Deliver Higher Levels of Service on your Road Network
This Executive Seminar includes a program of presentations and discussions about performance-based contracts and how they can help road agencies meet their desired outcomes. Participants will engage in working groups with experts who are actively involved in maintenance contracting and asset management to discuss the application of best practices under different country conditions.
Course Outcomes
Understand PBCs and their role in maintaining road infrastructure services
Develop a Business Case for PBCs
Understand the role of service levels and the associated data requirements
Defining and Measure Risk under Performance-Based Road Contracts
Successfully manage the Client-contractor Relationship
Get exposed to global and regional PBC best practices
Discover solutions to road delivery and maintenance problems faced in your country
For more than 40 years, Mr. Fergerstrom's career has focused on management consulting to public transportation agencies in the United States and overseas. In the course of his career, he has assisted more than 30 public works agencies to strengthen institutional capacity. On most of these projects he has managed diverse teams of highly specialized experts working with client agencies to develop strategies for institutional strengthening and implement structural reform. His areas of expertise include maintenance contracting, organizational reviews, restructuring, management systems, conducting workshops and assessing potential for privatization.
Janusz Sobieniak
Janusz Sobieniak is an experienced and versatile Transport Engineer who has worked for 30 years with donor agencies on transport sector projects in more than 40 developing countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Core competencies include planning, engineering design, project management, management information systems and institutional development in the road and civil aviation sectors.
Asif Faiz
Dr. Asif Faiz is a former World Bank Highways Adviser and Infrastructure Sector Manager with some 40 years of experience in designing, managing and implementing transport development policies, programs and projects in more than 40 developing countries. After retiring from the World Bank in 2008, he has consulted as a technical and policy advisor for the World Bank Group- public investment programs and projects covering motorways, airports, highway improvement and maintenance programs, rural roads, and transport services in more than 20 countries. He managed the World Bank's infrastructure program in Latin America in 1990s, under which area-wide performance-based road maintenance contracts were implemented in Argentina and Uruguay. He helped initiate similar maintenance contracts in Georgia and hybrid PBMCs in Tonga.
Wayne Hatcher
Wayne Hatcher has more than 20 years of experience managing highway infrastructure. During that time he has developed leading skills in infrastructure asset management, particularly in the use and application of asset data to support effective highway management. Mr. Hatcher has developed and enhanced several systems that help highway asset managers make informed decisions, including: economic appraisal; asset valuation and depreciation; performance monitoring and management; prioritization; and optimization. He is a leading proponent for highway condition forecasting including development and implementation of decision support tools to assist highway managers.
