Highway Management

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The project would support the Government's infrastructure-related policy reforms to improve the quality and timeliness of road works and ongoing measures to develop a sustainable institutional capability to manage the network. The main objective is to improve the quality of the arterial highway network, thereby reducing transport costs and increasing the country's economic competitiveness. The following components would be implemented under the project over a seven-year period: a) technical assistance for the development and implementation of a management system for annual and multiyear programming and budgeting of road and bridge works; b) civil works subprojects to upgrade, rehabilitate, strengthen or resurface some 1,400 km of deteriorated or damaged arterial highways and substandard bridges; and c) consulting services to assist the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to coordinate project activites; improve pavement design and construction quality; initiate remedial measures at high-accident locations through a road-safety program; and to develop and implement a human resources planning and training program.