A traffic survey conducted by Fintraffic reveals concern about climate change reflected in the attitudes Finns have towards transport. A clear majority strives to take environmental issues into account in their driving habits, but also before getting behind the wheel. Economical driving and avoiding unnecessary driving are among the most popular ways to consider the environment in traffic. People are also interested in cycling or walking in their daily life.

Fintraffic’s Board of Directors has appointed Sanna Järvenpää, MSc (Tech), as CEO of Fintraffic Railway as of 29 June 2023. Järvenpää succeeds Pia Julin, who became CEO of Fintraffic on 14 June 2023.

Fintraffic’s Board of Directors has appointed Pia Julin, MSc. (Tech), eMBA, as the company’s CEO as of 14 June 2023. Julin succeeds Pertti Korhonen, who has been Fintraffic’s CEO since 2019 and will be leaving the company as agreed with the Board of Directors. Korhonen will now be focusing on his work with growth companies and an investment bank.

In the traffic data ecosystem, our community creates solutions for mobility by combining platforms and service providers. Building the transport system of the future requires cooperation from the entire sector.

The slowdown of Finland’s national economy has been reflected in traffic volumes and heavy goods transport in particular during the first three months of the year.

Finding public transport services, timetables and routes is now easier than ever in Finland. The route planner opas.matka.fi was updated on 30 March 2023. The route planning services of other public transport service providers will also improve, as they mainly use data from the same backend system, which is now even more comprehensive for Finland as a whole.

As of autumn 2023, Fintraffic Road will be utilising Waze’s data in traffic information displays to streamline traffic flow on Ring Road III. Fintraffic is involved in the “Waze for cities” programme, in which partners can utilise traffic data collected by Waze and also share their own data with Waze.

Tender for a national aggregated database service

A survey conducted by Fintraffic indicates that there is a great need for centralised traffic data. Fully comprehensive data on traffic in urban street networks is not available as yet – for this reason, the real-time situational picture of traffic provided by navigators and map services, for instance, is often incomplete. Now, Fintraffic invites municipalities, contractors, service providers and IT system suppliers to come on board and share data to streamline traffic for everyone.