The topic of this policy paper – how to develop contractual methods to secure the full usable-life of roads – is of critical economic and fiscal importance to all countries, but especially so for countries with limited public budgets for road rehabilitation and maintenance. In most developing and merging market economies (EMDEs), which include the EBRD’s client countries, roads require rehabilitation, or indeed even reconstruction, many years before the date one would have expected according to their original year of construction.

The Government of Senegal awarded SENAC S.A. the concession to design, build, finance and operate the expansion of the existing Dakar toll road. This expansion will connect central Dakar with the new international airport as well as to other important economic zones of the country, spurring economic growth, employment and new opportunities that contribute to poverty reduction by facilitating transport between key infrastructure and outlying areas with the capital city. A €76 million debt financing package supported SENAC.

This guide has been developed to provide technical officials in developing country governments, their advisors, and other interested stakeholders, with an understanding of the potential traffic risk in highway PPP projects. This  guide sets out the sources of traffic risk, how it affects the viability of projects, and actions that governments can take to maximize project success.

Key features of the Gomati Chauraha-Udaipur Project Toll Road Concession Agreement:

Key features of the Project Agreement:

• Land acquisitions and approvals – the State assumes primary responsibility for (1) making the land needed for the project available to Transurban (see clauses 5 and 6) and obtaining the key planning approvals required for the project (clause 8).

OECD October 2012 (English and Arabic).

The tools are sequenced according to the four major phases of a road infrastructure project implementation: planning, design, pre-construction and construction and maintenance.

Published by the Department of Public Works and Highways of the Philippines, 2011.

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Project Agreement of 24 February 2006 between the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority ("TransLink") and the Golden Crossing General Partnership ("DBFO Contractor") and all other project documents regarding the design, build, financing, operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of the Golden Ears Bridge and the associated road network. 

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