Improving Management and Financing of Roads in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Summary Review for 47 SSA Countries
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SSATP Technical Note
November 30, 1999
Road Asset Management
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Ole Kr. Sylte
SSATP, The World Bank
Africa Transport Technical Note No. 25
This overview of the road transport sector in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, includes an analysis of current status, and developments since 1989, and examines forty seven countries in four regions: the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region, which given its large, and more advance economy compared to other countries, has been treated as a separate entity in this review; the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region; the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region; and, the Union Douaniere et Economique de l'Afrique Central (UDEAC) region. The note examines the road network in SSA, specifying that while the deteriorating conditions of a large part of the main roads is a matter of great concern, the conditions of the local rural, and urban roads may be even more alarming. This fact may, to a large extent, be explained by insufficient funding for road maintenance. Roads management is then reviewed, revealing existing, similar constraints, weak capacity, and poor service delivery. However, the dramatic change in road maintenance activities indicate a clear trend towards replacement of force account brigades, with private sector contractors. Experience shows that road boards, particularly for the management of road funds, create a useful environment to influence road maintenance funding, and accountability.
Roads & highways
Road Maintenance
Regional characteristics
Road traffic engineering
rural roads
urban planning
Funds
Capacity constraints
service delivery
Force account
Private sector participationaccess roads
automotive fuel
axle loads
costs of road accidents
diesel
driving
driving force
economic growth
Financing of Roads
fuel
fuel levies
gravel
gravel roads
income
main roads
maintenance activities
passenger
periodic maintenance
petrol
private sector
RMI
road accidents
road agencies
Road Authorities
Road Authority
Road Boards
Road Fund
Road Funds
road infrastructure
Road Maintenance
road management
ROAD NETWORK
road networks
road pavements
road rehabilitation
road safety
Road Sector
Road Traffic
Road transport
Road User
Road Users
routes
routine maintenance
service roads
traffic management
traffic safety
Transport
Transport Policy
unpaved roads
urban roads
urban roads may
User Charges
vehicle
Vehicles
