Around 42 000 km of rural roads have been built in Cuba since 1959, more than four times the rural road network existing in that year (10 100 km). This road infrastructure is conducted to guarantee the economic and social development of the rural areas, to enhance the life quality of the population and to diminish the differences amongst countryside and city, and the rural population exodus toward cities. The Public Consultation is not used in Cuba as a method to define what road infrastructure projects should be built in the country, though these ones should be backed by the economic development plans, mainly those industrial, agricultural and touristic ones. To elaborate these plans state-owned entities and population requests, needs determined by integral studies and foresights of possible contingencies, among other things, are taken into account. The technology transfer is one of the ways to keep, update and develop the technical level attained in Cuba in this sector, which has been at government, organization, group of people and individual level. For that reason its utility, the transfer policy, needs, success possibility, the subject to transfer and its adaptability to the conditions required by the country are considered among its general conditions. The National Road Centre (CNV), appertaining to the Ministry of Transport, elaborated in 2001 a procedure or methodological guide for realizing economic (cost-benefit) studies of the road infrastructures, which presently is used at national level. This has allowed to attain through the most used economic indexes, the most efficient alternative from the point of view of the individual project, as well as to prepare lists for priorities with regard to the execution of the new roads and reconstruction of those existing ones, whereby the budgets can be used in a more rational and efficient manner. For the covering abstract see ITRD E135448.
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