The Path to Sustainable Road Maintenance in Moldova

The global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath exacerbated the critical challenges faced by many developing countries in securing external financial resources to rehabilitate and expand their road networks, at the same time when these countries have been struggling to improve road maintenance sustainability through obtaining more adequate funding from annually recurring domestic resources and improving operations and institutional capacity. This has been a special challenge to some lower income Newly Independent States (NIS) in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union which, since the late 1990s, were facing high transport costs and constrains to economic growth associated with deteriorating conditions of their road networks. Most of these countries have been seeking assistance to plan and implement road investments from International Financial Institutions (IFIs) who provide financing for the road sector, where such financing, in most cases, include conditions related to sustainable road maintenance. The Republic of Moldova (Moldova) is the case in point for this paper focusing on the transformation of the road sector from a national road network in mostly poor to bad condition about a decade ago, without a coherent investment plan, and with inadequate road maintenance, to the present where an improved Moldovan road sector is managed under a comprehensive long term investment strategy including mostly road rehabilitation of the existing road network financed mainly by IFIs, coupled with special focus on continued progress to sustainable road maintenance based on policy, more adequate and stable funding, and improved operational efficiency and institutional capacity.

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  • English

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  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 17p
  • Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

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  • Accession Number: 01552153
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 15-4622
  • Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
  • Created Date: Jan 29 2015 1:57PM