主催: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
p. 298
Developing countries in Asia are starting to have sophisticated infrastructures. The infrastructure is usually financed by international agencies. As a consequence, these countries need large funding and knowledge to run and maintain those infrastructures. This paper discussed about the operation and maintenance of toll bridge called The Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh. It is operated and maintained by appointed third party through international tender for every five years. Interestingly the bidder beside comes from developed countries such as Japan, also comes from developing countries like Malaysia, and Indonesia. At the second terms, Indonesian company with local partner has won the bid. Through this system, developing countries is starting to get their chances to be involved in having and maintaining highly modern infrastructures, cost efficiency. The trickle down effect of technology and economy is occuring from developed nations to the less developed ones