Commercial Management And Financing Of Roads

Author : Ian Graeme Heggie,Piers Vickers
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821342371

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Commercial Management and Financing of Roads by Ian Graeme Heggie,Piers Vickers Pdf

Printed on Demand. Limited stock is held for this title. If you would like to order 30 copies or more please contact [email protected] Contact [email protected], if currently unavailable. In developing and transition economies, 60 to 80 percent of all passenger and freight transport moves by road-the main form of access for most rural communities. Yet most of the 11 million kilometers of roads in these economies are badly maintained and poorly managed. This paper discusses one of the most effective ways to promote sound policies for managing and financing road networks--commercialization. It discusses the emerging central concept of bringing roads into the marketplace, putting them on a fee-for-service basis, and managing them like a business.

Author : Ian Graeme Heggie,Piers Vickers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Roads
ISBN : 0821346717

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Financement et gestion commerciale des routes by Ian Graeme Heggie,Piers Vickers Pdf

This report is directed at those who are interested in improving management and financing of roads and making them sustainable in the long term. In developing and transition economies 60 to 80 percent of all passenger and freight transport moves by road, and roads provide the main form of access to most rural communities. Yet most of the roads in these countries are poorly managed and badly maintained. Two regional programs--one in Africa and one in Latin America--were launched to better understand the underlying causes of such poor road maintenance policies and to explore ways of establishing a secure and stable flow of funds. Through these programs, working conclusions about the most effective ways to promote sound policies for managing and financing road networks are drawn. The emerging central concept is commercializaton, which requires four basic building blocks: a) establishing responsibility for managing roads; b) creating ownership of roads by involving users in their management; c) stabilizing road finance by securing an adequate, continual flow of funds; and d) strengthening management of roads by introducing sound businesses practices.

Author : Ian Graeme Heggie
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821331434

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Management and Financing of Roads by Ian Graeme Heggie Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 275.This paper summarizes the experience gained from nine countries participating in the Africa Road Maintenance Initiative (RMI)--Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The author concludes that commercialization is the key to road maintenance reform: bring roads into the marketplace, put them on a fee-for-service basis, and manage them like a business instead of a bureaucracy.Commercialization requires four complementary reforms: - Ownership--involve road users in management to win public support for more road spending- Financing--secure an adequate and stable flow of funds - Responsibility--identify all those involved in the operation and clarify the responsibilities of each - Management--introduce sound business practices and strengthen managerial accountability.The RMI, launched by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the World Bank, has spent the past six years working with African countries to identify the underlying causes of poor road maintenance policies and develop an agenda for reforming them. The initiative attempts to put the management and financing of roads on a sustainable long-term basis.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789715614894

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Road Funds and Road Maintenance by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Singling out roads as an important factor in economic development, this report presents the findings of a regional technical assistance inquiry carried out to examine the problem of road funding in Asia with the aim of proposing case-specific solutions. Particular attention is paid to the data collected during road assessments performed in the Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. Also discussed are a number of possible strategies for combating road-maintenance neglect across Asia.

Author : T.F. Fwa
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420039504

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The Handbook of Highway Engineering by T.F. Fwa Pdf

Modern highway engineering reflects an integrated view of a road system's entire lifecycle, including any potential environmental impacts, and seeks to develop a sustainable infrastructure through careful planning and active management. This trend is not limited to developed nations, but is recognized across the globe. Edited by renowned authority

Author : Richard Robinson,Bent Thagesen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482288209

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Road Engineering for Development by Richard Robinson,Bent Thagesen Pdf

Developing countries in the tropics have different natural conditions and different institutional and financial situations to industrialized countries. However, most textbooks on highway engineering are based on experience from industrialized countries with temperate climates, and deal only with specific problems. Road Engineering for Development (published as Highway and Traffic Engineering in Developing Countries in its first edition) provides a comprehensive description of the planning, design, construction and maintenance of roads in developing countries. It covers a wide range of technical and non-technical problems that may confront road engineers working in this area. The technical content of the book has been fully updated and current development issues are focused on. Designed as a fundamental text for civil engineering students this book also offers a broad, practical view of the subject for practising engineers. It has been written with the assistance of a number of world-renowned specialist professional engineers with many years experience in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Central America.

Author : Gabriel Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351487894

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Street Smart by Gabriel Roth Pdf

The poor health of today's roads--a subject close to the hearts of motorists, taxpayers, and government treasurers around the world--has resulted from faulty incentives that misdirect government decision-makers, according to the contributors to Street Smart. During the 1990s, bad government decision-making resulted in the U.S. Interstate Highway System growing by only one seventh the rate of traffic growth. The poor maintenance of existing roads is another concern. In cities around the world, highly political and wasteful government decision-making has led to excessive traffic congestion that has created long commutes, reduced safety, and caused loss of leisure time.Street Smart examines the privatization of roads in theory and in practice. The authors see at least four possible roles for private companies, beyond the well-known one of working under contract to design, build, or maintain governmentally provided roads. These include testing and licensing vehicles and drivers; management of government-owned facilities; franchising; and outright private ownership. Two chapters describe the history of private roads in the United Kingdom and the United States. Contemporary examples are provided of road pricing, privatizing, and contracting out are evident in environs as diverse as Singapore, Southern California, and Scandinavia, and cities as different as Bergen, Norway, and London, England. Finally, several chapters examine strategies for implementing privatization. The principles governing providing scarce resources in free societies are well known. We apply them to such necessities as energy, food, and water so why not to "road space"? The main obstacle to private, or semi-private, ownership of roads is likely to remain the reluctance of the political class to give up a lucrative source of power and influence.Those who want decisions about road services to be controlled by the interplay of consumers and suppliers in free markets, rat

Author : John Whitelegg,Gary Haq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317709879

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The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice by John Whitelegg,Gary Haq Pdf

Transport is now a critical problem throughout the world, and it is set to get worse. Whether it is traffic congestion, crashes (10 million killed and injured each year), noise, air pollution, landscape destruction, or greenhouse gas emissions (of which transport is the fastest-growing source), the damage and the costs from our current forms of transport are dangerously high and getting worse. Policies and practical measures that can reduce and eliminate these problems are urgently needed. This Reader contains 16 important contributions on how to improve transport globally. They are based on sound science, sound people-centred analysis, and a strong awareness of equity and human rights. And they have been selected for their originality, the importance of the issues they focus on, the quality of their insight and their practical relevance. A further 7 commissioned chapters provide informative overviews of the transport problems specific to each region of the world, while the editors' Introduction and Conclusion frames the discussion and lays out the scale of the challenges we face. As a whole, the Reader demonstrates what steps can be taken to improve both transport provision and use, in both the developed and the developing world, while reducing environmental and health impacts. It will serve as an invaluable sourcebook for anyone researching or attempting to address the issues associated with world transport policy and practice, whether students, planners, business people or policy-makers.

Author : Heinrich Bofinger
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780821386057

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Africa's Transport Infrastructure by Heinrich Bofinger Pdf

This book will be of interest to governments in the region and to multilateral and bilateral aid and lending agencies, as well as to graduate students, faculty, and researchers in African studies and transport studies. --Book Jacket.

Author : Antonio Estache,Ginés de Rus
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821347217

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Privatization and Regulation of Transport Infrastructure by Antonio Estache,Ginés de Rus Pdf

The 1990s saw an increase in the liberalisation of transport policies and a strengthening of the role of private operators and investors in transport infrastructure worldwide. The search for sustained improvement in efficiency is probably secondary to the need to find additional financing, but it is improvement in services that is at the core of the new role of the government in transport. Governments must now become fair economic regulators of many of the privately operated transport services and infrastructures. This book examines the major challenges that governments are likely to face in taking on their new role in transport.

Author : W. Ascher,C. Krupp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230107670

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Physical Infrastructure Development by W. Ascher,C. Krupp Pdf

This book addresses the key challenges of balancing economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection in the development of major physical infrastructure, ranging from transport to energy.

Author : Shahid Javed Burki,Guillermo E. Perry,Florence Eid
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821347098

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Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean by Shahid Javed Burki,Guillermo E. Perry,Florence Eid Pdf

The fifth ABCD-LAC focuses on decentralisation and the need to bring governments closer to the people in a rapidly changing global economic environment.

Author : Rolf W. Künneke,John Groenewegen,Jean-François Auger
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849802178

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The Governance of Network Industries by Rolf W. Künneke,John Groenewegen,Jean-François Auger Pdf

This book addresses critical issues in the governance of network industries in terms of institutional design, technology and policy. Infrastructures are subject to substantial readjustments of governance structures, often labeled as liberalization, privatization or reregulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and water. This volume highlights and illustrates some of the major challenges for readjusting the governance of network industries from an economic, institutional, political and technological perspective. The three parts of the book address the institutional design of infrastructures, the role of technology in different sectors, and actor behavior. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this book will appeal to economists and political scientists with an interest in the management of network industries. It will also be of great value to policy-makers and regulators in the field.

Author : Gabriel Joseph Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Roads
ISBN : NWU:35556031408297

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A Self-financing Road System by Gabriel Joseph Roth Pdf

Author : Giorgio Ragazzi,Werner Rothengatter
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0080460690

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Procurement and Financing of Motorways in Europe by Giorgio Ragazzi,Werner Rothengatter Pdf

This volume raises many challenging and controversial issues surrounding motorway procurement and finance in Europe. A somewhat surprising outcome is that a general appraisal bias can be identified in the following sense: Experts from countries which have introduced concession schemes for managing and financing of their motorways are very critical of these schemes, stressing their shortcomings and caveats. Some even conclude that public management under a regime of welfare maximisation would be desirable as a sustainable option. Experts from countries which have been sticking to public procurement and tax finance of motorways strongly attack the inefficiency of public planning regimes and the general tendency to allocate the revenues from special transport related taxes to the public budget, eventually spending them on other purposes rather than transport. A typical feature of the latter regime seems to be the chronic lack of funds for infrastructure investment. Although a single ideal country concept for motorway procurement and finance obviously cannot be identified, every paper gives some insights into possible future improvements. Therefore, beyond the rich documentation of national solutions it is the perspective on workable future concepts which makes the book a valuable guide through the jungle of manifold options for public/private partnerships. This book is a selection of papers presented to the international conference "Highways: Costs and Regulation in Europe", held in Bergamo on the 26th - 27th of November 2004. The Conference was organised by the University of Bergamo, and sponsored by the European Investment Bank.