<p>During its lifetime, a road goes through a number of different stages; pre-study,</p><p>inquiry of the road, work plan, documenting stage, building stage and operating</p><p>stage. The operating stage is the one that takes the longest time and costs the</p><p>most. Those have a tendency of becoming unnecessarily high because the project</p><p>engineers don’t always take the management and maintenance prerequisites into</p><p>conditions.</p><p>To decrease the management and maintenance costs, the Swedish Road</p><p>Administration SouthEast has been in need of a work procedure that makes the</p><p>roaddesign engineers take the management and maintenance of the road into</p><p>consideration. This shall be achieved by a checklist where the most common</p><p>designs that lead to increased management- and maintenance costs are compiled</p><p>and listed.</p><p>Through interviews with project leaders in management, the most common</p><p>problems have been identified, analyzed and summarized under the headlines</p><p>winter-road, vegetation, road equipment and road designs.</p><p>To elucidate the problem from several points of view, interviews were</p><p>implemented with project leaders in investment and roaddesign engineers. During</p><p>these interviews opinions emerged about the way the checklist should be designed</p><p>and used.</p><p>The checklist was designed with the analyzed points, which emerged after the</p><p>interview with a project leader in management, in regard. Taken into</p><p>consideration were the opinions of the project leaders in investment and</p><p>roaddesign engineers.</p><p>This resulted in a checklist consisting of two parts. Part 1 consists of aspects that</p><p>should be taken into consideration in the beginning of the road-planning and Part</p><p>2 of aspects that should be considered in the finishing phase of it.</p><p>Then, the checklist was tested on an existing road build plan by means of having</p><p>its roaddesign engineer filling out the checklist and make comments to the</p><p>answers. The checklist got good response.</p><p>The management and maintenance costs are not always taken into consideration.</p><p>Mainly because other aspects, such as safety, aesthetics and the opinions of the</p><p>roads users and other parties, are prioritized.</p><p>Furthermore the communication between the project leaders in management and</p><p>in maintenance is poor due to lack of time, and as a result similar mistakes are</p><p>made over and over again.</p><p>The checklist gives the project leaders in investment and the roaddesign engineers</p><p>help to put management and maintenance costs in focus. The checklist is also a</p><p>support for the project engineers by giving them the means to comment on their</p><p>choices and thereby remember why they chose a certain design.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hj-924 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Johansson, Sabina, Bergkvist, Mattias |
| Publisher | Jönköping University, JTH, Civil Engineering, Jönköping University, JTH, Civil Engineering |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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