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2.2 Accessibility and Mobility in Rural Areas

Rural areas provide goods, industries, and workforce for all communities, and roads are the most important way to exchange goods and services. Technical Committee 2.2 "Accessibility and Mobility in Rural Areas" focuses on accessibility in rural areas and on mobility needs in coordination with Technical Committee 2.1. Road networks in rural areas are very extensive compared to the low density of population, and as a result it is difficult to finance the construction and the maintenance of those networks and the safety conditions are generally poor. Therefore, this Technical Committee also focuses on improving road safety and technical solutions for paved and unpaved roads in rural areas. (extract from the Strategic Plan)

Issues

  • 2.2.1 Accessibility and mobility in rural areas
  • 2.2.2 Improving road safety in rural areas
  • 2.2.3 Technical solutions for unpaved roads

Chair and Secretariat

  • Chair: Souleman OUSSIMAN (Burkina Faso)
  • English-speaking Secretary:
  • French-speaking Secretary: Imen MAKHLOUF (Tunisia)
  • Spanish-speaking Secretary: Mariano BARONE (Argentina)

Interview with Cheick Oumar Diallo

Technical Committee 2.2 "Accessibility and Mobility in Rural Areas" Chair (at the time of the kick-off meetings)

With more than 26 years of expertise in the field of civil construction and roads, Cheick Oumar Diallo (Mali), engineer and technical advisor to the Malian Ministry of Equipment, has a long history of cooperation with the Association. He was a member of PIARC's technical committees "Economic aspects of road networks and social development" for the 2008-2011 cycle, "Earthworks and unpaved roads" for the 2012-2015 cycle and of the study group "Road design and infrastructure for innovative transport solutions" for the 2016-2019 cycle. He has been involved in the Association's governing bodies as a member of the Executive Committee since 2012, a member of the Council since 2015 and Vice-President of the Association since 2017. Finally, since June 2020, he has held the position of Secretary for the National Committee of Mali. Cheick Oumar has been appointed Chairman of the "Accessibility and Mobility in Rural Areas" Committee for the 2020-2023 cycle.

Interviewed during the meetings to launch this cycle in January 2020 in Marne-la-Vallée (France), Cheick Oumar explains the objectives of the committee 2.2 "Accessibility and mobility in rural areas".

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