Case Study: ACV achieves faster, safer winter road salting with DTN

MeteoGroup supports winter road management in Dutch municipalities

ACV, the joint venture of four Dutch municipalities (Ede, Renkum, Veenendaal and Wageningen), faces the annual challenge of managing winter salting across some 1,700 km of roads and cycle paths with 120 staff and 34 salt trucks on standby. Balancing traffic safety, environmental concerns and cost, ACV needed reliable, localized road-surface forecasts and rapid alerts to decide when and where to salt while coordinating work across municipal boundaries. DTN (delivering the MeteoGroup services described) provided the forecasting and monitoring capabilities ACV required.

DTN’s meteorologists and tools — including the Weather Room support, road-surface forecasts (distributed by e‑mail), the Gladheid.nl reporting system fed by six local sensors, and the RoadMaster app — give ACV 36‑hour forecasts and two‑hour precipitation/slip alerts, plus 24/7 telephone consultation. Those services let ACV mobilize crews typically within hours (salting deployments run about four hours per alert), make faster, coordinated salting decisions, and avoid gaps at municipal borders; the result is improved safety and more targeted salt use with clearer, measurable lead times and sensor-backed surface data provided by DTN.

ACV

Jacob van de Kolk

Winter Maintenance Coordinator