STRATEGIC MATTER D – MANAGEMENT OF ROAD ASSETS: 'MANAGEMENT OF ROAD ASSETS IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE'

摘要

The National Roads Network, with 25,936 km of roads, makes up 15% of the total lengthof the roads network in Spain and supports more than half the total traffic that circulates onSpanish roads and more than 60% of the heavy traffic. For the maintenance and use ofthese road assets, direct management techniques could be used, such as IntegralConservation by means of contracts with private companies and the direct undertaking ofrenovation and improvement works of infrastructures. Alternatively, indirect methods couldbe used by means of concessions. This report details the motorway concessions togetherwith the new concessions in operation in order to bring the old arterial motorways of thecountry, the first generation motorways, up to the quality standards of the newlyconstructed roads. The report ends by detailing the different actions being taken in order toimprove sustainability in the Spanish road network, whether these are measuresconsidered in the general state legislation or in specific regulations within the field of roadnetworks.