Fintraffic is a unique company in the world. Only in Finland is the management and control of all modes of transport centralised under one operator. Fintraffic offers and develops traffic control and management services for all modes of transport and responsibly ensures the safety and smoothness of traffic.
Fintraffic’s position creates unique opportunities. “The goal is to use smart services to develop the safest, smoothest and most environmentally friendly transport in the world”, says Senior Specialist in data and analytics Juha Smalin at Fintraffic’s rail traffic control business development team. Fintraffic aims, for example, to create digital systems and ecosystems to predict and control traffic flows more intelligently.
Fintraffic also invests in knowledge-based management. “Knowledge is the enemy of assumption. The more information one has, the better decisions one can make”, Smalin says.
Digital solutions boost work efficiency and leadership
Fintraffic and Fintraffic Railway Ltd., which is responsible for rail traffic control, have been working with Digia since 2017. A couple of years earlier, the company separated from the state railway company VR, which meant many systems had to be developed from scratch. Smalin says that the systems certainly produced a vast amount of data, but it was hardly utilised at all.
Business decisions often had to be made on the basis of knowledge passed from one generation of employees to another and employee experience, because there was no accurate information.
“We wanted to incorporate knowledge into the process to support decision-making, which is why we started systematically storing and using data”, Smalin says. Digia has been a key partner in this, and the work was expanded with the centralisation of the control and management of four different modes of transport under Fintraffic. As a result, Digia has implemented several different analytics solutions for the group.