Within a few months, a small consulting group from Asplan Viak and Rambøll has planned a corridor for the future four-lane E18 between Dørdal-Tvedestrand and Arendal-Grimstad, two stretches totaling 75 km. The state-owned road developer Nye Veier AS gave the engineers the task of preparing a municipal subplan before summer who then swiftly returned with optimal corridors for the road alignment.
The corridor alignment work is an important part of the planning program and will be a basis for decision making in the municipal subplan the consultants work on. Seven municipalities have entered into an inter-municipal planning cooperation, which aims at approving a municipal subplan for the new E18 roads by summer 2019.
Ambitious plan – exciting measures
“Nye Veier wants to make use of any new tool that can help streamline the planning process,” says Nye Veier's project manager Solfrid Førland. “The overall goal of the road project is to make it socioeconomically profitable. We believe model-based collaboration and open information flow contribute to success. Therefore, we will complete the road project through a full digital planning process, and we have contracted the consultants using the Best Value Procurement method to do that. In order to succeed with the project, it is important that all stakeholders are kept oriented on a regular basis and are given the opportunity to provide input.”
