In 1988 the Bank published a policy paper on the subject of road maintenance, that drew attention to the alarming magnitude of the problem in developing countries, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, and recommended...
This Note compares the development of highway and railway infrastructure in India and China during 1992 and 2002. It examines key strategies pursued by the countries including China's highway financing...
This study is focused on delineating the nature and future transport system which best serves Guangdong's economic requirements and on identifying some of the measures needed to achieve such a system...
The Highway Design and Maintenance Standards Model (HDM-III), issued in 1987, was developed by the World Bank to meet the needs of the highway community, particularly in developing countries, for evaluating...
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, developing countries have lost precious infrastructure worth billions of dollars through the deterioration of their roads. Large road networks, built at great expense...
Entre las décadas de 1960 y 1980, los países en desarrollo perdieron una preciosa infraestructura que valía miles de millones de dólares por el deterioro de sus carreteras. Las extensas redes viales, construidas...
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, developing countries have lost precious infrastructure worth billions of dollars through the deterioration of their roads. Large road networks, built at great expense...
This book describes the Highway Design and Maintenance Standards model (HDM-III) and its constituent components and provides a comprehensive discussion of the submodels, their interaction, and the operational...
This book describes the Highway Design and Maintenance Standards model (HDM-III) and its constituent components and provides a comprehensive discussion of the submodels, their interaction, and the operational...
In this issue: Feature Article: transport research in the World Bank, by Clell G. Harral. Completed research: Short-run and long-run influences on income distribution. Growth, employment, and the size...
In seeking a method for selecting highway projects under budget constraints the following requirements should be fulfilled: 1) the method should be relatively simple and practical; 2) it should have a...
A transfer model has been designed to simulate intermodal transfer operations. Model inputs include traffic description and technical characteristics of each facility; outputs include performance measures...