From Nothing to Something… Creating a Road Maintenance Culture in Tonga

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dc.contributorVirginia Tech Transportation Instituteen
dc.contributorWorld Banken
dc.contributor.authorSchlotjes, Megan R.en
dc.contributor.authorBennett, Christopher R.en
dc.contributor.authorFaiz, Asifen
dc.contributor.authorVisser, Alexen
dc.contributor.authorGreenwood, Ianen
dc.date.accessed2015-07-07en
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-11T18:46:33Zen
dc.date.available2015-08-11T18:46:33Zen
dc.date.issued2015-06-04en
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
dc.description.notesPresented during Session 23: Pavement Maintenance Management and Applied PMS, moderated by Rada Gonzalo, at the 9th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets (ICMPA9) in Alexandria, VA.en
dc.description.notesIncludes conference paper and PowerPoint slides.en
dc.description.sponsorshipGovernment of Tongaen
dc.description.sponsorshipTonga Transport Sector Consolidation Projecten
dc.format.extent13 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSchlotjes, M. R., Bennett, C. R., Faiz, A., Visser, A., & Greenwood, I. (2015, June). From nothing to something - creating a road maintenance culture in Tonga. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets, Alexandria, VA. Presentation retrieved from www.apps.vtti.vt.edu/PDFs/icmpa9/session23/Schlotjes.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/56434en
dc.identifier.urlwww.apps.vtti.vt.edu/PDFs/icmpa9/session23/Schlotjes.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.ispartof9th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assetsen
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dc.titleFrom Nothing to Something… Creating a Road Maintenance Culture in Tongaen
dc.typePresentationen
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