Management of the infrastructure on Switzerland's motorways and national roads, and management information system for roads and traffic.

The Federal Roads Office FEDRO is the Swiss technical agency for road infrastructure and individual road transport. The Swiss motorways account for more than 40 percent of the total traffic volume on its roads. The motorway network is thus the backbone of mobility in Switzerland. FEDRO is the agency in charge of the motorways, and in this capacity is responsible for the adequate functionality, safety, acceptability and availability of this infrastructure. Professional infrastructure management therefore has to be a core competence of this organisation. The supreme objective of infrastructure management is to do the RIGHT thing at the right time and in the right place. This goal can only be achieved if sufficiently reliable data are available regarding the configuration, condition and use of the infrastructure and the measures that have been initiated. Accordingly it is of great importance to have an information system geared to these requirements. The methods and instruments for ensuring professional infrastructure management have been further developed at FEDRO in recent years and have meanwhile attained a significant level of advancement. They have become an indispensable part of daily work in both the federal government and many cantons, and make a crucial contribution towards significantly more effectively and more efficiently ensuring the functionality, safety, acceptability and availability of road infrastructure. Thanks to modern, Internet-based IT applications, the business processes of various organisations are supported and at the same time the prerequisites are created for homogeneous datasets to be available all over Switzerland. Whereas for quite a long period of time priority was given to building up the IT system, today the focus is on data provision and data maintenance. The information that follows provides an insight into how infrastructure management is carried out at FEDRO on the one hand, and into the structure and content of the entire IT system and its sub-systems on the other hand. (Author/publisher)