PROPOSAL FOR NEW WINTER ROAD MAINTENANCE STRATEGY: MINSALT

The MINSALT project has resulted in a proposal for a new winter maintenance strategy that shows how winter road maintenance can be organized so that its objectives can be attained. By adopting the proposed strategy, it is possible to reduce salt consumption. The overall goal of road maintenance is to help maintain the country's total resources at a high level of efficiency. The objectives can be broken down into several road maintenance aims, including a high standard of traffic safety, good trafficability and high degree of availability, low vehicle costs, and a good environment. Ways that these aims can be achieved on rural areas and in municipalities in the winter are explained. Proposed measures, methods, and resources are also presented.