Planning of National Transport Infrastructure
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Automatic Traffic Counts (ATC): These are not so common in Uganda at the current time, but
they involve counting vehicles automatically at permanent sites to enable a full daily profile of
traffic to be established. Modern systems are georeferenced and transmit data in real time. From
both manual and automatic counts, the Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) is established.
Roadside Interview (RSI) Survey: for specific projects questionnaire surveys are carried out that
contain questions about the current trip that the interviewee is making and importantly its
origin, destination and journey purpose.
Public Transport OD surveys (PTI): While RSIs apply to drivers of vehicles, travel demand data
is also gathered from passengers at key railway stations, bus stops, stations and interchanges.
The data collection survey instrument is normally a questionnaire that includes questions about
fares, type of public transport, and number of interchanges and their locations between the
respondent’s origin location and destination location.
Public Transport Counts (PTC): With public transport being of increasing importance in
transport planning, supply side data is also needed. This is problematic in many countries
because PT is all privately owned so obtaining data is difficult. But the bus stations are normally
owned by the state – Uganda in this case study, so this is where the data is normally collected
covering route number, numbers of boarded passengers before departing – number of seats,
load factor.
Household Interview (HI) surveys: Census data is available in Uganda for transport planning but
generally the data is nowhere near sufficient. So data is also collected at the household level that
will enable travel characteristics to be determined by socio-economic grouping. Data on number
of trips made by household members, by mode and by purpose and also expenditure on
transport.
3.3.7. Monitoring System
Annual sectoral performance reviews are the main means of monitoring the implementation of
the infrastructure plan. They do follow an integrated approach regarding the transport modes
but treat each transport mode individually. Implementation agencies in Uganda responsible to
manage project preparation, procuring construction and overseeing construction and operation
are UNRA, URC and the CAA for roads rail and aviation projects. It is required of agencies to
establish appropriate execution governance arrangements. It nominates a project sponsor (i.e.
a responsible officer), likely to be the head of the agency or head of the relevant department who
fill this role ex officio. The sponsor consolidates monitoring reports periodically for each project.
A complex, novel or particularly large project requires a steering committee to be set up that
includes non-agency role players, e.g. representatives of other ministries, local government and
even development partners. A project manager is designated for each project who prepares
more detailed project preparation and implementation plan and prepares inputs to the monthly
monitoring reports. The main criteria for monitoring projects are cost, time and scope of work.
Evaluation of projects after completion is quite rare in Uganda - and in most countries. Such
evaluations, which are described in the literature review, should be carried out to determine the
extent to which the project has what was expected of it, the process intended to improve the
quality of projects, being the last part of the project cycle. Recognising this, the Government of
Uganda is carrying out a full mid-term evaluation of its NTMP 2008–2023 in 2018. The