Loreto:Via Costa Norte - Iquitos Transport and Rural Development Project
Disciplines
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Masterplanning
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Transportation
Companies
Dorsch International Consultants
Client
Corporación Departamental de Desarrollo de Loreto
Duration
From 1983 to 1984
Project Activities
- Quantification of the regional development potential
- Prediction of corresponding traffic flows for road, rail, river and air
- Overall estimates of construction, operation and maintenance costs for both road and rail transportation systems
- Quantification of road user costs
- Overall estimate of tariffs (for the railroad system)
- Cost benefit analysis based on transport and development benefits alike
- Selection of most suitable corridor(s) and transpor tsystem(s)
- Investigation of financial, economic and ecological criteria
- Determination of a regional development programme with the emphasis on agricultural and forestry development schemes in rural areas.
Contact
Dorsch International Consultants GmbH
München (Headquarters)
80687 München
Germany
Phone: +49 89 5797-0
Fax: +49 89 5797-800
E-Mail: info@dorsch.de
Description
Prefeasibility study to establish how the Departamento Loreto can best be connected to the national and international transportation network and to investigate whether a road or a railroad project would be more suitable as well as to determine regional and rural development schemes for settlement within the area of influence of the project. Loreto (capital Iquitos) is situated at the upper reaches of the Amazon, yet despite rich mineral reserves and considerable agricultural and forestry potential the area is connected neither by road nor by railroad to the national and international transportation network.
Therefore, corridors for road and railroad had to be identified, with the main emphasis of the assessment and selection initially being placed on transport and economic criteria.