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Revision as of 16:32, 17 June 2004 by Taxman (talk | contribs) (wikified)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Asian Highway (AH) project is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and the United Nations ESCAP to improve the highway systems in Asia. It is one of the three pillars of Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project, endorsed by the ESCAP commission at its forty-eighth session in 1992, comprising Asian Highway, Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) and facilitation of land transport projects. The AH project was initiated in 1959 with the aim of promoting the development of intenational road transport in the region. During the first phase of the project (1960-1970) considerable progress was achieved, however, progress slowed down when financial assistance was suspended in 1975. Most recently the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network (IGA) was adopted on 18 November 2003 by the Intergovernmental Meeting and the IGA includes Annex I, which identifies 55 AH routes among 32 member countries in total approximately 140,000 km and Annex II "Classification and Design Standards". A signing ceremony of the IGA will be held during 60th session of ESCAP Commission at Shanghai, China, in April 2004. ESCAP has conducted several projects in cooperation with AH member countries step by step after the endorsement of ALTID in 1992.
AH network (km):
- Afghanistan 4,247;
- Armenia 958;
- Azerbaijan 1,442;
- Bangladesh 1,804;
- Bhutan 1;
- Cambodia 1,339;
- China 25,579;
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,320;
- Georgia 1,154;
- India 11,432;
- Indonesia 3,989;
- Islamic Republic of Iran 11,152;
- Japan 1,200;
- Kazakhstan 13,189;
- Kyrgyzstan 1,695;
- Lao PDR 2,297;
- Malaysia 1,595;
- Mongolia 4,286;
- Myanmar 3,003;
- Nepal 1,321;
- Pakistan 5,377;
- Philippines 3,517;
- Republic of Korea 907;
- Russian Federation 16,869;
- Singapore 19;
- Sri Lanka 650;
- Tajikistan 1,925;
- Thailand 5,112;
- Turkey 5,254;
- Turkmenistan 2,204;
- Uzbekistan 2,966;
- Viet Nam 2,678.
Total 140,479 km