essexpartnership

Shaping

the future

of essex

24th March 2010

Martin Roesti

ABM Spiez, Kanton, Bern in Switzerland

Winter-Maintenance in Switzerland

National Roads Switzerland

Our area of

operation

Road network in Switzerland

• 1780 km Motorway network in operation

• 291 km tunnels (220)

• 125 km Motorways under construction

Average daily traffic in CH

Our area: Bern

Salt

Proportion of salt to thaw

28 %

Salt consumption

only 150‘000 tonnes

Saldome

80‘000 Tonnes

Our vehicles and equipment

Salt storage on place

Mixing

Liquid Salt & Safecote

Alarmsystem

Information system

Automatic spraying system

Winter tires mandatory in CH

Lack of experience

too few resources?

Black clearance

Opening the Crossings (Alpes)

Thank you very much for your Attention