The deterioration of Zambia's road assets over the past fifty years can be attributed to multiple factors. Significant restoration efforts began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of the Road Sector Investment Plan, followed by a Phase II from 2003 to 2013. The author highlights numerous diagnostic studies that have explored road financing strategies, revealing inefficiencies in asset management and proposing various solutions to address these challenges.
Focusing on Zambia's transportation infrastructure, the dissertation highlights the economic advantages of investing in transport systems. It notes the current imbalance, with road transport handling over 85% of freight, underscoring the critical need for sustainable road maintenance. The study advocates for a strategic approach that balances maintenance investments with new construction efforts to enhance competitiveness and efficiency in the transport sector.
Rapid urbanization poses significant challenges in Zambia, particularly concerning sustainable resource management. This essay examines the consequences of this phenomenon, highlighting inefficiencies in housing, transportation, and finance, alongside rising pollution and crime rates. It contrasts these issues with the predominantly donor-driven urban renewal plans, which aim to address the shortcomings of inadequate settlement planning and weak enforcement of regulations. The study underscores the complexities of managing urban growth in a developing context.
Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Engineering - General,
Basics, Stellenbosch Universitiy (Stellenbosch University), course: Master of
Engineering - Transportation Engineering, language: English, abstract:
Insufficient budgetary allocations to road maintenance normally result in road
deterioration that significantly reduces the utility of the roads. The problem
makes it expensive and more difficult to move products and services from
producers to consumers or inputs to industrial centres. Construction of new
roads is deterred due to lack of funds, which entails that many areas which
have the potential to trigger economic growth would remain unnecessarily
inaccessible for far too long. Over the years, the Southern Africa Development
Community (SADC) sub-region has initiated reforms, many times with the support
of international financial institutions, materially aimed at improving
financing of new roads and maintenance. In spite of the August 1996 SADC
Protocol on Transport, Communication and Meteorology, initiation and
establishment of structures for utilisation of new funding strategies have
been taken by member states on an individual basis. The implication of this is
that such strategies may be viewed as case-specific solutions. In this
project, the author analyses the employment of new strategies in order to
determine how effective they have been, with the view to broadening the
existing knowledge base on financing of road transport systems in the SADC
sub- region
