into specific links, prioritising higher-risk areas, known cold spots and exposed sections.Targeted decision-making reduces avoidable call-outs and lowers seasonal salt usage while maintaining safety. Efficiency is strengthened through consistent workflows that record shift activity: selected routes, key temperature and ice indicators (including sub-zero periods and minimum temperatures), treatment timing, spreading method and salt type. This reduces manual administration, removes fragmented notes and standardises reporting.

Treatment records can be automatically generated as clear PDF reports, supporting handovers, audits and post-event reviews without additional workload. Because actions are logged by route and salt type, depot stock levels update automatically.To reduce uncertainty from sparse observation networks, OpenWeather is running proof-of-concepts to expand capture of on-premise and near-road conditions. These focus on temperature and surface heat dynamics, wind behaviour, precipitation, air quality and related climate signals.Read full case study here.