Winter road management covers all measures taken to keep roads, cycle paths and pavements safe and accessible during the winter season. A winter management plan may include a variety of actions, ranging from preventive measures to gritting and snow clearance. The goal is clear: ensuring safety, guaranteeing accessibility and maintaining reliable public services. Increasingly, winter maintenance plans are being designed and executed with the support of digital winter management tools.

In the United Kingdom and across Europe, the primary responsibility for winter road maintenance lies with local authorities. Working together with contractors and service providers, they ensure that public spaces remain safe and accessible. Councils may also deploy their own equipment and crews to carry out gritting and snow clearance. To plan, communicate and execute effectively, the right software is essential. Jewel provides this software, making winter management more efficient, transparent and data-driven.

Jewel provides a dedicated module for winter road management, including route planning for gritting and snow clearing, real-time driver navigation, and progress tracking.

Every action is logged automatically. This makes it easy to demonstrate compliance with service-level agreements or legal requirements, and to answer citizen inquiries.

Drivers follow clear, step-by-step instructions on their tablet, showing exactly where to go and what to do. This avoids confusion, even when a different driver covers the route.

By ensuring that gritting and plowing are done precisely where needed, Jewel reduces the risk of untreated roads. Updated routes and live data help drivers respond quickly to changing conditions.

The winter management module can be implemented quickly, often within a week, and adapted to existing routes and vehicles.

Training is quick and simple. Even seasonal staff with little digital experience can follow the system after a short introduction.