Transcript Open Days 2008 Presentation on JASPERS

Introduction to
JASPERS
and reflections on
Sustainable Roads
Kristian DUUS, JASPERS
Roads Division, Vienna Regional Office
JASPERS overview
• ‘Joint Assistance to Support Projects in European Regions’
• joint initiative: Commission, EIB, and EBRD
• 17 beneficiaries: Member States which joined EU in 2004
and 2007, Croatia from 2011, Greece, fY Republic of
Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia from 2013
• focus on preparation of major projects to facilitate timely
approval of high quality projects
• mandate for 2007-13 and 2014-20 programming periods
• target: member states and expanding
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Overview
• Extensive project experience over 17 countries
(801 completed/ €96 billions, 294 major approved/€56 billions)
• close relationship over many years with MSs,
Commission and IFIs
• internalisation of expertise, learn from experience
• IFIs’ in-house technical capacity and experience
• based in EIB but separate from EIB lending operations
• Close to beneficiaries: 70% of staff in 3 regional offices
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Objectives
• improving the quality of investments
• accelerating the approval of projects by the Commission
and by the national authorities
• building capacity within national administrations:
 learning-by-doing and replicating successful
methods
 Workshops and seminars
 horizontal issues (e.g. state aid, PSCs)
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Project cycle
Pre-feasibility
or concept
stage
 Comments and guidance on strategies and master plans;
 assistance in developing project concepts vis-à-vis EU
regulations and in the preparation of the Terms of Reference for
the beneficiary to select a consultant for the preparation of the
feasibility study.
Feasibility
stage
 Methodological support during the preparation of the feasibility
study;
 support to the beneficiary and/or line ministry in the review of
intermediate and final deliverables.
Application
stage
 Review of the draft application form and the annexes before the
submission by the national authorities to COM for approval
Implementation  Selective implementation support in specific cases
Horizontal
outputs
 JASPERS may also advise on horizontal issues that affect
several projects/subsectors/countries. The output of such
assistance is through reports/workshops/presentations.
Horizontal actions can help unblock issues across a whole sector
or series of projects (e.g. state aid, environmental issues, CBA.)
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Sustainable roads
• Life Cycle Management – Investment 1
• Thorough preparation of investments to ensure
adequate and affordable service level
• Feasibility studies including detailed data collection,
purpose fit modelling, followed by option analysis
• Prepare economic and financial cost benefit analysis
including risk assessment and sensitivity analysis
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Sustainable roads
• Life Cycle Management – Investment 2
• Road network development to be done in coordination
with rail and public transport - Multimodality.
• Road network development to be done in coordination
with local (development) plans.
• Local development plans provides an opportunity to
identify and support a pattern of development that
minimises trip generation and encourages use of
sustainable modes of transport
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Sustainable roads
• Life Cycle Management – Investment 3
• In delivering economic growth at local level, it is
essential that the wider economic needs of the country
are not compromised.
• New accesses to busy high speed strategic roads lead
to more weaving and turning manoeuvres
• Which in turn create additional risk to safety and reduce
the reliability of journeys
• Resulting in a negative impact on overall national
economic activity and performance
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Sustainable roads
• Life Cycle Management – maintenance 1
• The maintenance cost are defined already at design
stage!!
• Use feedback from maintenance operations to improve
the design for low-cost maintenance purposes
• Systematic data collection, management and sharing
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Sustainable roads
• Life Cycle Management – maintenance 2
• Simplify procedures
• Streamline maintenance procurement
• Quality standards driven maintenance contracts
• Monitor the maintenance costs
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Sustainable roads
• Life Cycle Management – road safety
• Analyse the existing safety situation and identify
problems
• Safety audits in the design phase
• Monitor safety performance – and provide feed back on
sections with increased number of accidents
• Safety inspections + follow-up
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Sustainable roads
• Life Cycle Management – road safety winter
• Spreading salt too late or too little – more accidents
• Spreading salt too early or too much – higher cost
• Optimize winter maintenance – use IT for appropriate
warning systems
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Contact details
JASPERS
100, boulevard Konrad Adenauer
L-2950 Luxembourg
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +352 4379-1
www.jaspers-europa-info.org
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