Common use of Road Maintenance Project Clause in Contracts

Road Maintenance Project. The evaluation of the Road Maintenance Project is expected to be a performance evaluation with quantitative and qualitative components. One component will be economic modeling using the HDM-4 Model. This approach will require an independent assessment of road quality data across the SRN both before and after the MCC investments. The final independent assessment and HDM-4 model should occur at least 2-3 years after completion of the Project works. The independent evaluator will assess the HDM-4 calculations that went into the investment decision and determine whether baseline data collection is required to update the model. This quantitative component to the evaluation will speak to the effectiveness of both the technical assistance and maintenance works because it will evaluate achievement of the overall Project Objective of avoiding increases in transportation costs across the SRN. The qualitative component of the evaluation will attempt to capture the effectiveness of the technical assistance on improving DOR’s maintenance planning and implementation. This may include process evaluation to map how processes have changed from baseline to endline and/or document review and observation. The questions that will guide the design of the evaluation include: • What is the economic return – calculated in terms of vehicle operating cost savings and travel time savings – of the road maintenance investment? This question links to the following outcome indicators: road roughness and surface distress index. • What are the relevant road authority’s current maintenance practices and what is the likelihood that MCC’s investment will remain adequately maintained? What were the effects of investments in improved maintenance? Has maintenance of the overall network improved? These questions link to the outcome indicator tracking road maintenance expenditures and the pending indicators related to improved maintenance planning and implementation. Road Maintenance Project Result Indicator Definition Unit Baseline Target Target Date Outcome Indicators Project Objective: Avoided increases in transportation costs across the SRN Avoided road rehabilitation/ upgrading expenditures Roughness The measure of the roughness of the road surface, in meters of height per kilometer of distance traveled. Calculated as sum of International Roughness Index (IRI) measure per kilometer / total road length. Meters per kilometer H07: 8.0 H08: 8.9 H09: 9.0 H02: 9.8 H11: 7.1 (2016) Source: 2017 RMP CBA H07: 3.7 H08: 3.8 H09: 3.7 H02: 4.4 H11: 3.7 Source: 2017 RMP CBA 3 years post completion of works

Road Maintenance Project. The evaluation of the Road Maintenance Project is expected to be a performance evaluation with quantitative and qualitative components. One component will be economic modeling using the HDM-4 Model. This approach will require an independent assessment of road quality data across the SRN both before and after the MCC investments. The final independent assessment and HDM-4 model should occur at least 2-3 years after completion of the Project works. The independent evaluator will assess the HDM-4 calculations that went into the investment decision and determine whether baseline data collection is required to update the model. This quantitative component to the evaluation will speak to the effectiveness of both the technical assistance and maintenance works because it will evaluate achievement of the overall Project Objective of avoiding increases in transportation costs across the SRN. The qualitative component of the evaluation will attempt to capture the effectiveness of the technical assistance on improving DOR’s maintenance planning and implementation. This may include process evaluation to map how processes have changed from baseline to endline and/or document review and observation. The questions that will guide the design of the evaluation include: • What is the economic return – calculated in terms of vehicle operating cost savings and travel time savings – of the road maintenance investment? This question links to the following outcome indicators: road roughness and surface distress index. • What are the relevant road authority’s current maintenance practices and what is the likelihood that MCC’s investment will remain adequately maintained? What were the effects of investments in improved maintenance? Has maintenance of the overall network improved? These questions link to the outcome indicator tracking road maintenance expenditures and the pending indicators related to improved maintenance planning and implementation. Road Maintenance Project Result Indicator Definition Unit Baseline Target Target Date Outcome Indicators Project H07: 8.0 H08: 8.9 H09: 9.0 H02: 9.8 H11: 7.1 (2016) Source: 2017 RMP CBA Objective: Avoided H07: 3.7 increases in H08: 3.8 transportation costs across the SRN Avoided road rehabilitation/ upgrading expenditures Roughness The measure of the roughness of the road surface, in meters of height per kilometer of distance traveled. Calculated as sum of International Roughness Index (IRI) measure per kilometer / total road length. Meters per kilometer H07: 8.0 H08: 8.9 H09: 9.0 H02: 9.8 H11: 7.1 (2016) Source: 2017 RMP CBA H07: 3.7 H08: 3.8 H09: 3.7 H02: 4.4 H11: 3.7 Source: 2017 RMP CBA 3 years post completion of worksworks Avoided road rehabilitation/ total road length. RMP CBA upgrading expenditures