Paper
Effective Winter Highway Maintenance through Application of Partnering Concept
- Authors:
- Björn Birgisson; Hans Lind; Adel Abdi
- Abstract
- -In many countries winter road maintenance is outsourced to private contractors. Selecting appropriate contract for performance of winter highway maintenance and implementing it in an efficient way is then very important for both results and costs. Writing contracts concerning winter road maintenance is however difficult as weather conditions are hard to describe in an exact way and as what is rational to do in a certain situation, depends on expected future conditions. Problems during recent harsh winters in Sweden have clearly illustrated this. The study argues, with reference both to theoretical and empirical studies, that a partnering concept can improve efficiency in outsourced winter road maintenance. A detailed model of how partnering can be implemented is presented for winter road maintenance contracts together with systems for information supply such as International Roughness Index – surface unevenness measurement and Road Weather Information System.
- Keywords
- Construction Contract; Partnering; Performance Contract; Strategic Alliance; Winter Maintenance Contract
- StartPage
- 112
- EndPage
- 125
- Doi
- 10.5963/IJEME0303003