Sveaskog streamlines the road process

In Sweden, there are 210,000 kilometers of forest roads. After the Swedish Transport Administration Sveaskog is the second largest road owner in Sweden managing 43000 kilometres of “private” road. The administration is expensive with a lot of manual paper work primarily due to a lack of digital links with road maintenance contractors.

Triona is now developing a field solution for contractors, where work orders can easily be managed and reported on a mobile or tablet.  

Sveaskog sees a lot of opportunities with the new solution. It will increase efficiency and reduce cost. The system will also enable a common way of working and increased transparency in the organization i.e. show when and where actions are planned and executed. It will also lead to increased transparency between Sveaskog and subcontractors which will give the subcontractors better visibility and planning of their work. Sveaskog will as well achieve a faster turnaround of the work carried out.

“There are several reasons why we chose Triona as a supplier. They know our existing IT solutions and how to maximize the synergies with other systems. Triona also has a huge amount of domain knowledge in forestry and road administration, says Christer Ranvald, project manager at Sveaskog”  

A pilot study was conducted in spring 2023 and development started thereafter. The work is a collaboration between Sveaskog and Triona following Sveaskog’s implementation of the SAFe framework. In this project, Triona’s roles are lead developer, architect, requirements analyst, developer, test lead, and scrum master. Triona’s expertise within the GIS domain is key where the map-based solution is critical for the subcontractor’s day-to-day activities.

The solution is a progressive web application with support for offline mode. The map is developed on open source software and the server components are deployed in Azure. The solution will be integrated with Triona’s Road Maintenance system (VFS) where information about contractors, road objects and actions will be fetched.

During autumn 2023 a test version will be trialled with a number of contractors, and we are eager and happy to contribute to a more efficient road process with increased data quality, a coherent way of working, and improved transparency!