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Fair Competition in Transport:Why Good Roads Matter

International Road Federation

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An Asset for Europes Economies

Network Quality Affects Trade

A Converging Agenda

Why Good Roads Matter:

Length of network 5.5 million km

Estimated asset value: 8.000 bn (replacement value source: ERF)

0.8% of GDP invested in road infrastructure (1.5% in 1970s)

Europes Roads

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Europes Roads

Roads: 8.000 billion

EU GDP: 12.700 billion

Functional qualities decrease under the combined effects of weather and traffic

Theoretical life expectancy of road elements:

upper layer/ wearing course: 8 - 26 year

bearing layer/ base course: 55 - 60 years

bridge: 50 - 110 years

tunnel: 90 - 130 years

An Ageing Network

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Time scale of infrastructure vs political calendars:

Deferred maintenance investments seen by some governments as a way to present balanced books

Effects on level of service (congestion, safety, environmental, etc.) typically appear a few years later, with higher costs for users and road agencies

The need for costly maintenance increases over time

An Ageing Network

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Impact of backlog

For road agencies

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Impact of backlog

and for road users

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Impact of backlog

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An Asset for Europes Economies

Network Quality Affects Trade

A Converging Agenda

Why Good Roads Matter:

Source: Global Enabling Trade Report, 2014

Network Quality vs. Trade

Transport

Infrastructure Index

Transport

Services Index

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Ambitious but feasible road upgrade in ECA could increase trade by 50% over baseline, exceeding the expected gains from tariff reductions or trade facilitation programs of comparable scope

Total intraregional trade could be increased by 30% by upgrading roads in just three countries - Albania, Hungary and Romania.

Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4104

Network Quality vs. Trade

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Evaluating Turkeys road upgrade program:

Distance elasticity of trade flows between low-quality and high-quality roads lies between 0.1 and 0.27

Program generated a 10-year discounted stream of additional export revenues that amount to 9-19% of the value of the investment.

Network Quality vs. Trade

Source: A. Kerem Cosar, Banu Demir, July 2014

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An Asset for Europes Economies

Network Quality Affects Trade

A Converging Agenda

Why Good Roads Matter:

Communication is Key

Time for a societal discussion on roads & road transport

Are we communicating with all these publics?

Source: E-Motion, inspiring action for better roads in Europe

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Communication is Key

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Communication is Key

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