TACR: Indonesia: Regional Roads Development Project
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Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report Project Number: 38479 April 2010 Republic of Indonesia: Regional Roads Development Project (Financed by the Japan Special Fund) Annexes 6. Assessment of Vehicle Overloading 7. Poverty and Social Analysis 8. Draft Resettlement Framework Prepared by MMM Group Ltd, Canada In association with Pt Guteg Harindo & Pt Bina Karya (Persero), Indonesia This consultant’s report does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB or the Government concerned, and ADB and the Government cannot be held liable for its contents. All the views expressed herein may not be incorporated into the proposed project’s design. The contents of this report reflect the project design from early 2010, under a multitranche finance facility lending modality. The project design has been subsequently amended in 2011 and converted to a single project loan lending modality. Therefore the reader should be aware that the report contents and the final design of the Regional Roads Development Project do not directly correlate. 1 Annex 6 – Vehicle Overloading Assessment TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 2 1.1 PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT.......................................................................................................... 2 1.2 THE INDONESIAN ROADS SECTOR................................................................................................ 2 1.3 INSTITUTIONAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES .............................................................................. 3 1.3.1 Government ...................................................................................................................... 3 1.3.2 Private Sector.................................................................................................................... 3 1.3.3 Other Stakeholders ........................................................................................................... 3 1.3.4 Donors............................................................................................................................... 4 2. CURRENT GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES...................................................................................... 4 2.1 ZERO PERCENT TOLERANCE ....................................................................................................... 4 2.2 WEIGH BRIDGE STATIONS IN JAVA AND KALIMANTAN..................................................................... 5 3. RELEVANT PROJECT BACKGROUND ....................................................................................... 6 3.1 SUMATERA REGIONAL ROADS PROJECT....................................................................................... 7 3.1.1 Pilot Project on Vehicle Weigh Stations ............................................................................ 7 3.1.2 Performance Incentives .................................................................................................... 8 3.1.3 Staged Enforcement ......................................................................................................... 8 3.1.4 Summary and Conclusions of the SRRP Project .............................................................. 9 4. PROPOSED MODEL ................................................................................................................... 10 4.1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 10 4.2 INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION ........................................................................................................... 10 4.3 LOCATION OF WEIGH STATIONS................................................................................................. 11 4.4 PERFORMANCE BASED CONTRACTS .......................................................................................... 11 4.5 IMPACT ON MAINTENANCE COSTS.............................................................................................. 12 4.6 EXTERNAL PUBLICITY AND PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN......................................................... 13 4.7 MANAGEMENT OF WEIGH STATIONS........................................................................................... 13 4.8 OTHER ISSUES ......................................................................................................................... 14 4.9 LEGAL ASPECTS ....................................................................................................................... 14 5. CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................................................... 15 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2-1 - Typical Overloaded Truck..................................................................................... 5 LIST OF TABLES Table 2-1 Overloading Violations ............................................................................................. 5 Table 2-2 Weigh Station Status ............................................................................................... 5 Table 3-1 Maximum Monthly Performance Payments to Seconded Staff................................ 8 Preparing the Regional Roads Development Project – Final Report 2 Annex 6 – Vehicle Overloading Assessment 1. Introduction 1.1 Purpose of this Report The Terms of Reference require the Consultant to: “Assess the degree of vehicle overloading, the condition and operating procedures of existing weighbridge stations in the project provinces. Review and assess recent public- private partnership measures for facility operation to improve sustainability. Assess institutional capacity of all relevant agencies to implement policies and regulations, including enforcement to determine necessary capacity development requirements.” This review has been prepared based on discussions with the Government employees from the Ministry of Communications (MOC) (in particular Traffic and Transportation Division LLAJ), consultants who have been instrumental in recent or ongoing projects and provincial P2JJ offices and weigh station operators, and finally our own experience. According to available reports (refer Table 2-2) the re are no weigh stations on any of the Subcomponent 2 roads in Java, one (non-operational) station in West Kalimantan (Tanjung), and one planned in East Kalimantan (Tanjung Redeb – Tanjung Selor). Categorical data for overloading on the Subcomponent 2 corridor is thus not available. It is known however, both anecdotally and from factual accounts from other provinces that vehicle overloading is a serious issue throughout Indonesia and though a number of different methods have been trialed, no single method to date has been able to totally remove the problem. Each method has provided a number of ‘ways’ to short circuit the process. Our surveys indicate very limited overloaded trucks at present on the Subcomponent 2 roads. This could be partly due to the remoteness of the links from the standard transport corridors, the general standard and quality of the roads and the terrain of a number of the links. 1.2 The Indonesian Roads Sector As with other developing countries, the roads sector plays an extremely important role in Indonesia’s overall transportation network. With relatively less-developed and under-utilized rail, air and sea transport networks, movement of passengers and goods via roads on each of the country’s islands represents the major means of transport. As such, road transport is a major contributor to the country’s economy, supporting major economic sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture, fostering communications between the country’s rural and urban areas and serving as an income-generating force in itself. The country’s road network reflects Indonesia’s three levels of government, the national road network is the responsibility of the national government, provincial roads are the responsibility of the provincial governments and city or district roads are the responsibility of local government. The most densely settled island of Java has the highest density of roads and the islands of Sumatra and Bali, and, to a lesser extent, Sulawesi and Kalimantan, also have reasonably well-developed and integrated road networks. Networks on other islands are rudimentary although they play important roles in the local economy and in facilitating communication. Indonesia has long realized the importance of its roads network and has supported the development of the national network, associated regional networks and connections between rural areas and market/administrative towns and the overall network. Funding for these Preparing the Regional Roads Development Project – Final Report 3 Annex 6 – Vehicle Overloading Assessment developments has come from national and local budgets, from bi-and multi-lateral donors and, in recent years, from private sector investments. Shortfalls in funding availability and increased demand for roads sector investments have led to a number of key issues needing to be addressed: • Insufficient overall road capacity; • Chronic under funding of routine maintenance and road rehabilitation efforts; • Failure to sufficiently support efforts to protect the conditions of existing roads; • Lack of attention to activities designed to increased road safety and prolong road usage and accessibility; and • Difficulties in addressing weaknesses in the policy and institutional frameworks which underlie the sector.