Johannesburg and other cities in South Africa are rolling out integrated rapid public transport networks as part of an overall effort to address significant urban mobility challenges and to increase the use of public transport.The initial phases of these networks used a traditional Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) trunk and feeder approach, patterned after the successful Latin American systems developed in the 2000s.
... See More + The Rea Vaya BRT in Johannesburg is South Africa’s first such system, with 43.5 km of trunk bus corridors in operation by 2016. But the results in ridership and operating cost recovery from fares were approximately one-third of initial estimates. Urban form and travel demand patterns for transport in South African cities differ greatly from those in Latin America. South Africa’s national government, with World Bank support, has been examining these differences to reassess how South African metropolises could interpret and rethink their rapid transit operations, services, and finances.
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The development objective of East West Highway Project for Kazakhstan involves the rehabilitation, upgrading and substantial new construction of long road section which traverses a variety of environments and landscapes.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts were as follows: (i) all vehicles and equipment used in construction must be up-to-date, regularly undergo maintenance and used according to recommendations of manufacturers; (ii) all plants have to work according to recommendations of the manufacturer and located at distance away from residential areas; (iii) areas of potential pollution of rivers will be designed to prevent accidental spills and runoff and protected by sediment settlement ditches; (iv) storage of topsoil and topsoil management; (v) illegal hunting near the project area will be prohibited; (vi) ensure safety of cultural resources by observing conservation zones of 50 m from the borders of the respective objects; (vii) compliance with occupational safety rules during construction to minimize potential impact on local communities; (viii) household waste should be regularly disposed at designated land-fills; and (ix) training of the entire personnel in safety using their language.
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The development objective of East West Highway Project for Kazakhstan involves the rehabilitation, upgrading and substantial new construction of long road section which traverses a variety of environments and landscapes.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts were as follows: (i) all vehicles and equipment used in construction must be up-to-date, regularly undergo maintenance and used according to recommendations of manufacturers; (ii) all plants have to work according to recommendations of the manufacturer and located at distance away from residential areas; (iii) areas of potential pollution of rivers will be designed to prevent accidental spills and runoff and protected by sediment settlement ditches; (iv) storage of topsoil and topsoil management; (v) illegal hunting near the project area will be prohibited; (vi) ensure safety of cultural resources by observing conservation zones of 50 m from the borders of the respective objects; (vii) compliance with occupational safety rules during construction to minimize potential impact on local communities; (viii) household waste should be regularly disposed at designated land-fills; and (ix) training of the entire personnel in safety using their language.
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Ratings for the First Rural Access and Mobility Project for Nigeria were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, risk to development outcome was substantial, Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately unsatisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: for the output- and performance-based road contract (OPRC) to be successful, sufficient preparatory work is required on the client’s part. In the absence of the requisite OPRC implementation capacity, the World Bank can support upfront capacity building for the implementing agencies and service providers. When the capacity of bidders to properly design the OPRC roads is low, it is advisable to consider an OPRC bid process that removes this responsibility from them. Review the risks associated with lump-sum prices for improvement and rehabilitation works in the OPRC bid documents. In choosing the road links that will form the OPRC packages, it is important to minimize logistical challenges at implementation. The choice to invest in the provision of basic accessibility leveraged government resources. Packaging of river crossing contracts requires careful consideration of the logistical implications. The reforms will have included funding of road maintenance using some form of road user-charging system or taxation system. Such a system will have been difficult to fully implement without a review of the principles governing the federation arrangements. In the absence of a federal-level model, the planned reforms in Kaduna state faced uncertainty. Inadequate institutional project implementation capacity should be addressed as early as possible. The momentum for reform appears to have been lost and by the time the related activities were implemented, sufficient time was not available for internalization of the outcomes and meaningful dialogue with stakeholders.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3131 MAY 10, 2017
The development objective of Lake Victoria Transport Program Project is to improve the efficient and safe movement of goods and people along the regional corridor from the border crossing at Rusumo to the border crossing at Nemba and Rusizi together with upgrades to road asset management and road safety in Rwanda.
... See More + This project has two components. 1) The first component, Improving the physical infrastructure, aims for the improvement of the primary infrastructure through design, build and multi-year maintenance has the following two subcomponents: (i) Road Infrastructure - Upgrading Ngoma-Nyanza road Lot 2: Kibugabuga-Shinga - Gasoro (66.55 kilometers); and (ii) Implementation of the Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs). 2) The second component, Improving the institutional infrastructure and implementation assistance, aims to provide support to strengthen and harmonize the institutional framework to ensure safe and efficient operation of private and public transport including cargo and transit traffic, and capacity building and assistance to support implementation of the project. It has the following two subcomponents: (i) Monitoring/supervision of Upgrading Ngoma-Nyanza road Lot 2: Kibugabuga- Shinga - Gasoro (66.55 kilometers); and (ii) Technical Assistance (TA) to Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA) and Ministry.
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The development objective of Dakar Bus Rapid Transit Pilot (BRT) Project for Senegal is to enhance urban mobility between Dakar and Guédiawaye through the development of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor.
... See More + This project has four components. 1) The first component, BRT Infrastructure, Fleet, and Systems, aims to finance goods, works, and services for detailed design, construction, and supervision of the BRT core infrastructure including the road infrastructure and its drainage system, landscaping, depot, terminals, stations, intersections, corridor traffic management systems, pedestrian crosswalks, sidewalks, and some bike lanes along the corridor. 2) The second component, Public transport network restructuring and road works, aims to finance goods, works, and services for road works along feeder routes, road works on vicinal roads to support diverted traffic due to suppressing of left turn movement as well as reduction of the ROW, and provision of urban furniture for public transport along feeder routes. 3) The third component, Capacity building and project management, aims to finance provision of technical assistance, operational costs, and capacity building in project implementation as well as in sustainable monitoring and supervising of BRT operations (including a mirror system), fiduciary and safeguard activities, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and financial audits. 4) The fourth component, Road safety, aims to finance provision of road safety technical assistances, education and sensitization campaigns of local communities to the BRT operations, and training and equipment.
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The development objective of East West Highway Project for Kazakhstan involves the rehabilitation, upgrading and substantial new construction of long road section which traverses a variety of environments and landscapes.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts were as follows: (i) cash compensation in the amount of market value of gross harvest for the remaining lease term; renewal of lease agreement on alternative land plot on previous conditions; (ii) in case of alienation or temporary land acquisition, as a result occurs partially or completely disrupted work of irrigation, drainage, erosion control structures (systems), losses can be based on the cost of the works for the construction of new or rehabilitation of existing facilities and structures (systems), including the cost of design - survey works; (iii) cash compensation for alienated acquired land on market price without payment of taxes, transfer registration fees and expenses, including all losses, which shall be due to the early termination of obligations owed to third parties; (iv) compensation for interrupting of business if such occurs; (v) compensation of the full market value or at the request of the owner the provision of structure in exchange; if the value of provided structure is lower than alienated, the owner is paid the difference in price; (vi) for owner, allowance is paid for lost wages for the period of forced break in work up to 3 months; (viii) for owner, if permanent, cash compensation is paid, which is equal to one year income; if temporary, cash compensation is paid for the period of income loss. Compensation is calculated on the basis of tax declaration or official minimum wage; (viii) land restored to original status at end of rental for land used for construction activities; (ix) land restored to original status at end of rental for land for borrow pits; (x) pecuniary recompense or providing of alternative land plots for land use as grasslands/pasture for livestock; and (xi) the land is subject to rehabilitation into original condition in rent period end for rented or leased lands.
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The development objective of the Guiyang Rural Roads Project for China is to provide improved transport accessibility in Guiyangthrough upgrading and rehabilitation of selected priority rural roads from the sector developmentplan, and to build the maintenance capacity of Guiyang.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: applying advanced construction technique, select and use machinery and transportation facilities meeting national related sanitary standards; make sure waste gas meet national relevant standards; implementing measures of watering and dust prevention to construction sites and roads during construction, reduce air storage of materials and set up space enclosing structure for concrete mixing stations to reduce pollution to ambient air; pioneer road for construction materials transportation should avoid passing through a dense residential area, and water it to reduce dust; sand and gravel transport vehicles should be covered by paulin to prevent material flying upward, scattering and leaking to pollute environment; during construction period, operable measures of plant protection must be made to minimize the destruction of vegetation of forest; no casual logging is allowed; engineering or vegetation measures should be taken for bare land formed during project construction; vegetation destruction caused by permanent land occupation should be repaired by road greening, tree and lawn planting in other places; temporary storage yard should be built on wasteland or land with poor farming condition and be cleared and vegetation recovered; trying best to avoid occupying cultivated land. Corresponding compensation should be made to occupied cultivated land according to related policies, help farmers with industrial restricting and ensure farmers who lose land maintain no lower life level than before; and after projection completion, temporary occupied land and spoil ground should be reclaimed to reduce occupation of cultivated land.
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The development objective of the Guiyang Rural Roads Project for China is to provide improved transport accessibility in Guiyangthrough upgrading and rehabilitation of selected priority rural roads from the sector developmentplan, and to build the maintenance capacity of Guiyang.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: applying advanced construction technique, select and use machinery and transportation facilities meeting national related sanitary standards; make sure waste gas meet national relevant standards; implementing measures of watering and dust prevention to construction sites and roads during construction, reduce air storage of materials and set up space enclosing structure for concrete mixing stations to reduce pollution to ambient air; pioneer road for construction materials transportation should avoid passing through a dense residential area, and water it to reduce dust; sand and gravel transport vehicles should be covered by paulin to prevent material flying upward, scattering and leaking to pollute environment; during construction period, operable measures of plant protection must be made to minimize the destruction of vegetation of forest; no casual logging is allowed; engineering or vegetation measures should be taken for bare land formed during project construction; vegetation destruction caused by permanent land occupation should be repaired by road greening, tree and lawn planting in other places; temporary storage yard should be built on wasteland or land with poor farming condition and be cleared and vegetation recovered; trying best to avoid occupying cultivated land. Corresponding compensation should be made to occupied cultivated land according to related policies, help farmers with industrial restricting and ensure farmers who lose land maintain no lower life level than before; and after projection completion, temporary occupied land and spoil ground should be reclaimed to reduce occupation of cultivated land.
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The development objective of the Road Asset Management Project for Liberia is to support the Recipient's efforts to reduce transport costs along the road corridor from Monroviato the Guinea border and to maintain the road in good condition over a 10-year period.
... See More + The additional financing is fully aligned with the strategic themes of the World Bank Group’s country partnership strategy (CPS) 2013-2017: (a) to rebuild core state functions and institutions; (b) to rehabilitate infrastructure to jump-start economic growth; and (c) to facilitate pro-poor growth. The additional financing will finance two new components consisting of: (a) road safety activities and right-of-way (RoW) preservation, and (b) involuntary resettlement along the 6.5 km urban section of Suakoko highway in Monrovia. The project closing date will be extended by 24 months, from June 30, 2022, to June 30, 2024. The results framework will be revised to better measure outputs related to the road works, gender impacts, citizen engagement, and road safety.
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The project development of the Improved Rural Connectivity Project for Zambia are to: (i) improve the Recipient’s rural road accessibility for communities in selected areas; (ii) strengthen institutional capacity for sustainable management of rural roads; and (iii) respond promptly and effectively to an Eligible Crisis or Emergency.
... See More + There are three components for this project. The first component, improvement of feeder roads, will support the upgrading, rehabilitation and maintenance of priority feeder road infrastructure in six top ranked provinces i.e. Central, Eastern, Northern, Luapula, Southern and Muching a Provinces. It will finance about 4,300 km of feeder roads comprising mainly of roads improved to gravel wearing course standards.The Project would also finance road improvement to low cost seal standards where a ten‐year projected vehicular traffic would be in excess of 50 to 100 vehicles per day (VPD). The second component,institutional strengthening in the roads sector (US$20 million). It has two sub-component, (i) coordination and implementation support will reinforce the project coordination function, and support project implementation roles of the entities concerned. (ii) Strategic institutional capacity enhancements will include technical services, physical works, goods and materials for the purpose of institutional strategic capacity enhancements within the sector, and human resources development. The third component, contingent emergency response component will allow for rapid reallocation of project proceeds in the event of a natural or man-made disaster or crisis that has caused or is likely to imminently cause a major adverse economic and/or social impact.
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The development objective of the Modernization and Restructuring of the Roads Sector Project for Croatia is to strengthen the institutional effectiveness, enhance the operational efficiency, and increase the debt service capacity of Croatia’s road sector.
... See More + The project comprises of three components. The first component, institutional strengthening and sector reforms objective to establish an institutional framework for the road sector, including through: financial transaction advisor; transport sector planning and road sector governance and monitoring; and implementation support. The second component, operational restructuring of road sector companies’ objective is to implement management tools and carry out the revenue enhancement and cost rationalization actions required to improve operational and financial sustainability of the road sector companies, including through: road classification and standards; road asset management system; rationalization of operations and business functions - motorways; tolling; operational and business rationalization of hrvatske ceste (HC); and road safety. The third component, debt optimization - up to EUR 4 billion of the road sector statement of expenditures (SOEs’) EUR 5.2 billion of debt may be optimized. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD’s) direct involvement relates to a first refinancing mobilized by the government with the support of an investment project financing (IPF) guarantee objective is to mobilize commercial financing for the road sector SOEs to refinance their short term and expensive loans (guaranteed refinancing facility).
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The development objective of Central Highlands Connectivity Improvement Project is to improve safe and climate-resilient road connectivity along the National Highway 19 Central Highlands-Central Coast corridor in Vietnam.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) livelihoods and income sources will be restored in real terms, at least, to the pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher; (ii) project affected people, without legal or recognizable legal claims to land acquired, who were in the project area prior to the cut-off date, will be equally entitled to participation in consultations and project benefit schemes , and be compensated for their lost non-land assets such as dwellings and structures occupied before cut-off date without deduction of salvageable materials; (iii) independent appraiser identifies replacement costs for all types of land and non-land assets affected to apply for compensation; (iv) provision of livelihood restoration and assistance measures for severely affected households who lose 20 percent (10 [percent for the poor/vulnerable households) of productive land to achieve the objectives of resettlement; (v) all households who lose their houses (fully affected, or partially affected but the remaining part is not usable) must be entitled to buying at least a standard land plot from the project’s resettlement site; (vi) households building houses on non-agricultural land prior to the project’s cut-off day but are eligible only for financial assistance will be additionally supported in terms of finance to enable them to afford a standard land plot in the project resettlement site if they have no other place to move to; (vii) relocating households who prefer Cash for Land will be compensated in cash at the full replacement cost; and (viii) compensation and allowance must be provided to affected households at least 30 days prior to the taking of the assets for those who are not to be relocated and 60 days in advance for those who will have to be relocated.
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The development objective of Central Highlands Connectivity Improvement Project is to improve safe and climate-resilient road connectivity along the National Highway 19 Central Highlands-Central Coast corridor in Vietnam.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) livelihoods and income sources will be restored in real terms, at least, to the pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher; (ii) project affected people, without legal or recognizable legal claims to land acquired, who were in the project area prior to the cut-off date, will be equally entitled to participation in consultations and project benefit schemes , and be compensated for their lost non-land assets such as dwellings and structures occupied before cut-off date without deduction of salvageable materials; (iii) independent appraiser identifies replacement costs for all types of land and non-land assets affected to apply for compensation; (iv) provision of livelihood restoration and assistance measures for severely affected households who lose 20 percent (10 [percent for the poor/vulnerable households) of productive land to achieve the objectives of resettlement; (v) all households who lose their houses (fully affected, or partially affected but the remaining part is not usable) must be entitled to buying at least a standard land plot from the project’s resettlement site; (vi) households building houses on non-agricultural land prior to the project’s cut-off day but are eligible only for financial assistance will be additionally supported in terms of finance to enable them to afford a standard land plot in the project resettlement site if they have no other place to move to; (vii) relocating households who prefer Cash for Land will be compensated in cash at the full replacement cost; and (viii) compensation and allowance must be provided to affected households at least 30 days prior to the taking of the assets for those who are not to be relocated and 60 days in advance for those who will have to be relocated.
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The development objective of Road Climate Resilience Project for Timor Leste is to deliver sustainable climate resilient road infrastructure on the Dili-Ainaro corridor.
... See More + This second level of restructuring requires additional financing (AF) of 35.20 million US dollars to cover a financing gap and cost overruns under the ongoing project. In addition, the restructuring requires the extension of the project closing date from December 31, 2018 until December 31, 2021 to complete the project activities
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The objective of the Guiyang Rural Road Project for China is to select the rural road with superior status, and to improve the traffic accessibility as well as the ability of rural road maintenance in Guiyang area by upgrading and reconstruction.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts include: (i) all affected villages or family shall obtain cash compensations for land acquisition; (ii) house owners without certificate of title shall receive compensation based on the civil cost of the structure (excluding land price) without any depreciation; (iii) all ground attachments will be compensated at replacement cost in cash; (iv) the demolished structure will be compensated at replacement cost in cash; (v) the owner of the affected enterprise will be compensated by cash for their business income loss; they can also obtain subsidies for relocation; (vi) ) affected laborers can get same wages as before land acquisition; and (vii) all resettlement programs should consider the women’s special needs; the women must be fully informed.
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