2.9 Road investment for sustainability of contractors
Many countries have created roads funds and roads agencies to improve the management of their road infrastructure. However, the resulting investment strategies have often failed to ensure either the sustainability of the network, or the development of the domestic construction industry. The paper considers these issues for Suriname, Tanzania and Zambia. It finds that giving appropriate priority to road maintenance at the local level serves to enhance development of both the country's road infrastructure assets and local construction companies.
The paper presents a simple spreadsheet model that can be used to assess the consequences of a country's road investment strategy in terms of such factors as maintenance, backlog and projected change in road asset value. The paper also looks at the outcomes of strategies chosen in this way on the development of the domestic construction industry and provides a range of options that can be used to develop the local companies.
Issuing body: IT Transport Ltd
Type: Report
Title: Road investment for sustainability of network and domestic contractors
File type: PDF
File size: 596.15 KB
Year of publication: 2007
Number of pages: 14
