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Owing to the exceptional increase in heavy vehicle traffic, roads began to deteriorate quickly. The need
for rehabilitation works is rapidly appearing on the motorway in the Štajerska and Pomurje areas.
Intensive efforts were devoted in 2007 to dealing with the lack of parking space for heavy freight vehicles,
particularly on the motorway section in the Štajerska area. This called for the additional engagement of
employees at the Motorway Maintenance Centre Slovenske Konjice.
A new section of the Gorenjska leg of the motorway (Podtabor — PeraËica) in a length of 3.0 km was given
over to traffic. On 31 December 2007, as many as 525,398 equivalent kilometres of motorway and other
roads were being managed by DARS d.d..
Within the scope of implemented projects, the following tasks were completed in 2007:
• a work order programme for monitoring the performance of works was implemented and is being
executed in all motorway maintenance centres,
• a work order programme for monitoring machine equipment was executed up to a phase enabling its
application in all motorway maintenance centres in 2008,
• a project for the management of public utility devices was completed and provides for the systematic
performance of tasks in this area during daily work,
• specialised teams carried out works in 2007 on ground markings, cleaning of tunnels, cleaning and
inspection of gutters. A team was trained to operate a crack-filling machine.
Intensive efforts were devoted to the maintenance of rest areas. The Company began to redefine its
relations with lessees (Petrol, OMV). A precise inventory of conditions in rest areas was conducted.
The Preliminary Works Department carried out all tasks relating to the protection of roads as defined in
the Roads Act (Chapter V — Protection of Public Roads and Traffic), and resolved insurance issues relating
to liability and claims for damages caused by traffic participants on motorways. Other tasks performed
by the Department included:
• the preparation of specific offers for subcontractors or contractors of DARS,
• the elaboration of pricelists of works, which was transferred to the Sales and Marketing Department
during the course of the year,
• the preparation of opinions regarding motorway closures.
Motorway Operation
In 2007, two plans were adopted in connection with the operation of motorways and expressways:
• a regional safety and rescue plan in case of major traffic accidents on motorways in the Posavje region
(adopted by the Administration of RS for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, Brežice branch), and
• a regional safety and rescue plan in case of major traffic accidents on motorways in the Primorska
region (adopted by the Administration of RS for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, Koper branch).
Together with the Regional safety and rescue plan for the Western Štajerska region adopted in 2006,
three regional safety and rescue plans were in place at the end of 2007. In other regions (Kranj, Maribor,
Ljubljana, Murska Sobota), the Company prepared, together with competent branches, expert bases for
the preparation of regional safety and rescue plans in case of major traffic accidents on motorways.
In 2007 all works on motorways and expressways and all maintenance works were carried out under road
closures, which are regulated by the Rules on the marking and protection of works on public roads and
obstacles in road traffic (Official Gazette of RS, no. 116/2006). Throughout the year, the Company issued
a total of 128 road closure orders for major works (rehabilitation, oversurfacing, elimination of defects
in the warranty period, and similar), while regular maintenance works and interventions are carried out
under daily closures.
44 ANNUAL REPORT DARS d.d. 2007 BUSINESS REPORT