Presentations 

Title Description / Abstract
Performance-Based Road Management and Maintenance Contracts -Worldwide Experiences, Dr. Gunter Zietlow, International Seminar on Road Financing and Investment, Arusha, Tanzania, April 2007. The presentation provides an extensive introduction to Performance-Based Contracts (PBC) and discusses benefits and disadvantages of PBC, performance standards and response times, risk identification, sharing, and mitigation, performance monitoring, payments and incentive systems, data management and ownership, customer perception and community involvement, tender design and evaluation, changes required by the client, consultants, and contractors, implementation experiences, and lessons learned.
Recent Experiences and Lessons Learned with the Use of Performance Based Contracts, Cesar Queiroz, Transportation Research Board, 86th Annual Meeting, Washington, January 2007. The presentation describes the forms of price-based contracts, where PBC approaches have been used, what where the results, what are the potential pitfalls, and how they can be avoided, presents the World Bank Resource Guide and the lessons learned.
Using Micro-Enterprises to Create Local Contracting Capacity - The Latin American Experience (PPT), Dr. Gunter Zietlow, University of Birmingham (UK), Senior Road Executives Programme, Restructuring Road Management, Birmingham, 24-29 April 2005. The presentation describes the different types of micro-enterprises using a simple form of performance-based routine road maintenance contract, concentrates mainly on the cooperative micro-enterprises created in several Latin American countries, and demonstrates how they can help to create employment especially in rural areas.

Options for Implementing Performance-based Contracts (PPT), Cesar Queiroz, Lead Highway Engineer, World Bank, Transport Forum 2005, World Bank, 2005.

The presentation outlines the importance of road infrastructure and maintenance, the evolution of civil works execution, advantages and disadvantages of PBCs, bidding and bid evaluation, supervision and quality control, payment and liquidated damages, dispute settlements, and lessons learned

Assessment of PMMR Implementation Potential in Africa (PPT), Graham Williams, Highway Engineer, BCEOM , Transport Forum 2005, World Bank, 2005

The presentation explores the options of implementing performance based management and maintenance of roads by the World Bank in Africa. It identifies pilot projects in Tanzania, Madagascar, Chad, and Cap Verde Islands and discusses the issues involved in each country.
PMMR in the USA: Virginia Case Study (PPT), Kent Lande, P.E., Chief Engineer and Vice President, Louis Berger, Transport Forum 2005, World Bank, 2005.  The presentation highlights the characteristics of procurement contracts, the benefits of asset management. and the respective roles of government and the private sector.
Assessment of PMMR Implementation Potential in Africa (PPT), G. Williams, BCEOM., Presentation for the World Bank Transport Forum 2005, Washington, D.C. 2005. The presentation describes issues involved in preparing pilot project for PMMR in Tanzania, Madagascar, Chad, and Cap Verde Islands from the perspective of the consultant hired by the World Bank for this assignment.
Maintenance Delivery in Ontario  (PDF), Prepared for PIARC,  Kananaskis. Canada, December 2004. The presentation describes the maintenance delivery system used in Ontario, Canada.
2003/2004 Maintenance Contracts. Request for Proposals (PDF), J. Newhouse, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, Nov. 2002. This presentation is designed for a consultation meeting with interested bidders for the 2003/2004 maintenance contracts of the British Columbia Ministry of Transport.
Performance-Based Contracting in the District of Columbia, (PPT), Luke Dipompo ;  Mark Robinson, Paper presented to the 51th Annual Virginia Transportation Conference, Lexington, VA, October 2001. The presentation covers the characteristics of DC streets and bridge system, key issues confronting DC street and bridge system, reasons for turning to performance-based asset preservation, details, objectives, composition, and expectations of the contract, accomplishments to date, the procurement process, monitoring the contract, and lessons learned.
Performance Management: Challenges and Opportunities (PPT), Dennis M. Shea, Paper presented to the 51th Annual Virginia Transportation Conference, Lexington, VA, October 2001. The presentation gives an overview of the evolution of road maintenance at the Virginia Department of transport (VDOT), the asset management at VDOT, the Private/Public Transportation Act and the Asset Management Contract with VMS, the costing of the contract, and VDOT,s assessment of future contracts and initiatives.
Performance Contracting: The Federal Perspective (PPT), Frank Botelho,  Paper presented to the 51th Annual Virginia Transportation Conference, Lexington, VA, October 2001 The presentation discusses the principles of asset management at the US Federal Highway Administration.

Performance Management in Virginia (PPT), Charles Bennett, Paper presented to the 51th Annual Virginia Transportation Conference, Lexington, VA, October 2001.

The presentation gives an overview of the principles of performance management and discusses some of them in detail.
Commercialisation of Road Management in VicRoads (PDF), M. Douglas-Crane, Presentation for the World Bank. December 1999. This presentation describes the changes to the Victorian (Australia) road network and relates the changes to the World Bank reform principles.