Fintraffic’s national traffic priority system, which is set to be introduced this summer, will recognise the location of an emergency vehicle and automatically change the lights to green to facilitate its passage.
While the Helsinki transport authority’s mobile app is convenient, using it to buy a ticket after boarding a bus or tram could end up being very costly.
Icebreakers will still be needed far into the future as winters bring more extreme phenomena, with ice masses already as thick as 10 metres in some spots.