ROADEX Network

13 August 2008 - After being hosted for a few months on a temporary web site the
e-learning package is now running directly from the ROADEX web site's server.

24 March 2008 - Final reports and videos published on this web site.

21 February 2008 - Steering Committee and potential new partners from Greenland, Russia and Ireland meet in Rovaniemi, Finland to prepare ideas for future ROADEX research.

31 December 2007 - NPP funding window closed.

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The ROADEX Network

The ROADEX network is a collaboration of public and private organisations dealing with low volume roads of the Northern Periphery.

These roads are lifelines for rural areas in the Northern Periphery. They give access to housing, employment, hospitals and social infrastructure and assure local community safety. They are also economic drivers, providing essential transport links for the indigenous industries of tourism, fishing, farming and forestry.

Ensuring that these local roads remain serviceable and reliable is therefore a key element for sustainable development in the Northern Periphery and their effective maintenance, and improvement, has a major part to play in the survivability of the areas and their contribution to growth and development in the whole of Europe.

The ROADEX network was born in 1998 in the form of a "pilot" project with the aim of :-

"Creating effective technical exchange & co-operation
between road districts in the Northern Periphery of Europe."

ROADEX II continued in the spring of 2002 with more partners to develop ideas generated in the first project, this time involving industry stakeholders such as the forest and haulage industries.

ROADEX III is now underway and will run until December 2007. It will implement the new knowledge and techniques developed under ROADEX II in the partners' organisations and others. It will provide seminars, consultancy, and training tools to transfer the new knowledge to those who have not yet realised that it is of use to them in managing their road networks.

The benefits of partnership

Chairman of TEC Services, Councillor John Laing says: “The Council has been involved in ROADEX for over 9 years and the project is held in high regard as a top class example of transnational co-operation. All members share the common goal of delivering excellent stewardship of the road network in their countries. It is through sharing resources, research, best practice and experiences with each other that we can take new knowledge and use it to make improvements to our road networks which are a vital lifeline to our communities.”

“The mass of knowledge we now have thanks to ROADEX will provide us with the tools to make the most of what we have and help to substantiate our need for further investment of our network of rural roads.”

The Lead partner for ROADEX III is the Northern Region of the Swedish Road Administration, whose Deputy Road Director, Per-Mats Öhberg, is the chairman of the ROADEX Steering Committee. Mr Öhberg says that “The fact that the project has been running for almost 9 years in 3 different phases shows that we are on the right track and the outcomes are benefitial to us and others. This also proves that common challenges and solutions are a strong glue between organisations, even if they are far away from each other, and with different languages and cultural backgrounds.”