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Rural Transport, Key Element of the Development

In May 2002, the Kingdom of Cambodia hosted several conferences that addressed issues of rural roads

Among these events, the PIARC International Seminar organised by Technical Committee C3 (Technological Exchanges and Development) and Technical Committee C20 (Appropriate Development) held on 15-16 May on the theme : Rural Transport, Key Element of the Development.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEMINAR

TITLES

 PRESENTATIONS

 SESSION 1

 1.1

Reflection on project design. Experiences in Recent Road Projects : Some Aspects of the Process of Change. Albab Akanda, Asian Development Bank 

 

 Slides

 1.2

Oeverty and Transport. Albab Akanda, Asian Development Bank

 

 Slides

 1.3

Rural Transport Infrastructure : Key Element to Development. Dara Johnston, ILO Upstream Project

 

 Slides

 SESSION 2

 2.1

 Design and Appraisal of Rural Transport Infrastructure (Based on World Bank Paper n° 496). Dieter Schelling, World Bank 

 

 Slides

 2.2

 Ghana Feeder Road Prioritisation. John Hine, Simon Ellis and Simon Done (TRL Ltd), David Korboe, independent consultant 

 Paper

 

 2.3

 Economic and Social Justifications of Rural Transport : The Design of the Rural Access Programme, Nepal. Dilli Sitaula and Michael Green, WSPimc 

 Paper

 Slides

 2.4

 Roads and Poverty Reduction (Draft). Paper to be presented at the PIARC Conference 14-15 May, Antananarivo, Madagascar

 Paper

 

 SESSION 3 

 3.1

 Rural Road Surfacing Investigations. Robert Petts, Intech Associates

 

 Slides

 3.2

 Sustainable Road Maintenance in Viet Nam. Roger Weatherell, WSPimc and Tran Tien Son, MoT Vietnam

 Paper

 Slides

SESSION 4

 4.1

 Finance, Organisation and Participation - Country specific Solutions for Rural Road Networks- The GTZ Experience. Gerhard P. Metschies, GTZ

 Paper

 

 4.2

 How to sell the message "Road maintenance is necessary" to decisions makers. Kjell Levik, Norwegian Public Roads Administration

 Paper

 

 4.3

 Study on the Reorganisation of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Cambodia. Michel Dorval

 Paper

 Slides

 4.4

 Road Maintenance Message. Norwegian Public Roads Administration

 

 Slides

 SESSION 5 : RURAL TRANSPORT OPERATIONS AND SERVICES

 5.1

 Complementing infrastructure : Enhancing rural mobility through motorised and non-motorised transport. Paul Starkey, Animal Traction Development

ATENTION : Presentation available as HTLM-file on CD : SEMINARSCD/PIARC/Session%205/Enhancing%20Rural%20Mobility%20Presentation.htm

 Paper

 

 5.2

 IMTs and Rural Transport Services- ITDG experience. Ranjith de Silva, Intermediate Technology Development Group, ITDG

 Paper

Slides

 5.3

  Investing in intermediate means of transport in Madagascar. Paul Starkey, Animal Traction Development and Luc Rasamoela, Ministry of Public Works, Madagascar

 Paper

 Slides

 5.4

 Rural Inland Water Transport - A case study in May Chreiy, Puok District. Doekle Wielinga, ILO Upstream Project

 

 Slides

 5.5

 Transport Policy Reform and Poverty Reduction in Kenya : Bridging Rural-Urban Transport gaps through IMT. Silvester Okumu Kasuku, Ministry of Lands and Settlement, Kenya

 Paper

Slides

 5.6  Intermediate Means of Transport (IMT) : Motorized and non-motorized, including Inland Water Transport. H.E. Sous Kong, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Rural Development, Kingdom of Cambodia. Note-taker : Leslie Wright

 Paper

 

 SESSION 6

 6.1

Policy toolkit for increase rural mobility. Simon Done, TRL Ltd 

 

 Slides

 SESSION 7

 
 7.1

 Quebec Road Network Management Training Center. Daniel Hargreaves, Quebec Ministry of Transport

 English Slides

 French Slides

 7.2  Rural Transport Knowledge Base. Dieter Schelling, World Bank  

 Slides

 SESSION 8 : TCC WORKSHOP

 

8.1

 PIARC workshop on the current state of Technology Transfer Center (TTC) development. Different Speakers

 

 Slides

 8.2

 PIARC TTC meeting 17-18 May 2002. Themes for Working Group Sessions. Roger Weatherell, WSPimc and Tran Tien Son, MoT Vietnam

 Paper