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Reconnaissance Survey of International Road Connections in the Baghdad Pact Area July-November 1957
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1957-01-01
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Alternative Title:Reconnaissance Survey of International Road Connections in the Baghdad Pact Area Turkey-Iraq Cizre-Zakho Turkey-Iran Sivelan-Bicirge-Rezaiyeh-Bijar-Zanjan July-November 1957
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Abstract:The Project Agreements between the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) and the governments of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran provide for a reconnaissance survey of two routes: one from Cizre, Turkey, via Silopi to Zakho, Iraq; the other from Sivelan, Turkey, via Bicirge, Turkey, and Rezaiyeh, Iran, around the southern end of Lake Urmia to connect with the existing Tabriz-Tehran road. The Service Agreement between the International Cooperation Administration and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads sets forth the following objectives: 1. Provide a party of highway engineers to make a reconnaissance survey of the proposed highway connections taking into account any existing roads, and to propose construction or rehabilitation methods that will result in a highway in keeping with existing standards of the countries involved; 2. Propose design standards for use in planning and constructing the road; 3. Prepare a complete estimate of construction or rehabilitation, and a description of the recommended improvements, by countries and sections, divided into cost of small drainage structures, bridges, earthwork, and surfacing; 4. Prepare an estimate for on-the-job training, including recommended categories, and number of people, possible to train economically; 5. Prepare an estimate of cost of engineering services for surveys, design, and supervision of construction of the proposed highways, including on-the-job training of local engineering personnel; 6. Study and report on: the availability of local labor; housing; materials; equipment; camp and office sites proposed for the benefit of prospective engineers and construction contractors; and establish aggregate sources needed along the highway within reasonable haul distances; 7. Submit a list of engineering equipment necessary to adequately survey, design and supervise the proposed construction, taking into account available engineering equipment; 8. Submit a list of construction equipment necessary to construct the proposed highway, taking in account available construction equipment; 9. Prepare a report that shall include all the information listed above, and any additional information which the survey indicates may be of value, so that the report may be used as a basis for invitations of proposals from engineering and construction firms; 10. Make any other related studies that may be required in the immediate area or contiguous countries. To gather the necessary information, three men were detailed by the Washington office to this work. They were assisted, as necessary and desirable, by members of the staffs of the existing division offices of the Bureau of Public Roads in Turkey and Iran. Mr. Prentice Julian arrived in Ankara, Turkey on July 19, 1957, to assume charge of the survey. Mr. Rudolph Roy arrived in Ankara on August 10 and Mr. Herman Gaines joined the group on September 16, Mr. F. H. MacElfresh was detailed from the Iran office of the Bureau of Public Roads and is largely responsible for the work in Iran. Both of the routes were carefully reconnoitered in the field and contiguous roads were observed. Available air-photos were studied and supplemental information acquired from the Ministries of Public Works in the countries involved.
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