Investigating the comparison between Concrete and Bituminous Road deterioration in Uganda.

Abstract

Road transport is by far the most dominant mode of transportation in Uganda, carrying over 95% of passenger and freight traffic. The national roads currently make up 25% of the road network but carry over 80% of the total road traffic. (www.unra.go.ug/, 2021) Uganda has a total of 159,363km road network. This is comprised of 20, 854km national roads, 38,603km of District roads, 19,959km of urban roads and 79, 947km of community roads. (works.go.ug, 2021) In Uganda, there has been a steady increase in the road sub-sector budget; however road development still takes the biggest share of the budget, at 90% while road maintenance is now at 7% of the total budget. According to the Economic Commission of Latin America, it is recommended that a country should spend between 2.5% and 3.5% of its road network’s replacement value each year. Economically this makes good sense, as such spending on road maintenance will provide an economic return of almost three times greater than the spending in the development of the new roads. (Bmau Briefing Paper, 2019)