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Publications Routes/Roads policies

This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of road policies. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • 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.

  • Risk profiles of different privatisation and PPP models in the road sector

    Description and comparison of the risk profiles of the different privatisation and PPP models applied in the road sector with a special focus on the traffic risk in PPP-models in this sector for better understanding, selection and structuring of the models according to the individual political, institutional, economical and legal requirements.

  • The development of road management system in Latvia after the regaining of independence

    Latvia is one of the three Baltic states, which gained independence in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed. Latvia lies by the Baltic Sea and it borders on Estonia in the North, Russian and Byelorussian in the East, and Lithuania in the South. The lenght of its sea borber is 494 kilometres, and the length of the land border is 1 196 kilometres. Latvia has a wide network of transport lines which insures not only the inland but also the transit transport. The lenght of the tranpost lines in the [...]