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Traffic Management Finland’s year 2019: A clearer strategy for traffic control and investments to increase intelligence in the traffic ecosystem

During its first year of operations, Traffic Management Finland (TMF) has taken care of its core tasks in the control of maritime, road, railway and air traffic with confidence, while also strengthening the supply and usability of the traffic data offered by the company. The key objective, ensuring the safety of traffic without compromise, has been at the core of everything TMF does.

On 6 April, the company published the annual report and the financial statements for 2019. Key highlights of TMF’s year:

  • The operations of the vessel traffic centres, taking care of the safety of maritime traffic, prevented 10 potential groundings.
  • In railway traffic control, the aspects emphasised included, for instance, minimising the railway traffic disruptions caused by track work and developing the communications targeted at train passengers in different channels.
  • A tunnel almost half a kilometre long was opened in Keilaniemi, Espoo, on Ring Road I in the summer 2019 and the Teollisuuskatu–Veturitie traffic tunnels in Central Pasila, Helsinki, opened for traffic in the autumn. The company’s road traffic centre will also be responsible for the safety and incident management of the tunnels going forward.
  • In the field of air navigation, Helsinki Airport adopted new standard arrival routes in April 2019. They shorten flights in Finnish airspace and reduce emissions by an amount that is equal to 25 flights around the world.
  • Finns are increasingly making their mobility easier with real-time traffic information. With the Traffic Situation application published by the company, monitoring the real-time traffic situation can be easily done with a mobile device. Each month, more than 100,000 users used traffic information via the company’s own channels alone. Demand for open traffic data produced by TMF increased also in the Digitraffic service, in which different companies and other parties made an average of 14 million daily interface calls.

“Intelligent traffic control is largely based on having a real-time overview of traffic. Data-based services offer the opportunity to combine different modes of transport into travel and logistics chains. I believe that we are only at the beginning of this development. TMF’s aim is to develop new services that benefit society by opening data and creating partnerships with different parties involved in the traffic ecosystem,” says Traffic Management Finland’s CEO Pertti Korhonen.

Combining four modes of transport into a company provides new opportunities for developing services at the traffic system level as well as financial efficiency. Efficiency has been improved with joint procurement, support services, IT infrastructure and premises. This makes it possible to allocate financial resources to the further development of the effectiveness and efficiency of operations.

2019 in figures

The Group’s revenue for the financial year amounted to EUR 221.9 million and operating profit before taxes to EUR 20.8 million. Taxes and tax-like levies totalled EUR 7.1 million.

Road, maritime and railway traffic control services, ordered by the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, generated the majority of the revenue, with service sales value of EUR 141 million. Air navigation services sold to airlines amounted to EUR 59.0 million and to Finavia to EUR 16.2 million. 

Traffic Management Finland has a total of 1,103 employees in 29 locations in Finland.

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