Maintenance of Municipal Infrastructure

Abstract

The overall aim of this paper is to work out the guidelines for efficient maintenance planning connected with the basic public utilities. The empirical section acts as a platform for the next section where the economic model is related to the empirical results. It is crucial to emphasize that planning should be carried out in two stages: (1) The fundamental planning problem; and (2) the complementary control problem. First the fundamental planning problem results in a plan where each separate object has a number of combinations of maintenance measures together with a point in time for each measure. In the next stage the resources needed and the budget requirements for each of these combinations is discussed.