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General Road Management Issues 3:2:a Rural Transport Knowledge Base 1 Rural Travel and Transport Program 2001 GENERAL ROAD MANAGEMENT ISSUES: MANAGING ROADS
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@MISC{Business_generalroad,
author = {Like A Business and Not Like and A Bureaucracy and I. G. Heggie and World Bank},
title = {General Road Management Issues 3:2:a Rural Transport Knowledge Base 1 Rural Travel and Transport Program 2001 GENERAL ROAD MANAGEMENT ISSUES: MANAGING ROADS},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
A growing number of countries have started to “bring roads into the market place, put them on a fee-for-service basis and manage them like a business. ” The fee-for-service concept differs from user-pay in a number of important respects. The key differences are that: (i) only road user charges go into the road fund (i.e., there are no earmarked taxes); (ii) the fund is managed by a representative board with half or more members representing road users and the business community; (iii) members are nominated by the constituencies they represent and there is an independent chairperson; (iv) financing arrangements are designed to ensure that money is not diverted from other sectors; (v) funds are managed pro-actively by a small secretariat; (vi) there are published financial regulations governing the way funds are managed; (vii) charges are adjusted regularly to meet agreed expenditure targets; and (viii) there are regular technical and financial audits. Key issues! Most commercially managed road funds are managed through a separate road fund administration, funds are channeled to all roads (sometimes even to unclassified roads) and they are introduced as part of a wider agenda to commercialize road management. Some of these road funds have been set up as road public utilities under a board with powers to set their own tariffs. Key topic areas! Road commercialization! Commercially managed road funds! Technical and policy elements! Operational questions
Keyphrases
general road management issue road fund rural travel rural transport knowledge base managing road transport program fee-for-service basis road management important respect fee-for-service concept differs wider agenda road user charge market place representative board business community way fund small secretariat road user road public utility unclassified road key issue policy element operational question separate road fund administration financial regulation earmarked tax agreed expenditure target financial audit key difference financing arrangement independent chairperson
