Melvin
Melvin– which stands for Melden van Verstoringen in de Infrastructuur in Nederland (Reporting Disruptions in Infrastructure in the Netherlands) – is the national application for entering and coordinating works and events, whether they take place on the road, rail or water.
Administrators and contractors use Melvin to report planned closures, coordinate them and make them available to navigation services and other service providers. This keeps traffic safe and predictable.
What can you do with Melvin?
Melvin makes it easier to coordinate work and events between all parties involved.
You have insight into all planned work from different systems, even as a traveller. Contractors can enter notifications and submit them directly to the appropriate road authority.
Are multiple road, waterway or rail authorities involved? Melvin automatically recognises this and includes them in the coordination process.
Underground work is also included: links with MoorWerkt and LTC are used to identify intersections with cables and pipes.
Do you work as a road, waterway or railway authority?
85% of municipalities and provinces already use Melvin.
Would you like to join? Then contact your regional Melvin administrator.
They will guide you through the process of joining, requesting accounts and setting up user rights.
Do you work as a contractor?
Request access from the administrator of your own contracting company.
You can enter reports on behalf of an administrator and submit them in Melvin.
Frequently asked questions
Melvin is the national digital tool for entering and coordinating planned works and events on roads, railways and waterways. Administrators use Melvin to report and coordinate closures, ensuring that traffic remains safe and predictable.
For all infrastructure managers in the Netherlands: road, waterway, and railway managers. Contractors (on behalf of managers) and service providers also use Melvin in their work processes.
Melvin automatically recognises whether other administrators are involved in a report. These parties are then immediately included in the coordination process.
Yes, reports are available as open data in DATEX II format. This allows navigation providers such as Google Maps or TomTom to provide users with up-to-date information.
Yes, planned works and events are shared via Melvin's public site. This creates transparency for all road users.
Yes, Melvin has been supporting waterway works since 2019.
Rijkswaterstaat has also been actively using Melvin to enter waterway reports since 2022. Railway works have been fully integrated into the system since 2024.
You can easily switch or link systems. Melvin also displays activities from systems such as SPIN (Rijkswaterstaat) and LTC (Andes). Only 6% of organisations still use a different reporting system. 9% do not yet have one.
Since October 2024, administrators have also been able to enter digital advance notices. This helps to provide earlier insight into planned work, even if the details are not yet finalised.
