PRIVATE-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP IN THE SLOVENIA WINTER ROAD MAINTENANCE

This paper describes how winter maintenance (WM) is a complex and expensive service, which represents a large amount of road maintenance costs for countries having severe winters. In Slovenia, current estimates show that about 65% of maintenance costs are because of the winter. The central question is therefore: How to make the winter maintenance service more cost effective? There are two important basic issues that need to be considered, the organizational scheme of winter maintenance and the actual winter (climatic) conditions of the entire country. Both issues are presented in the paper. Important weather (climactic) variables are briefly described, and a possible consideration of risk estimation for seasonal snowfalls is also presented.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Pengal, P
  • Galicic, M
  • Gregorc, C
  • Miljevic, J
• Conference:
  • New Challenges for Winter Road Service. XIth International Winter Road Congress
  • Location: Sapporo, Japan
  • Date: 2002-1-28 to 2002-1-31
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost control; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices; Optimization; Snowfall; Winter maintenance
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00921176
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 15 2002 12:00AM