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1 2 3 Fahud E Station-Fahud-Yibal Main Road ROP radar Off On Jabal-Fahud D Station Main PDO Camp Gate NO.3-Fahud-QA Road T Junction

Annex to: Oman North Graded Road Improvement Project

Annex 1: The road survey reports from RSST Controller North for the immediate action for improving the layout of the road and the traffic signs

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Document Control Sheet Project Name: Project Number: Document / Report Title: Document / Report Number: Issue Status/Amendment Issue 1 Document reviewed for Public Exhibition Prepared Name: Sasa Kocic Signature: Sasa Kocic Date: 25/01/12 Reviewed Name: Fayel Zarei Signature: FAYEL ZAREI Date: 28/01/12 Signature: Approved Name: Graded roads in Fahud Camp area improvement option appraisal Issue 1 North Graded Road Improvement Project

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Foreword

1.1.1. The purpose of this document is to summarize the work carried out by ONE and RSST with regard to the issues of tackling the road safety issues on the graded roads in Fahud (Fahud E Station-Fahud-Yibal Main Road; ROP radar Off On Jabal-Fahud D Station Main; PDO Camp Gate NO.3-FahudQA Road T Junction), which were indicated as the priority roads for the upgrading into the asphalt road by the on-site engineers and later identified by the TOPSIS method as the priority road for the improvement.

1.1.2. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of the options considered for the improvement of the road makes recommendations to be brought forward to future decision on the approval of the budget for the upgrading the road into the asphalt road or deciding on the different improvement measures to tackle the safety issues raised.

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Road Appraisal
Introduction

2.1.1. The tree roads mentioned are the internal roads in the Fahud Camp, predominantly used by the PDO and related contractors for the day-to-day transport, with approximately 53 vehicles per hour as average using this road. The overall length of these tree roads is 12.3km and considering that these roads are interconnected they basically create a sort of the by-pass in the Fahud area from the Yibal and Lekhwair road toward the Qarn Alam road going through the mostly rolling (hilly) terrain, with several sections on the steep gradients.

Figure 1: Road in relation to the PDO Locations

2.1.2. At present roads are graded roads with varying width, and with safety lanes on the most of the road sections. The road is maintained as per the PDO requirements and the budget constraints, but the proper requirement, as pre the standards and directives it is that the whole road should be resheeted two times in a year. Regular re-sheeting is not carried out, but only the work in relation to the most damaged areas. 2.1.3. As part of the review process the roads indicated by the Operation and Engineering teams have been classified and prioritized by the use of TOPSYS and the criteria of number of RTA, price for upgrade, price for the maintenance and the traffic counts. The tree graded roads came to be in the middle of all-round scope, but as a priority for the Fahud Cluster.

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Priority of the roads by TOPSYS

2.1.4. The RTA data was collected for the previous three years and the analysis of this data has provided the following: There was no RTA recorded on this road in the past three years, only the RTA-s that happened on the approach roads to these roads. There was one RTA (rollover in 2008, on the Fahud E station Main Road-Fahud-Yibal main road) that happened due to the excessive speed on the bend that is situated on a downhill slope.

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Conclusion
The tree graded roads are not required to be asphalted due to the traffic safety issues, but should be considered for upgrading into the asphalt road considering the traffic volumes, cost for the maintenance and the fact that they construct a network of the roads that would remove the transit traffic from the center of Fahud, and they would be especially beneficial in terms of providing a by-pass road for the convoys, heavy traffic etc. (if designed and constructed appropriately).