ROAD MAINTENANCE & REHAB 3

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The Third Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Project for Poland will continue improving the effectiveness of Poland's national road rehabilitation and maintenance systems, with emphasis on quality, efficiency, financial viability, safety, and road user satisfaction. Project components: (a) is based on General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA's) budget for 2006 approved by the Parliament in February 2006; (b) The Bank's financing of this component will allow completing the implementation of GDDKiA's Management Information system; (c) The road maintenance and rehabilitation III (RM&R) operation will support road safety campaigns based on themes such as alcohol and driving, speeding, safety of children and pedestrian safety, as well as TA to the Secretariat of the NRSC; (d) will support: (i) an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) study aimed at establishing national standards for gathering and transferring information; (ii) technical assistance to help better and faster absorption of the EU regional funds for the current (2004-2006) and next (2007-2013) transport operational programs in Poland; the output of such assistance would be a Handbook for the use by Ministry of Transport and Coordination staff as well as for project beneficiaries, including guidelines on project selection, preparation, and implementation; (iii) assistance to improve roads technical standards and traffic management; and (iv) audit for the RMR projects.