The
Department of Roads is a government agency responsible
for development and management of Strategic Road
Network. The end goal of the Department is to reduce
total road transportation cost. To achieve this,
the DOR Strategy using the principle of Policy Action
plan was developed. One of the policy option (Refer
DOR Strategy Ref. No.2) is to establish a network
planning and monitoring capability in DOR. This
necessitated the establishment of a computer based
Highway Management Information System (HMIS) unit.
The HMIS was established under Planning and design
Branch in April 1994. However, HMIS unit is being
run under the foreign cooperation branch since 2004.
The successful
implementation of network planning is very much
dependant on the success of the HMIS. Since the
resources allocation for the management of the strategic
road network will nearly always be less than the
required, it is important that road priorities are
allocated on the basis of the traffic volume and
type, strategic importance and road condition. In
the context of recent establishment of Road Board,
the role of HMIS has become more vital.
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