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 To prepare bills, enactments, by-Laws and procedures required in field of internal and international
transportation and road maintenance; and to submit them to competent authorities;
 To supervise and approve technical and executive regulations to maintain roads, technical and
installation buildings and to notify them to concerned sections;
 To supervise preparation and presentation of plans, projects. In field of roadmaintenance, technical
buildings, sites and to proceed studies and planning which are required to be made;
 To proceed planning in order to develop the transit roads of the country.”93
The Transport Department is responsible for the financial side. Their task is to distribute “national
budget among provinces based on national strategies in the transport and urban development
sectors”.94 The Iranian government has actively sought out and secured investments from the private
sector and foreign investors.95
Corridor Performance Monitoring/Dissemination
The RMTO is also responsible for monitoring and dissemination of data. Their duty is to “aggregate
basic statistics and information of road transportation and maintenance under the cooperation of
related organization and institutes and to establish data bank”.96
Corridor Promotion and Stakeholder Consultation
Promotion in the field of road maintenance and transportation is with the RMTO.97 The Transport
Department is responsible for “formulating required policies to encourage the non-governmental
sector to invest; attracting domestic and foreign investment and cooperating in the roads and urban
planning sector”.98
Capacity Building, Technical Assistance/Studies
Again, a shared responsibility between RMTO and the Transport Department. RMTO provides “general
education and expert training” for the road transportation sector.99
The Transport Department’s tasks are:
 Directing studies; examining requirements; identifying services, urban planning and transportation
capacities; providing relevant strategic plans; and providing strategic and economic guidelines to
related organizations;
 Directing and high-level supervision of transportation information management and presenting
relevant statistics in the decision-making, planning, supervising and evaluating system;
 High-level supervision of transportation and urban planning programs and projects and
consolidating them into the framework of strategic plans for each sector; providing technical and
economic expert opinions;
 Directing and supervising studies and examining medium-term and long-term plans in order to
create and develop transportation networks.”100
Legal Framework
In 2009, Iran became a member of TRACECA. As such, it signed the ‘Basic Multilateral Agreement on
International Transport for Development of the Europe-the Caucasus-Asia Corridor’.101
INDONESIA
General Information
The homepage of the Indonesian government, as well as many other direct sources, are in Indonesia’s
official language: Bahasa Indonesia. Therefore, we will mostly use secondary sources. Because of this,
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