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6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The research project is supported financially by the former
Swedish Road Administration, the former Swedish Railway
Administration, both organisations now joined as the Swedish
Transport Administration (Trafikverket), the Development Fund
of the Swedish Construction Industry (SBUF), the Swedish
Geotechnical Institute, and Luleå University of Technology.
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