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Technical Reports Governance of road authorities

This page lists technical reports of PIARC in the field of Governance of road authorities. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Development of tools for Performance Measurement

    This report constitutes the synthesis of the work carried out by the C15 PIARC Committee on the theme: "Development of Performance Measuring Tools". It aims at showing the principal performance indicators used in the PIARC countries and the use which can be made of them in order to improve the efficiency of road authorities. The report is based on an OECD study on "Performance Indicators for the Road Sector" and on a detailed survey of the C15 member states.

  • Quality systems and improved performance

    The initial discussions of working group of the PIARC Technical Committee on Performance of Road Administrations (C15) on quality systems indicated that they were being used by road administrations to improve management at both the organisational and project level. The working group developed a conceptual framework to show the relationship between organisation-wide quality systems and project level quality systems. The development of this conceptual model was done in cooperation with the PIARC [...]

  • Restructuring of the Road Sector

    The aim of this report is to answer the question 'who is responsible for what' in dealing with road infrastructure and road transport issues concentrating strictly on organizational rather than financial issues even if it is often difficult to separate one from the other. The information contained in this report was collected from member countries using a questionnaire on: administration levels and road network; systems for financing; responsibilities and legislative functions of the various [...]

  • Internal Performance Improvement of Road Administrations

    This report sets out a framework for international collaboration in relation to performance improvement of Road Administrations. It develops the background for a dossier of best practice summaries linked to characteristics of country situations so that it will be practicable for the information to be shared and followed up by PIARC member countries, as well as other Road Administrations worldwide. Other studies have identified that, for many Road Administrations, opportunities exist for performance [...]

  • Procurement of Works, Goods and Services by Road Administrations

    This report sets out a framework for international collaboration on improving procurement of works, goods and services by Road Administrations. It develops the background for a dossier of best practice summaries linked to road network and organizational characteristics so that the information can be related to particular country situations. For the purpose of determining the relevance of best practice between countries, Road Administrations are categorized into five phases of reform. Similarly, [...]