Development of road winter maintenance Lacis, Aldis
Language: English Language: French Series: ; topic I-220Publication details: XIth international winter road congress 2002, Sapporo [Japan] / XIe congres international de la viabilite hivernale 2002, Sapporo [Japon]. Paper, 2002Description: 9 sSubject(s): Bibl.nr: VTI 2002.0071Location: Abstract: The Latvian public road network is approximately 64000 kilometres long. The Latvian Road Administration is responsible for the state roads with the total length of 20318 km. The Ministry of Transport (MOT) has the overall responsibility for the road system in Latvia. The Latvian Road Administration is a non profit state-owned joint stock company and has a contract for managing the state roads, supervising municipal roads and administrating the State Road Fund with the Ministry of Transport. The role of the Road Administration is to set the policy and standards, to plan financial resources and to manage the implementation of road maintenance programs. All periodic and routine maintenance operations are contracted out. More than twenty specialised private contractors participate in pavement and bridge reconstruction and periodic maintenance tenders. Four state owned maintenance joint stock companies are the main routine works contractors. On the way to efficient road winter maintenance system the Latvian Road Administration has met a number of serious problems such as insufficient financing, lack of modern technologies, equipment and education.Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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The Latvian public road network is approximately 64000 kilometres long. The Latvian Road Administration is responsible for the state roads with the total length of 20318 km. The Ministry of Transport (MOT) has the overall responsibility for the road system in Latvia. The Latvian Road Administration is a non profit state-owned joint stock company and has a contract for managing the state roads, supervising municipal roads and administrating the State Road Fund with the Ministry of Transport. The role of the Road Administration is to set the policy and standards, to plan financial resources and to manage the implementation of road maintenance programs. All periodic and routine maintenance operations are contracted out. More than twenty specialised private contractors participate in pavement and bridge reconstruction and periodic maintenance tenders. Four state owned maintenance joint stock companies are the main routine works contractors. On the way to efficient road winter maintenance system the Latvian Road Administration has met a number of serious problems such as insufficient financing, lack of modern technologies, equipment and education.