Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
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Tsunami wave up to twelve meters occurred on twenty sixth December flattened about eight hundred km stretch of Aceh coast and destroyed most of the existing residential, public buildings, paddy fields, fish ponds and the infrastructures within and surrounding the coastal areas. Around three thousand km road and hundred and twenty bridges have been recognised to be rebuilt. Thousands of road projects need to be implemented within the four years reconstruction period. Thus, most of the road developments have been focused on the repaving works rather than build new road alignments with better hierarchy, geometry and adequate road furniture. As the Government intends to implement the road safety audit on road project to provide safer roads, it was noted that the authority missed the opportunity to conduct the audit during the design stages.
