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Norway has a forest road network of 50 000 km, where a single road typically has 4-5 owners. The current road network has been progressively extended since the 1960s. As a result of climate change and transition to heavier timber trucks, maintenance practices are becoming increasingly important.
Over the last decades there has been increased focus on cooperation between forest owners and road owner associations. This led to the development of road maintenance associations to coordinate tasks and maintenance between road associations across administrative borders. The activities for the maintenance associations drive task planning, cost distribution and accounting through a web-based platform (https://vvfweb.no/).
The VVM project (Road Maintenance module) aims to develop the next generation of web-based solutions for road- and road maintenance associations, to support a gradual upgrading of forest road standards. The current accounting platform has been in operation since 2008 and includes a historical database of maintenance activities and cost categories. The database spans 17 maintenance associations with 11 000 maintenance tasks across 458 roads and 1471 forest owners. The current management practices have been mapped at three stakeholder levels, and improvement potentials are identified.
One of the project goals is to ensure the dissemination of knowledge on effective summer maintenance and their costs. This presentation focuses therefore on the analysis of task-specific cost development from 2008 to 2024 from one region of southeastern Norway. The results support road owners in making realistic plans for maintenance tasks and budgets. It also documents the effects of cooperation through road maintenance associations road maintenance cost levels.
| Keywords | Information-systems; Cost-development; Cost-distribution; Cost-accounting |
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