| Summary: | Winter road maintenance is a necessity during the winter in Sweden, since the weather reduce traffic safety and accessibility, which have great impact on people and society in general. Unlike the degradation process of paved road surface and subgrade, that develops slowly over several years, the general state of the winter road can change significantly within a couple of hours, thus demanding more of road maintenance organisations when it comes to planning and initiating maintenance actions. Today there is a wide range of available sensor technology, that can be utilized to monitor the condition of the winter road and provide decision makers with the required information to initiate maintenance activities at the right time. However, it is necessary for the user, e.g. maintenance staff and decision makers, to know how this type of technology can be applied to make the winter road maintenance more efficient. The aim of this thesis is to define the winter road maintenance process, what obstacles and problems are present and the information requirements that are associated with planning, initiating and performing the winter road maintenance activities. The thesis focuses on the maintenance process for municipalities in northern Sweden using the city of Kiruna as a case study. An interview study was performed at Tekniska Verken in Kiruna to collect empirical data, which forms the basis for the process- and flow charts that are presented in the result. Common failure modes, connected to the failures that usually leads to the initiation of a maintenance activity, are identified, based on the interviews and the quality declaration for winter road maintenance. The failure modes were connected to the workflows, to show the phases of the workflow where the information is useful. Based on this, suitable sensor technology is proposed, which partly or fully meet the identified information requirements, and monitors the interesting failure modes of each maintenance activity. The results show that the greatest need for ...
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