Today, a meeting was held at the Federal Road Agency under the chairmanship of the head of the department Roman Novikov, the topic of which was the modernization of the road management system in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by Deputy Director of the Department of Road Management of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Renat Gainetdinov, General Director of the Association "RADOR", Chairman of the Public Council at the Federal Road Agency Igor Starygin, President of the Association of Producers and Consumers of asphalt mixtures "R.O.S.ASPHALT", Chairman of the Technical Committee for Standardization No. 418 "Road Management" Nikolay Bystrov, Director of FSBI "Rosdortechnology" Sergey Golodny, Deputy General Director of the FAA "ROSDORNII" Pavel Ruchev, Managing Partner of LLC "Siberian Integration Systems" Denis Zhirkov.
According to the head of Rosavtodor, large-scale work has been carried out in recent years to develop quality control mechanisms in subordinate institutions, which has significantly improved the quality of work at federal facilities the road network.
"The May decree of the President of 2017 clearly outlined the tasks related to the need to bring the regional highway network to a regulatory state that will bring them closer to the level of federal highways," Roman Novikov noted.
In accordance with the instruction of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin to declare 2022 the Year of Quality, the Federal Road Agency is implementing a set of measures aimed at modernizing the road management system in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within the framework of the federal project "Regional and Local Road Network" of the national project.
One of the keys to the successful implementation of the national project "Safe High-quality Roads" is the multi-stage control of its activities at all stages of work. Specialists of Rosavtodor together with colleagues from the FAU "ROSDORNII", FSBI "Rosdortechnology" and LLC "Siberian Integration Systems" ― the developer of the operational management system "Etalon" ― analyzed the results of the work of the subjects for the previous three years, and taking into account the existing experience, on based on the data received, proposals were presented for the modernization of the road quality management system in the regions.
"Quality is not only laying, but also work planning, financial discipline, and after that — the organization of work from the customer and contractor at the facilities," said Radik Farazutdinov, head of the Department for Regional Development and Implementation of the National project. ― We have coordinated this program with regional teams, with the association of territorial customers "RADOR". Most of the subjects of the program have already been reviewed and approved."
The program touches on the financial model, principles of formation, quality of planning of regional road activity programs, socio-economic approaches to the development of road infrastructure, the development of a backbone road network through the implementation of regional projects.
According to Radik Farazutdinov, the successful implementation of the updated program will allow regional road builders to reach a new level of implementation of the national project activities. "We will get a result that will ensure long-term efficiency from the investments in road programs of subjects of funds," the speaker noted.
Monitoring and support will be carried out through institutions subordinate to Rosavtodor, and administration will be carried out through the Etalon operational management system, which has been working with the national project and other road programs for a long time.
To date, the program has been launched in three Russian regions: Saratov and Volgograd regions, as well as in the Republic of Kalmykia. According to experts, the first results can be seen by June of this year.
The head of the Federal Road Agency Roman Novikov focused on the fact that the complex of measures carried out does not lead to an increase in inspections in the subjects of the Russian Federation, as this, according to him, will allow achieving only local results at individual facilities, but not getting a long-term effect for customers, contractors in the future.
"Our goal is to form effective management in the road sector of the subjects of the Russian Federation at all levels of the budget system, in administrative—territorial entities," he stressed head of Rosavtodor.
Recall, thanks to the implementation of the national project "Safe High-quality Roads", more than 48 thousand km of highways and highways have been brought to a standard state in three years. In 2022, road works will be carried out on 4.7 thousand objects with a total length of more than 15 thousand km.