Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Successful Road Management: Learning from 2 World Bank Projects

Participants from 9 Countries Discuss Transport Infrastructure

Road agencies around the world use road management systems to manage their transport infrastructure effectively. With such a broad base of interested parties, a videoconference-based distance seminar was organized by the World Bank’s East Asia Transport and Energy Unit & the GDLN on April 24, 2007 to discuss findings from two international projects recently undertaken by the Bank .

Two sessions – “Success Factors for Road Management Systems”, and “Data Collection Technologies for Road Management”- were conducted, providing an opportunity for participants to learn how to ensure that the implementation of a computerized road management system will be effective and sustainable, as well as how to make appropriate decisions with regard to collecting data for road management systems.

Participants from governments, development agencies, technical agencies, academia and consultants interested in infrastructure management connected from 9 sites —Washington D.C., Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and the TDLC. Both sessions were webcast live, allowing viewers to send in questions as well.

Mr. William D.O. Paterson (Lead Infrastructure Specialist / Vietnam Transport Sector Coordinator East Asia and Pacific Region Transport and Energy Unit, The World Bank) began the first session speaking from Bank headquarters in Washington with a presentation on “Success Factors for computerized Road Management Systems”. 

From the TDLC, Mr. Christopher R. Bennett (Senior Transport Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Region Transport and Energy Unit, The World Bank) spoke about “Technology for Road Management Systems”, and Professor Koji Tsunokawa (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University) described “Business processes and Data Collection for Road Management systems”.

For the second session, the three specialists continued with presentations on “Principles of Data Collection” (Paterson), “Location Referencing and Pavement Data Collection"(Tsunokawa) and “Pavement Data Collection Technologies” (Bennett).

For more information, please visit the World Bank website “Roads & Highways” seminar page.

excerpt traffic cone photo by Pedro Vera