ABSTRACT
Within the framework of the Swedish Commission on Maintenance and Costs (DKU), an autonomous alliance between six city authorities, a comparison study1 of bridge maintenance costs has been carried out by the bridge committee of the commission. Members of this committee were
Messrs J.Gustavsson (Gothenburg), I.Karlsved (Västerås), A.Malmberg (Stockholm), C.- H.Silfwerbrand (Stockholm), W.Skottke (Solna) and G. Wegrell (Västerås). In order to make the cost comparison study by the committee more comprehensive, not only the street authorities of Stockholm, Gothenburg, Västerås and Solna participated in the commission but also the Swedish National Road Administration was included. The author of this paper was therefore requested to join the committee, which also acted as an
advisory group to Ingvarsson and Westerberg2 when this state-of-the-art report on operation and maintenance of bridges was prepared.
