HE PROJECT FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR PREPARATION OF CLIMATE RESILIENCE DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR THE PUBLIC ENTERPRISE FOR STATE ROADS was financed by World Bank loan. The project was implemented by IMC Worldwide.
These guidelines and the associated methodology statement have been produced for PESR to enable the organisation to better understand the impacts of climate related events on North Macedonia’s road network, the appropriate courses of action that are available and the priorities in terms of investment. The guidelines have been designed as a series of linked documents, each of which is targeted at a different audience within PESR and North Macedonia’s road sector organisations.
As stated in the CEDR 2012 Climate Change DoRN: “Road authorities need to evaluate the effect of Climate Change on the road network and take remedial action concerning design, construction and maintenance of the road network. The prioritization of measures in order to maximize availability with reasonable costs is one of the most important tasks of the road owners”.
The aim of the work is, based on experience gained in the Republic of North Macedonia and Western Balkans, to support policy and decision makers in establishing a foundation for taking climate hazard resilience considerations in the road transport management and response plans. To this end, this work proposes a flexible methodological framework that can be used by authorities to assess sensitivity of their road networks to natural hazards, in particular to floods and landslides. The methodology allows application even in conditions of less ideal data availability and capacities of national institutions, enabling them to address risk and resilience to develop corresponding investment plans. In order to support decision makers in PESR in extending vulnerability assessment and improve their response capacities, a particular approach to assess the road network vulnerability to the aforementioned hazards is developed, supplemented by “tool” that will support the processes of selecting/designing of most appropriate engineering and non-engineering measures by the contractors hired by PESR.
The main purpose of these Guidelines is through their application PESR to advance the overall design process at all stages of the project management. The resilient designs of the new and the roads to be reconstructed, need to be informed by the climate effects as well as be adopted to the international best practices.