page_title: Roadex Project
section_title: ROADEX II, 2002–2005
hierarchical_section_title: Roadex Project / Projects 1998–2012 / ROADEX II, 2002–2005
caption_attribution_description: English: ROADEX II logo reduced
context_page_description: The ROADEX Project was an EU-funded collaboration of northern European roads organisations from Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden that aimed to improve the condition of rural road networks. The project started as a pilot in 1998 to share best practice, to research and develop new knowledge, and to implement and test new solutions; it is still active, as the ROADEX Network, and currently comprises 13 partner organisations.
  It has now been running for 22 years and has become a centre of information for all things concerning the management of rural roads. Its website averages over 5,000 hits per month from around the world seeking information and strategies for dealing with issues of poorly performing roads, including Banked turns, Cross slopes, traction, Drainage gradients, and in the European Campaign for Safe Road Design.
  The project was awarded a European Union RegioStars special mention in 2009. and in 2018 its strategies and technologies were recognised in a Global Road Achievement Award by the International Road Federation for ″Asset Preservation and Maintenance Management″
  The project became self-funding as the ROADEX Network in 2012.
context_section_description: This second project continued to be part-funded by the EU and aimed at developing new ways for the management of rural roads. The four members from the pilot were joined by two new organisations from Scotland: Forest Enterprise of Scotland and Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar and six associate partners: The Norwegian Hauliers Association, The Finnish Road Administration Lapland District, Metsähallitus Forestry, Stora Enso Metsä, Metsäliitto Osuukunta, and The Forestry Centre of Lapland. The new associate partners from the forestry and paper industry brought experience of using forest gravel roads to the project and extended its researches into all road surfaces.
  The formal outputs of the co-operation included a DVD Focussing on low volume roads in the Northern Periphery and 11 technical reports.
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