ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian Road Authority (ERA) is working to transform the national ‘Annual Road Research Conference ‘ into international level in two years’ time, The Ethiopian Herald learnt.
This was disclosed at the 6th Annual Road Research Conference held yesterday. The national conference has been held since 2013 with different themes.
The conference has been expanding and evolving from year to year and ERA is playing an important role to transform the conference to international level within the coming two years, said Director General of the Authority, Eng. Habtamu Tegegn
Eng. Habtamu sees the move as beneficial to Ethiopia in terms of international road researches. “Hopefully, our plan would come to fruition once the construction of the Main Research Center is finalized. The center will have comfortable Conference Room and Guest Houses”, he noted.
In addition to this, he said that supporting road infrastructural projects with research is important to ensure quality in the sector admitting that some projects face quality issue due to lack of research-assisted technology. he added.
According to him, the roads that have been built so far are frequently subject to quality related criticisms because they have not considered vehicle traffic.
This year’s Annual Road Research Conference was held with the theme: Ensuring effective road network through research. And also, in this conference, a total of nine articles were presented to the audience, it was learnt.
The Ethiopian Herald, August 30/2019
BY ABDUREZAK MOHAMMED
