Road transport innovation awards

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February 17, 2012 Read time: 2 mins

First winners of the new Innovation Award for Road Transport in Developing Countries (IaARoaD) receive their awards

The members of 1201 IRF Geneva gathering in Bucharest, Romania, for a major Symposium on Road Safety and the public launch of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety, took advantage of the glittering occasion of the gala dinner to present trophies to the first winners of the new Innovation Award for Road Transport in Developing Countries (IaARoaD).

The inaugural laureates were announced in reverse order, with the overall third prize going to the MIROS Road Accident Analysis and Database System, submitted by Mr. Hizal Hanis Hashim of the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS). This project won under the Road Safety category.

Second prize overall went to the winner of the Rural Transport category: The District Roads Support Programme (DRSP) for Nepal, entered by Mr. Josef Zimmermann, Mr. Dhanda Bahadur Tamang and Mr. Sushil Chandra Tiwari (of DRSP) in association with Mr. Aman Jonchhe of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

The overall first prize-winner (drawn from the Finance and Economics category) recognised a dynamic model for effective public-private partnership (PPP) implemented by the Road Infrastructure Development Company of Rajasthan (RIDCOR). The project was represented by Mr. Harish Mathur of RIDCOR, together with Mr. K. Ramchand of IL&FS Transportation Networks Limited (ITNL).

These and other key InARoaD projects will be presented more fully in future issues, starting this month (see article on next page).

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