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Financial Reform of Road Maintenance
- Road Maintenance Funds
- Performance Specified Road Maintenance Contracts
- Reform of Road Agencies
- Others
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Special Feature: IRF in Latin America, Part
1, Part 2, World
Highways, April 2002.
Finance,
Organization and Participation - Country-specific Solutions for Rural Road
Networks, Gerhard P. Metschies, Siem Rap, May 15, 2002.
International
Fuel Prices 2005, 4th Edition, 172 Countries, Dr. Gerhard Metschies
NEW
International
Fuel
Prices 2003,
(English Version) with comparative tables for
165 countries and a special section on Fuel Taxation and State Financing, Third Edition, Dr. Gerhard P. Metschies,
May 2003.
PDF-file
with 3,4 MB file size.
Fuel Prices in ASEAN Countries, GTZ, 2005
Need for New Approaches to
Road Financing, Jukka Isotalo. Paper prepared for the 14th IRF World
Congress in Paris, 2001.
Adam Smith and the
Principles of a Sustainable Road Policy, Historical Roots of the Road
Management Initiative (RMI), edited by Gerhard Metschies,
Paper prepared for the14th IRF World
Congress in Paris, 2001.
The
Namibian Road Sector Reform, Ministry of Works, Transport and
Communications, Windhoek, May 2000.
A New
Approach to the Management and Financing of Roads - A Vision for the Future,
Nils a. Bruzelius, Windhoek, February 28, 2000.
Reform
of Financing and Management of Road Maintenance - A New Generation of Road
Funds in Latin America , Dr. Gunter Zietlow, Alberto Bull,
XXIst World Road Congress, 3-9 October 1999, Kuala Lumpur.
ESCAP/World
Bank Seminar on Management and Financing of Road Maintenance, 17
to 20 September 1996, Recommendations/Conclusions.
Roads
- A new Approach for Road Network Management and Conservation,
Andreas
Schliessler and Alberto Bull, United Nations Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago de Chile, June 1993.
Road
Deterioration in Developing Countries: Causes and Remedies, Policy
Paper, The World Bank, 1988.
Road
Funds and Road Maintenance,
ADB,
July 2003.
Road
Funds Revisited: A Preliminary Appraisal of the Effectiveness of "Second
Generation" Road Funds,
Kenneth M. Gwilliam, Ajay Kumar, TWU-47, World Bank, January
2002.
Road Fund in Ethopia:
From Inception to Realization, Office of the Road Fund Administration,
February, 2001. Requires
Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software.
Review of Transfund's Project
Evaluation Benefit Parameter Values, Ian Melsom, Kate Collins.
Paper prepared for the 14th IRF World Congress in Paris, 2001. Requires
Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software.
Road Fund
Administration Act, Namibia, October 1999.
Involvement
of Road Users in the Management of Roads, Public Private Partnership -
The Zambia Roads Board Experience, Raymond A. Jhala,
Chairman, National Roads Board, Paper Presented at the Workshop on Road
Management and Finance, Jamaica, June 3 - 4, 1998.
The
National Roads Board of Zambia
, N. Gananadha, International
Workshop on Rural Infrastructure, The World Bank, Washington D.C., May
19-23, 1997.
Malawi
National Roads Authority Act of 1997
Draft
Law and Regulations of the Jordanian Road Fund
The
Highway Trust Fund, Public Roads, Special Edition 1996, U.S. Department
of Transportation.
Note: For more information on Road Maintenance
Funds in Latin America see DOCUMENTOS.
State
Highway Maintenance Contract Proforma Manual,
SM032, Transit New Zealand, March 2006.
Performance-based
Contracting for Preservation and Improvement of Road Assets, Natalya
Stankevich, Navaid Qureshi and Cesar Queiroz, Transport Note No.
TN-27, The World Bank, September 2005.
Procurement of Works and Services under Output- and Performance-based Road Contracts and Sample Specifications,
The World Bank, Washington, D.C., September 2005
Cutting
Costs and Improving Quality through Performance-Based Road Management and
Maintenance Contracts - The Latin American and OECD Experiences ,
Dr. Gunter Zietlow,
University
of Birmingham (UK), Senior Road Executives Programme, Restructuring
Road Management, Birmingham,
24-29 April 2005
Using
Micro-Enterprises to Create Local Contracting Capacity - The Latin
American Experience, Dr. Gunter Zietlow, University
of Birmingham (UK), Senior Road Executives Programme, Restructuring
Road Management, Birmingham,
24-29 April 2005.
Output-based
aid in Chad, Tim Hartwig, Yogita Mumssen, and Andreas
Schliessler,
OBApproaches, World Bank, April 2005.
Options
for Implementing Performance-based Contracts,
Cesar Queiroz, Lead Highway Engineer, World Bank, Transport
Forum 2005,
World Bank, 2005.
Assessment
of PMMR Implementation Potential in Africa,
Graham Williams, Highway Engineer, BCEOM ,
Transport Forum 2005,
World Bank, 2005.
PMMR
in the USA: Virginia Case Study,
Kent Lande, P.E., Chief Engineer and Vice President, Louis
Berger, Transport
Forum 2005,
World Bank, 2005.
Development
of Performance Warranties for Performance Based Road Maintenance Contracts,
Mehmet Egemen Ozbek, Blackburg, Virginia, April 23, 2004.
Maintaining
Roads. Experience with Output-based Contracts in Argentina,
Gerard Liautaud, World Bank, 2004
Performance
Measures for Performance Based Maintenance Contracts,
Josias Zietsman ,Texas Transportation Institute.
Toolkit
for Public Private Partnerships in Highways,
World Bank.
Buenos-Aires
Highway Network Emergency Calls and User Claims
Outsourcing
of State DOT Capital Program Delivery Functions,
Transport Research Board, Vienna , Virginia, November 2003.
Pavement
Deterioration Modelling in Long Term Performance based Contracts: How far Does
it Mitigate the Risk for Client and Contractor?,
Chris Parkman, John Hallett, Theuns Henning and Mike Tapper, 2003.
Contracting for Road and Highway
Maintenance, [PDF], Geoffrey F. Segal, Adrian T. Moore, and
Samuel McCarthy. March 2003.
The
hybrid performance based management strategy. [PDF], Gilbertson,
Travis,
REAAA/ARRB International Conference (2003: Cairns, Queensland, Australia)
Contracting
for Road and Highway Maintenance,
[PDF], Geoffrey F. Segal, Adrian T. Moore, and Samuel McCarthy. March
2003.
The
hybrid performance based management strategy.
[PDF, 240KB], Gilbertson, Travis, REAAA/ARRB International Conference
(2003: Cairns, Queensland, Australia)
Innovative
Project Delivery Methods for Infrastructure,
Pekka Pakkala, International Perspective. Helsinki
2002.
International Trends In
Procurement Models for Highway Maintenance [PDF], Tony Porter,
Contracting the Future NZIHT Symposium, October 2001.
A review of
achievable efficencies and associated issues under output performance based
contracts [PDF], Ewan Hunter ; Rowan Kyle, Contracting
the Future NZIHT Symposium, October 2001.
Austroads review
of performance contracts: the potential benefits of performance contracts. [PDF],
Paul
Hardy, Contracting the Future NZIHT Symposium,
October 2001.
The Hybrid Experience [PDF],
Travis Gilbertson ; Barry Stratton ; Ross Anthony, Contracting
the Future NZIHT Symposium, October 2001.
Performance-Based
Contracting in the District of Columbia, (PPT), Luke Dipompo
; Mark Robinson, Paper presented to the 51th Annual Virginia Transportation
Conference, Lexington, VA, October 2001.
Performance
Management: Challenges and Opportunities (PPT), Dennis M.
Shea,
Paper presented to the 51th Annual Virginia Transportation
Conference, Lexington, VA, October 2001.
Performance
Contracting: The Federal Perspective (PPT), Frank Botelho,
Paper presented to the 51th Annual Virginia Transportation
Conference, Lexington, VA, October 2001.
Performance
Management in Virginia (PPT), Charles Bennett,
Paper presented to the 51th Annual Virginia Transportation
Conference, Lexington, VA, October 2001.
Imperatives in Future Road
System Management Improved Road Maintenance Productivity - The Australian
Case, Malcom Frost. Paper prepared for the 14th IRF World Congress in
Paris, 2001. Requires Adobe
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A Framework for
Assessing Asset Management Performance in Australia,
Florentina Mihai, Neville Binning, Laurie Dowling. Paper prepared for the 14th
IRF World Congress in Paris, 2001. Requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software.
A
consultant's perspective of highway network asset management practice in
England [PDF], Jason Schirnack, Transportation Research
Board Meeting, Washington, D.C. January 2001.
Best
Practices of Outsourcing Winter Maintenance Services.
VMS
Inc. 2001.
Review of
VDOT's Administration of the Interstate Asset Management Contract
, Download full report as
PDF-file (1.9 MB), December 2000. .
Road Network Asset
Management as a Business Process, Florentina Mihai, Neville Binning,
Laurie Dowling. Paper prepared for the REAAA Conference in Japan, 4 - 9
September 2000. Requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software.
Contractual
Procedures to Involve the Private Sector in Road Maintenance and
Rehabilitation,
Cesar Queiroz, 24th International Baltic Road
Conference, 2000.
Areawide
Performance-Based Rehabilitation and Maintenance contracts for Low-Volume
Roads (Seventh International Conference on Low-Volume Roads),
Mm. Guillermo
Cabana, Gérard Liautaud, Asif Faiz,
World Bank, Dirección Nacional de Vialidad (Agentina), 1999.
Asset
Preservation Plan for the District of Colombia National Highway System,
Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation and District
of Columbia Department of Public Works, Nov. 1999. Download as exe.file
(142 K) or download as PDF-File
(215 K). PDF-files can be read with Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software.
The
Quality of Road Service – Evaluation, Perception and Response Behaviour of
Road Users”,
World Road Association (PIARC), 1999.
Performance
Specified Road Maintenance Contracts - The Road to the Future,
The Latin American Perspective, Dr. Gunter J. Zietlow,
Alberto Bull, XXIst WORLD CONGRESS, KUALA LUMPUR, 3-9 OCTOBER 1999.
Performance
Led Comprehensive Agreement for Virginia Interstate Highway Asset Management
Services, USA,
Kent O.. Lande, Dan Dennis, IRF Symposium on “Financing in
Transportation Projects”, Vietnam, 1999.
Cutting
Cost and Improving Quality through Performance Specified Road Maintenance
Contracts -
Pilot experiences
in Latin America offer lessons for Africa, Dr. Gunter Zietlow, Africa
Transport, Technical Note, Road Management Initiative (RMI),
SSATP Note No. 14, July 1998, Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program
(SSATP) * UNECA and The World Bank. Download
as pdf file.
Maintenance
Concessions for National Roads: The Argentine Experience, Gustavo
Marcelo Gentili, José Enrique I. Erbetta, Dirección
Nacional de Vialidad, Argentina, October 1997. The article has been published
in ROADS No 296/IV-1997, World Road Asociatión PIARC. The article
may be downloaded
as PDF-file (88K). PDF-files can be read with Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software.
Managing
the Road Asset in Australia and New-Zealand, Gary Norwell, Geoff
Youdale, October 1997. The article has been published in ROADS
No 296/IV-1997, World Road Asociatión PIARC. The article may be
downloaded
as PDF-file (235K). PDF-files can be read with Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software.
Improving
Quality and Cutting Costs through Performance Contracts - Australian Experiance
, Malcolm Frost, General Manager, Infrastructure Maintenance
and Christine Lithgow, Manager, Contract Legal Services,
World Bank Road Management Training Seminar Washington DC, USA 17 - 18
December 1996.
Note: More articles in Spanish on road concessions
can be found under DOCUMENTOS
Managing
a Highway Network in the 20th Century Environment,
Dr. Robin Dunlop,
General Manager, Transit New Zealand. Paper
prepared for the 14th IRF World Congress in Paris, 2001.
Road
Authority Act, Namibia, October 1999.
New
Zealand Roading Reform,Dr. Robin Dunlop, General Manager,
Transit New Zealand, World Bank Presentation, Washington D.C., April 13,
1998. (Note: File is a Microsoft PowerPoint 97 presentations, download
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Roading
Agency of the Future , Dr. R. J. Dunlop, General
Manager of Transit New Zealand, 1996 International Road Federation Asia-Pacific
Regional Meeting, November 17-22, 1996 Taipei, R.O.C.
Transit
New Zealand Amendment 1995
Note: For more information on the Reform
of Road Agencies see DOCUMENTOS.
Poetry
of the Road , Tamara Broberg, Public Roads, Special Edition 1996,
U.S. Department of Transportation.