Integrated projects planning for economic corridors and regional economic impacts. The newly built 50 km section of the A380 highway is located along CAREC (Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation) Corridor 2 which has two border-crossing points (i) Termez at the Afghanistan border and (ii) Daut-ata at the Kazakhstan border. The remaining sections of the A380 highway are being improved under ongoing projects and future projects planned by the government. Due to better road conditions and increased road capacity, the travel time on the project road has been reduced by over 60%, from 90 minutes to only 35 minutes and overall on the corridor it has impacted 20% travel time reduction and annual average daily traffic increase five folds within last 5 years. Future projects should also be planned similarly for integrated road sections on a corridor to achieve optimum regional economic impacts, instead of developing only isolated part of a corridor.
CAREC Corridor 2 Road Investment Program - Tranche 1