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Publications Routes/Roads Financing of Road System

This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of Financing of Road System. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • The situation in Burkina-Faso: the transport and tourism sectorial plan

    Status report following 15 years of institutional reforms within Sub-Saharan road administrations Beginning in the 1970's, most African countries were experiencing economic and financial hardship faced with extremely tight cash flow situations. These difficulties led to a slowing of capital investment flows into the transportation sector and a reduction in annual budgets allocated to the road network. The magnitude of these difficulties incited reflection on the types of structural adjustments [...]

  • The situation in Benin

    Status report following 15 years of institutional reforms within Sub-Saharan road administrations Beginning in the 1970's, most African countries were experiencing economic and financial hardship faced with extremely tight cash flow situations. These difficulties led to a slowing of capital investment flows into the transportation sector and a reduction in annual budgets allocated to the road network. The magnitude of these difficulties incited reflection on the types of structural adjustments [...]

  • Status report following 15 years of institutional reforms within sub-saharan road administrations

    Beginning in the 1970's, most African countries were experiencing economic and financial hardship faced with extremely tight cash flow situations. These difficulties led to a slowing of capital investment flows into the transportation sector and a reduction in annual budgets allocated to the road network. The magnitude of these difficulties incited reflection on the types of structural adjustments to be implemented within road administrations of Africa's sub-Saharan countries as of the 1990's, with [...]

  • Public and private investment in the road network in the United States

    Description of the American strategy for the construction of roads.

  • A contractor's perspective on the impact of new contract forms

    Based on the example of the Private Finance Initiative ("PFI") contract awarded for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the street network in the city of Portsmouth, assessment herein the influence of PPP (public-private partnerships) and other innovative contracting practices on road industry organization and interactions with other parties to the construction process.