2.3 Tanzania Road Network Distance Matrix Road Security Weighbridges and Axle Load Limits The dominant mode of transport in Tanzania is road transport. In the perspective of a relative low number of registered vehicles (512,000 cars and 4- wheeled light vehicles, 86,000 trucks and 49,000 busses in 2014), the death rate in traffic accidents in Tanzania is decreasing. 1,920 road accidents were recorded from July 2019 to March 2020 compared to 2,593 accidents reported from July 2018 to March 2019. 1,084 people were killed in the accidents from July 2019 to March 2020 compared to 1,216 deaths recorded from July 2018 to March 2019 which was a decrease of 11 percent.y. In addition, there are 809,000 motorised 2- and 3-wheelers and 55,000 other vehicles. (Report for Improvement of Road Safety In Tanzania Mainland, SUMATRA, 2019) Ministry of Work, Transport, and Communication Tanzanian road management falls under the authority of the Ministry of Work, Transport, and Communication, through Tanzania National Roads Agency (TANROADS). The Ministry now consists of three sectors that work in parallel, covering work sector, transport sector and communication sector. All these sectors have head offices at the capital city of Dodoma. Ministry in charge and address Telephone & Fax Email & Website Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Work, Transport and Communication Tel: +255 26 2322703, 2322702 Email: [email protected] Tanzania building agency (TBA) House, 5th floor, Moshi street, Fax: +255 26 2322704 Website: www.mwtc.go.tz P.O. Box 638, 40470 Dodoma, Tanzania Tanzania National Roads Agency (TANROADS) TANROADS is an executive agency under the Ministry of Works, Transport, and Communications, and came into operation in July 2000. The Agency is responsible for the maintenance and development of the trunk and regional road network in Tanzania Mainland classified road network. (Road Act, 2007). TANROADS Telephone & fax Email & Website Page 1 TANROADS Headquarters Tel: +255 22 2926001-6 Email: [email protected] P.O. Box 11364 Fax: +255 22 2926011 3rd Floor, Airtel House, Website: http://www.tanroads.go.tz Ali Hassan Mwinyi/Kawawa Roads Junction, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Road transport is the most widely used in Tanzania, carrying over 90% of the passengers and 75% of the freight traffic in the country. The road networks in Tanzania include 86,472 km of roads, of which 12,786 km are categorised as trunk roads and 21,105 km as regional roads according to TANROADS. The remaining 52,581 km is district, urban and feeder roads under the responsibility of Prime Minister’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PMO-RALG). Road transport in Tanzania faces different problems such as insufficient funds for rehabilitation, upgrading for routine maintenance, high rates of accidents on the roads occur due to poor state of the roads, weak institutional arrangement coordination in the road transport, and high costs of construction of roads and maintenance. (Tanzania Revenue Authority, 2017). In Tanzania, roads maintenance for both paved and unpaved roads is done through five ways. The first way is called routine and recurrent maintenance and mainly consists of grass cutting, reshape roads and cleaning of sewage system. The second way is called periodic maintenance. The third one is spot improvement and includes rutting and portholes. The fourth and fifth ways cover bridge preventive maintenance and repair and bridge major repair. (TANROADS, 2016) For more information on government contact details, please see the following link: 4.1 Government Contact List. Distance Matrix Distances from Capital City to Major Towns (km) Dodoma Dar Kigoma Mwanza Arusha Mbeya Tanga Mtwara 451 807 594 425 594 588 1007 Dodoma 451 1258 1152 646 822 354 556 Dar 807 1258 633 1090 860 1525 1814 Kigoma 594 1152 633 787 924 1222 1708 Mwanza 425 646 1090 787 1020 435 1202 Arusha 594 822 860 924 1020 959 1122 Mbeya 588 354 1525 1222 435 959 910 Tanga 1007 556 1814 1708 1202 1122 910 Mtwara Source: Tanzania road distance chart in km – TANROADS, 2017 Travel Time from Capital City to Major Towns (in hours) Dodoma Dares Salaam Kigoma Mwanza Arusha Mbeya Tanga Mtwara 8 13 11 7 11 9 17 Dodoma 8 22 20 13 15 6.5 9 Dar es Salaam 13 22 12 17 15.5 22 31 Kigoma 11 20 12 12 16 19 30 Mwanza 7 13 17 12 17 8 22 Arusha 11 15 15.5 16 17 18.5 17 Mbeya 9 6.5 22 19 8 18.5 15 Tanga 17 9 31 30 22 17 15 Mtwara Road Security Page 2 National road safety policy, which was put in place in 2001, provides the basis for working towards attaining the vision of a safe traffic environment. It also assists in guiding and coordinating the rules and actions of the relevant Ministries, Agencies and private sector institutions towards the rational use of scarce resources and thereby reducing duplication of effort. Tanzania’s vision is to have a safe environment for the Road Traffic System, which is in accordance with internationally accepted standards. The policy seeks to guide and unite all stakeholders and put emphasis on cooperation and sharing of knowledge, experience, expertise and resources. The National Road Safety Policy has been developed in accordance with the strategy for the reduction / prevention of accidents: 1. Engineering and Traffic Environment 2. Education and Information 3. Enforcement and Legislation 4. Emergency Response 5. Evaluation and other Comprehensive Actions In order to ensure safety on the road, the government has implemented a maximum speed limit of 50 km per hours on all highways approaching main towns and villages. This affects the travel time as this speed limited is strictly enforced. Weighbridges and Axle Load Limits The regulation which regulates issues of weighbridges and axle load limitations is “The Road Traffic Act, 1973 – The Road Traffic (Maximum Weight of the Vehicles) Regulations, 2001”. Axle Load Limits Tanzania Truck with 2 Axles 18,000 kg Truck with 3 Axles 26,000 kg Truck with 4 Axles 28,000 kg Semi-trailer with 3 Axles 28,000 kg Semi-trailer with 4 Axles 36,000 kg Semi-trailer with 5 Axles 44,000 kg Semi-trailer with 6 Axles 50,000 kg Truck & Drawbar Trailer with 4 Axles 37,000 kg Truck & Drawbar Trailer with 5 Axles 45,000 kg Truck & Drawbar Trailer with 6 Axles 53,000 kg Truck & Drawbar Trailer with 7 Axles 56,000 kg SOURCE: The Road Traffic (Maximum Weight of Vehicles) Regulations, 2001 Page 3.