Brazil - Bahia Integrated State Highway Management Project
Easton, Peter
The project of Bahia Integrated State Highway Management for Brazil will increase effective use of the state road infrastructure, with an aim at stimulating higher economic growth. The project consists of the following components: Component 1: The state's road network management strategy focuses on improving transport conditions on the state's main transport corridors and on their feeders. Component 2: Will support: (a) government efforts in optimizing the role of transport services to help deconcentrate economic growth and provision of basic services, through determination of existing logistics bottlenecks and level/localization of repressed economic growth due to inadequate transport costs, integration of transport dimension in planning for education and health interventions, identification of public actions required to improve logistics' efficiency in the state, and definition of incentives to private sector to invest in logistics; (b) the consolidation and gradual implementation of the state's logistics program (PELTBAHIA), especially with respect to the monitoring of the program's impact in logistics' performance, strengthening of the state's regulatory framework, and capacity to model public-private partnerships; (c) the strengthening of the state road administration, with respect to the consolidation of its planning system, capacity improvements with respect to environmental/social impacts mitigation and works supervision, and modernization of information systems; (d) improvements in the road administration's technical capacity, to support municipalities in maintaining their road networks and in improving transport services to the poor, and (e) the preparation of works' engineering designs and supervision, as well as support to the road administration in coordinating the project's implementation.
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