Browsing by Author "Bennett, Christopher R."

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    From Nothing to Something… Creating a Road Maintenance Culture in Tonga
    Schlotjes, Megan R.; Bennett, Christopher R.; Faiz, Asif; Visser, Alex; Greenwood, Ian (2015-06-04)
    The Kingdom of Tonga is a small island country in the South Pacific, located some 1,500 km north-east of New Zealand. The road network, approximately 870 km consisting of about 640 km of public roads, is almost exclusively low volume roads, with only a few urban roads in the capital Nuku'alofa carrying over 1,000 vehicles per day. Over 90 % of the public roads are sealed. Due to a variety of structural and fiscal issues, road maintenance - both routine and periodic - effectively halted in the late 2000's. The Ministry of Works, nominally responsible for the maintenance of the road network, did not have the resources or equipment to maintain the roads so for about a decade there was effectively no routine or periodic maintenance. In 2010 the Government of Australia provided funds to Tonga through the World Bank with the objective of establishing a routine and periodic maintenance program, with a secondary objective of stimulating the economy by creating employment through road works. This paper describes the success story of how Tonga went from having no regular road maintenance, indeed, not even contractors to undertake road maintenance, to having a competitive road maintenance industry undertaking routine and periodic maintenance across the country.
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    Future Development Needs In Asset Management – The World Bank’s Perspective
    Bennett, Christopher R.; Hede, Jens C. H. (2015-06-04)
    The World Bank is playing, and has historically played, an important role in development in the road asset management sector. We are involved in supporting our partner countries in most of the relevant activities normally captioned under asset management; from data collection; data analysis; maintenance delivery as well as the reforms needed to make it all work. The Bank’s engagement in the sector can among others been seen from our role in developing HDM, a cornerstone in many asset management systems (especially in the developing world) as well as in the successful adoption of performance based maintenance in many countries.