Abstract
The Finnish Road Administration (Finnra) reviewed its traffic management policy during the year 2000. New trends in traffic politics, the rapid development of information technology and telematics, low funding and the established status of traffic management in overall road management made such an update necessary. The focus of traffic management has shifted towards establishing better traffic information on efficiency, incidents, road works, weather, road surface conditions and incident management. Such services require effective development of monitoring and data handling systems. The reviewed guidelines include funding allocation for different traffic management functions and will be revised every 3 to 4 years.