His Excellency TSARANAZY Jean Emile, Minister of Public Works

His Excellency RASOLONAY Charles Angelo, Minister of Transport and Meteorology

His Excellency Général de Corps d’Armée BORY Jean Paul, Secretary of State for Police Force

International Seminar

Technical Committees Meetings

THE WORLD ROAD ASSOCIATION MALAGASY COMMITTEE

CMGAIPCR

1/ - THE PURPOSES OF THE SEMINAR ON MAY 2002 IN ANTANANARIVO

To promote the means and infrastructures of rural transport (roads, tracks and paths) by pointing up their impacts on the economic and social development and on poverty reduction.

M. RAJAONARISON Claude Roger, Director of Land Transport

Ministry of Transports and Meteorology

Tél : +261 33 11 392 56 – Fax + 261.20.22 240.01/22 643 47

The CMGPIARC Members

Contact : Tél  : +261 20 22 295.51 ) Richard RANDRIANARISOA

+261 30 23 817 14)

+261 32 07 528 61 Lychard RAZAFINDRANAIVO

+261 20 22 421 88 Raymond RAZAFIMAHATRATRA

Fax  : 261 20 22 349 46

261 20 22 434 58

What is expected is to make out an inventory of best practices to recommend and to bring out relevant topics for research into improving rural transport, in order to aim sustainable developement.

The seminar is for the C3 and C20 Committees members or non-members, it is also for PIARC non members belonging to Road Community and Transport, engineers or non-engineers of the national highway authority, with the contribution of Donors.

Monday 13 May 2002

Afternoon  - Registration for Rural Transport International Seminar.

Morning  - Official Opening of the Seminar.

Themes : - Social and economic justifications of rural transport (access needs, appropriate low cost

technique, local private sector development, labour based methods, poverty reduction…).

- Management of financing of rural transport infrastructure : use of HDM4 for decision

making,…

Afternoon 

Themes : - Rural roads standards and structure design methods, sustainability, appropriate technology.

- Management of financing of rural roads maintenance. Involvment of local Communities.

Morning 

Themes : - Promotion of rural transport services and intermediate means of transport.

Afternoon 

Themes : - Topics for research in rural roads : standards, structure design, adaptation of HDM4, road safety, etc ...

- Themes in the field of Intermediate Means of Transport : infrastructures, means of transport,

financing and management.

- Conclusions (follow up). End of the Seminar.

C3 and C20 Technical Committees Meetings with CMGAIPCR.

End of the Meetings.

Experts proposals coming from different countries about the topics as planned in the programme of the Seminar must be sent to the CMGPIARC office no later than October 1, 2001.

Texts of no more than 750 words written in French or in English must be returned with the reply form included in this document (page 5) by mail, fax or e-mail.

If you send your presentation by e-mail, please observe the following rules :

The abstracts will be examined by the organizing committee. Those selected will be divided into oral and poster presentations. A poster session is a session in which authors make their presentations in poster form on a vertical stand and answer delegates’questions. Authors who do not wish to be selected for an oral presentation must specify this in advance.

The authors will be informed by letter before November 1, 2001, of the result of the selection and will thus know whether their proposal has been selected or not.

Presentation implies that the author will be registered for and attend the Seminar.

Your abstract will be published and distributed to all participants.

Once your abstract will be accepted, you will be informed and must send the full text of your prestantion to CMGAIPCR before December 1, 2001.

Please note that communication and presentation are not to be paid.

Programme will be developed to be indicated at a later date.

Please fill in the corresponding form (page 4).

Registration procedures will be published in the second announcement on October 15, 2001.

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