Twinning of the Trans Canada Highway through the province of New Brunswick and the contracting of operations, maintenance, and rehabilitation to the private sector.

In response to the growth in traffic, the high proportion of commercial vehicles, the need to improve highway safety and the demands of the economy, the Province decided to twin the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) from Quebec to Nova Scotia in the early 1990's. On the Fredericton-Moncton Highway Project (204 km), NBDOT retained a Developer/Operator to design, build, finance, operate, maintain and rehabilitate the highway for a thirty-year period. NBDOT has recently retained a Developer/Operator to design, build and finance 98 km of TCH, and to operate, maintain and rehabilitate a total of 275 km for 28 years. This new highway is scheduled to open in November 2007. The Province has limited its role to auditing the performance of the developers and operators. This transfer of risk and responsibility has required NBDOT staff to adjust to a new way of managing the highway system. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E211426.