Dr. Anita Ihs is,
since 1994, project manager and researcher at VTI within the field of
road maintenance and operations. She has been working with R&D
contracts from the Swedish Road Administration but also from the
European Commission and other clients. One major field of research
concerns pavement management systems and in this case particularly
models describing the road user effects of the road surface condition.
Dr. Ihs has been the project manager for a main project called “The
impact of road surface on traffic” during the period 1998-2004, where
the objective was to improve and complement the road user effect models
in the Swedish pavement management system. Another field of research
is techniques and methods for winter maintenance. Dr. Ihs has among
other things participated in the COST 344 action: Improvements to Snow
and Ice Control on European Roads. Dr. Ihs is since September 2006
the coordinator of the EU project HeavyRoute (Intellig