Road Asset Management
Unpaved Roads' Roughness Estimation by Subjective Evaluation
September 30, 1999
Road Asset Management
Paving of Unpaved Roads Economically-Justified Paving Costs
September 30, 1999
Rural Access & Mobility
The Rural Travel and Transport Program (RTTP)
This presentation provides an overview the Rural Travel and Transport Program (RTTP), which supports the development of national rural transport policies and strategies to: improve the planning,…
September 30, 1999
Road Asset Management
Improving Management and Financing of Roads in Central African States -- Review of the Road Sector in Member Countries of the Customs and Economic Union of Central African States (UDEAC)
The note is based on a review of the road sector within the member countries of the Customs and Economic Union of Central African States (UDEAC), and describes the road network, indicating conditions…
September 30, 1999
Road Asset Management
Roads Economic Decision Model (RED) for Economic Evaluation of Low Volume Roads
This note presents a consumer surplus model to help evaluate investments in roads with low traffic volumes (between 50 and 200 vehicles per day) which are so prevalent in Africa. The model is…
April 01, 1999
Programmatic
SSATP Progress Report 1998
During the 1998 reporting period, emphasis in the work of SSATP continued to move towards policy reform and implementation strategy work at the country level. A core of the approach of the program is…
February 28, 1999
Road Safety Observatory
Minimum Country-level Crash Data
Ground work and several meetings led to the identification of several crash-related variables that all countries should aim to collect. A smaller selection out of these variables will be shared…
November 01, 1998
Road Asset Management
Road Management Initiative RMI -- Phase III -- Annual Report 1997/98
October 31, 1998
Rural Access & Mobility
Road Management Initiative, Rural Travel and Transport Program, Thirteenth Coordinating Committee Meeting,November 9-13, 1998, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
The Thirteenth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee for the Road Management Initiative (RMI) and the Rural Travel and Transport Program (RTTP) of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (…
October 31, 1998
Regional Integration
The Abidjan-Ouagadougo Railway Concession
Since the 1980s, most Sub-Saharan African railways have been experiencing a severe crisis: declining traffic and revenue, lack of market orientation and poor service, continued operation of high-loss…
June 01, 1998
Rural Access & Mobility
Options for Managing and Financing Rural Transport Infrastructure
Ineffective rural transport services are a major obstacle to economic and social development in Sub Saharan Africa. Alleviating poverty requires improved access to social and economic facilities. And…
May 31, 1998
Programmatic
SSATP Progress Report 1997
The present progress report provides an update on the status of the Program, and captures the experience in running the Program since the restructuring of the Africa Region of the World Bank in mid-…
April 01, 1998
Rural Access & Mobility
The Provision of Rural Transport Services
The argument presented in this report is that the relationships between improved rural road infrastructure and the provision of complementary vehicle services have not been fully understood resulting…
March 31, 1998
Road Safety
Road Safety in Africa: Appraisal of Road Safety Initiatives in Five African Countries
Upon the request of the World Bank, Norway's Institute of Transport Economics appraised the road safety situation and road safety work in five African countries: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania…
February 01, 1998
Road Asset Management
Role of the RMI in Sector Reform In Sub-Saharan Africa
January 31, 1998
Regional Integration
Multiple Ports of Call versus Hub-and-Spoke: Containerized Maritime Trade between West Africa and Europe
Although traffic volumes in many Sub-Saharan countries have increased significantly during this decade, containerized maritime trade in West Africa is still in its infancy. Intermodalism, which is…
January 01, 1998
Road Safety
The Economics of Traffic Safety
This note is based on a paper titled Traffic Safety as an Economic Issue of Developing and Industrialized Countries by Jorgen Karthum Hansen, which was presented at the World Bank/USFHWA/3M sponsored…
December 01, 1997
Railways
Concessioning of Rail Transport -- A New Approach to Restructuring Railways in Sub-Saharan Africa
As with many railways in developing and developed, countries, Sub-Saharan Africa's railways are now at a crossroads. Facing increased competition, the African railways will play an important role in…
July 01, 1997
