Series - Knowledge and learning

Conferences 1982 - International Conference for Planning Highway Investment for Developing Countr... Conferences 1980 - International Road Federation Fourth African Highway Conference, January 20-25... Conferences 1977 - Pan African Conference on Highway Maintenance and Rehabilitation, Ghana - Nove... Conferences 1976 - Seventeenth World Road Congress, Sidney, Australia - October 8-15, 1983 - Reports Conference - Internal Road Federation [IRF] Third African Highway Conference, Abidjan - October 2... Highway Conferences and Courses - Transportation Research Board [TRB] - Correspondence - January ... Highway Conferences and Courses - Conference on Asphalt Pavements for Southern Africa [CAPSA] - C... Highway Conferences and Courses - American Society for Testing and Materials [ASTM] - Symposium -... Highway Conferences and Courses - Seminar on Highway Design and Maintenance - HDMIII Model - Octo... Highway Conferences and Courses -EMPTR - Divisional Workshop - May 1986 USA - Highway Conferences and Courses - Strategic Highway Research Program [SHRP] - Correspondenc... Highway Conferences and Courses - Federal Highway Administration [FHWA] - National Highway Instit... Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops, on Transportation  - Volume 6 Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops, on Transportation  - Volume 5 Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops, on Transportation  - Volume 4 Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops, on Transportation  - Volume 3 Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops, on Transportation  - Volume 2 Bank Staff Training in Transportation - Bank Staff Grading Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops, on Transportation  - Volume 1 Highway Conferences and Courses - Conferences - Correspondence

Identity area

Reference code

WB IBRD/IDA TRA-01

Title

Knowledge and learning

Date(s)

  • 1976 - 1991 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

9.33 linear feet of textual records

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Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Records were transferred to the World Bank Group Archives by the Transport Development Division (INUTD) in 1992 according to approved records retention schedules.

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Scope and content

Series consists of records relating to seminars, conferences, training, and workshop events organized or attended by staff of the Transportation Department (TRP) and Infrastructure and Urban Development Department Transport Development Division (INUTD). Records relate to various transportation-related topics and event planning records. Records concern the attendance and participation of transportation sector staff in external and internal conferences, seminars, symposiums, training courses, and lectures. Many records relate to the activities of Senior Highway Engineer William D. O. Paterson, Ports and Aviation Adviser John R. Lethbridge and Principal Transport Economist Clell G. Harral. Record types include course materials, draft and final conference papers prepared by Bank staff, agenda, lists of events, list of participants and attendance lists, internal memoranda including back-to-office reports, letters from external organizations, speeches, handwritten notes, summary evaluations, and external reports,brochures, and other printed material.

Topics covered in the records include harbors and port technology, port maintenance in developing countries, global shipping, Port of Rouen training course, liner shipping policy developments, inland water and coastal and barge transportation review, England and France Channel Tunnel (informally, Chunnel) project, Port of Baltimore dredging works, American public works and infrastructure, International Road Federation (IRF) African Highway Conferences, rural roads, urban transport, highways and road pavement design, pavement performance and maintenance, Strategic Highway Research Program, and air and rail transport.

Two files that relate to planning Bank transport staff training and Bank staff grading contain mostly internal memoranda and discuss internal and external sector staff training needs including regional participation, opportunities, and preparation.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Original order has been maintained. Records are arranged by subject.

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Conditions governing access

Records are subject to the World Bank Access to Information Policy.

Conditions governing reproduction

Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.

Language of material

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

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Related units of description

  • See Records of the Transport Sector - Governance, management, and oversight (WB IBRD/IDA TRA-03) for records related to collaboration with external organizations.

  • See Central Files - Operational sector files (WB IBRD/IDA ADMCF-07) for records related to the Bank's transport sector that were managed in the central files system from the time of the Transportation Division (PRJTP) and successor departments from 1965 to mid-1987. Included are records concerning transport seminars, training, and other knowledge events.

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Internal World Bank Group Archives rules

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Dates of creation revision deletion

29 March 2024

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