MANAGEMENT AND FINANCING OF ROADS: AN AGENDA FOR REFORM

The author discusses the road maintenance initiative in Africa, a program managed by The World Bank. First he addresses the regional context, the impact of poor road maintenance, and the superficial causes of poor road maintenance. He highlights the solutions that they have come to under the road maintenance initiative, and identifies the real causes of poor road maintenance. He discusses how to win public support for more road funding, and concludes with how to channel funds securely to a road sector.

  • Availability:
  • Supplemental Notes:
    • This paper was presented in Forum Session "Innovative Financing of Transport Privatization: International Examples". These proceedings, Volume 8 of the TRF 36th Annual Conference, were funded for publication by the UPS Foundation.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Transportation Research Forum

    11250-8 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 8
    Reston, VA  United States  20190
  • Authors:
    • HEGGIE, I
  • Conference:
  • Publication Date: 1994

Language

  • English

Media Info

Subject/Index Terms

Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00727127
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 8
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Oct 25 1996 12:00AM