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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Please, post this for info through logprofs mailing list:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">On April 6, 2017, The Finnish Transport Agency opened up over 1.8 Terabytes of data (2.5 million separate .CSV files) collected in the automatic traffic counting system TMS. The Finnish Transport
Agency now offers open access to measurement data collected in the TMS system since 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><<a href="http://www.liikennevirasto.fi/web/en/-/the-finnish-transport-agency-has-opened-up-road-transport-measurement-data-never-before-have-we-opened-up-a-dataset-of-this-magnitude-">http://www.liikennevirasto.fi/web/en/-/the-finnish-transport-agency-has-opened-up-road-transport-measurement-data-never-before-have-we-opened-up-a-dataset-of-this-magnitude-</a>>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">This is part of a wider effort by the Finnish Government to make publicly collected societal data available in the public domain. This includes, for example, large parts of meteorological, cartographic,
sociological etc. data. One of the aims to provide such data platforms is to boost private sector innovations to various type of services and products.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(See e.g. the Mobility-as-a-Services, or MaaS, concept that is enabled by this type of data access:
<a href="http://maas.global/">http://maas.global/</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Further information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.liikennevirasto.fi/web/en/open-data/materials/tms-data"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.liikennevirasto.fi/web/en/open-data/materials/tms-data</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.liikennevirasto.fi/web/en/open-data"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.liikennevirasto.fi/web/en/open-data</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Dr. Lauri Ojala<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Professor of Logistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Operations & Supply Chain Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Turku School of Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">FIN-20014 University of Turku<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Mobile: +358 50 502 70 31<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:lauri.ojala@utu.fi">lauri.ojala@utu.fi</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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