Case Study: UK Tender Support Company achieves 9.2% winter maintenance savings with DTN's Route-Based Forecasting

Supporting Effective Winter Road Maintenance with Accurate Weather Data

UK Tender Support Company faced the common winter-maintenance dilemma: treating roads too late causes accidents and congestion, while treating them unnecessarily wastes budget and harms the environment. To give local authorities the confidence to time gritting precisely, they partnered with DTN, adopting DTN’s RoadMaster platform and Route-Based Forecasting to provide hyper-local, route-level road surface forecasts and expert forecast consultancy.

DTN deployed RoadMaster, route-based forecasts, weather stations and IVR forecast support across more than 100 highway authorities covering 160,000+ miles of public roads, enabling data-driven gritting decisions. The results were measurable: Northamptonshire County Council reported a 9.2% reduction in its winter maintenance budget using DTN’s route-based forecasts, while Sutton, Oxfordshire and Essex cited faster mobilization, fewer unnecessary treatments, clearer action logs and improved operational efficiency thanks to DTN.