THE EXPERIENCE OF EURE ET LOIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY

The French territorial Department of Eure-et-Loir, the administrative centre of which is the town of Chartres, is approximately 100 kilometers to the southwest of Paris, and has one of the most extensive Departmental Road Networks in the whole of France: total highway length is approximately 7,500 kilometers. The local government authority [Conseil Gnral] has the responsibility of managing this asset, the value of which is substantial, set at FRF 27 billion. The definition of the master plan for the Departmental Road Network made it possible to divide the network up into four ranked categories on the basis of criteria related to economic considerations, tourism and traffic load. The first two categories (3,020 kilometers or 40 % of the Department network) form the core network for the territorial Department and are used by a relatively high level of heavy goods traffic (more than 100 trucks per day per direction on approximately 20% of total highway length). As an indication, and to help the associated goals and issues to be seen more clearly, the cost of bringing up the core Department road network to required standards is evaluated at FRF 400 million.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Sauterey, D
• Conference:
  • The XXIInd PIARC World Road Congress
  • Location: Durban, South Africa
  • Date: 2003-10-19 to 2003-10-25
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 14p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Asset management; Economic analysis; Heavy duty vehicles; Highways; Local government agencies; Master plans; Network analysis; Traffic; Transportation planning; Trucking
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00986259
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 24 2005 12:00AM