Roads, Paths and Tracks

Transport infrastructure is important to the prosperity of rural communities and communities can play a part in making this infrastructure for themselves.

Practical Answers is the Technical Information Service of Practical Action. It provides information on appropriate, small-scale technologies that improve the lives of people living in poverty. It allows you to access the wealth of technical knowledge within Practical Action as well as that of our partners and other people working to reduce poverty.

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    Low cost mobility for life
    (2008) Practical Action Eastern Africa; Practical Action Eastern Africa
    The Government of Kenya has been working on a policy to improve integrated transport planning for the past 4 years. However, there has been a challenge in providing adequate resources for development and maintenance of roads due to critical financial constraints. The bottlenecks to an improved urban transport system have been the lack of other infrastructural facilities such as footpaths for pedestrians, separate lanes for cyclists {or Non-motorized Transport (NMT)}, street lights, fly-overs and bypasses
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    අපේ පාර
    (Practical Action, South Asia, 2006) Practical Action Sri Lanka; Practical Action Sri Lanka
    This video is about the process and methods of constructing community based rural roads.
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    Alternative Transport in Nepal
    (Practical Action, South Asia, 2014) Practical Action
    Practical Action Nepal has introduced and successfully demonstrated various alternative transport systems such as gravity goods ropeways, tuins and bicycle trailers/ambulances that have significant impacts on the lives and livelihoods of poor people by improving their access to markets and other essential services.
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    Intermediate Equipment for Road Works and Small & Medium Enterprises
    (Practical Action, United Kingdom, 2012) Robert Petts
    This manual provides a short overview of the issues and approaches for making best use of available resoruces.
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    Handbook of Intermediate Equipment for Road Works in Emerging Economies (Selection and Costing)
    (Practical Action, United Kingdom, 2012) Robert Petts
    This handbook provides a reference for local contractors, entrepreneurs, governments and development agencies, in order to plan and introduce practical, affordable and sustainable, rehabilitation and maintenance programmes for their country’s rural road systems.
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