A 71.2 F 290.8 Junction with 49-mile-long Willow-Fishhook (Hatcher Pass) Road to Independence Mine Historical Park (32 miles east). The Parks Highway shares a common alignment with the Glenn Highway (Alaska Route 1) between Anchorage and Wasilla, where it continues north as Alaska Route 3 to Fairbanks. An exception to this is the generally high quality data that exists for some outcome indicators for the TCH in Banff NP. Managers are interested in and undertake initiatives to improve efficiency and economy. There is considerable variation in business unit expenditures, either by kilometre managed or by vehicle serviced. The following report is a summary of the data collected in the Central Region from 1999 through 2001. PMU reports are generally completed every three years and provide a rating of pavement sections on a scale of 0 to 100 (i.e., the Pavement Condition Index or PCI). One of the key factors behind the creation of the HSC was to generate economies of scale of more than $1 million.
AKDOT has partnered with Waze through their Waze for Cities program to publish Waze reported information on the AK511 website. Parks Canada ownership of the highway segments is mandated by legislation, but direct operation of the highways is not required either in legislation or for delivery of the Agency’s mandate or strategic objective. In the following section we review relevant data for each of the three outcomes, highlight best practices drawn from the TCH twinning project in Banff NP and identify reported barriers to routine use of outcomes measures. Effective management of highways, either to avoid road closures or to maintain a given highway condition profile, needs to take these factors into account when planning and implementing compensating maintenance and/or recapitalization activities. View the real time traffic map with travel times, traffic accident details, traffic cameras and other road conditions. For this reason, Forillon NP and Wood Buffalo NP were chosen because of the delivery of the operations and maintenance by a provincial or territorial partner, one through a fixed cost per km model (Forillon), and one that is cost-recovery (Territory). In theory the Agency can report on whether and to what extent the condition is being maintained but has not done so in the past.
Radio dispatch located in Jasper and Banff is integral to highways monitoring and emergency response. Office of Internal Audit and Evaluation Parks Canada. The total length for the TCH in Banff reflects 59.8 kms (doubled) for the twinned portion and 23.1 kms for the non twinned portion. The Agency is however prepared to accept that not all highways will be maintained in good or fair condition as implied by its second condition target. Have alternative delivery approaches been considered? Source: Salary Management System, Finance Branch. Ownership and operation of highways is not logically related to, or required, either to advance the Agency’s core mandate or current strategic objective. Americans and Canadians are allowed to cross the land border every day to perform essential work or for other urgent reasons. As well, in response to Mountain Parks Field Units’ requirements, $500k was provided to improve levels of summer maintenance for internal park roads and day use areas. Ownership and operation of the highway is linked to the Agency’s mandate and strategic outcome. These reports had found that the road management and operations, segregated by FU, had varying levels of services, standards and practices. Are standards applied? 31,957); all services. The information in the DPR is reviewed annually by the Office of the Auditor General, who provides negative assurance that nothing has come to their attention during the course of the review that would impact on the fairness and reliability of the information presented. Many of the issues identified with through highways management also apply to assets in general as documented in the Evaluation of Parks Canada’s Asset Management Program (2009). The temperatures vary from an average –11.9 °C in January to an average 16.6 °C in July. Recommendations for the current evaluation were developed so as not to duplicate the recommendations and management action plans resulting from the prior evaluation of asset management. A 98.8 F 263.2 Gas station and Subway. The Chief Administrative Officer, in conjunction with the DGs Eastern and Western/Northern Canada, should provide policy, directives, or guidance with respect to operation, maintenance and construction standards for highways. A 99.5 F 262.5 His & Hers phone 907-733-2415; restaurant (known for their bread pudding), gas, diesel, camping. Best Practice: Measuring Quality of Operations and Maintenance.
The trend in pavement condition is clearly downward although there are exceptions such as the improvement in overall condition in the Prairies region[12] largely due to the recapitalization of the Elk Island Parkway in 2009, which raised its PCI from 32 in 2004 to 79. A 247 F 115 Junction with Otto Lake Road west; Black Diamond Resort (golf, dining, backcountry adventures) at Mile 0.8. Townsite Food Mart to west, open 24 hours, offers groceries, food, gas, diesel; post office. 3. salt, sand, fuel spent on highways) across the system. The accompanying picture shows one associated asset, a snow shed in Glacier National Park, intended to reduce the risk of road closure due to avalanches. Home > Library > Reports > Internal Audit and Evaluation Documents > Evaluation of Parks Canadas Through Highway Management, Report Submitted to the Parks Canada Evaluation Committee: December 16, 2010
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The Agency has a long history of managing provincial roads in national parks/national historic sites (i.e., responsibility for the majority of these was acquired prior to 1970) and assumed full responsibility for the upgrades and improvements for the Trans Canada Highway (TCH) components within its sites in 1992, when the federal government rescinded the Trans Canada Highway Act. To what extent is the ownership and operation of highways aligned with Parks Canada’s mandate and objectives and with overall government priorities?
Expectation: Expected operating and maintenance activities occur, outputs are produced and both are logically related to the intended outcomes for the program. Essentially, the GNWT treated this road as any road within its territorial network. A 248.7 F 113.3 HEALY (pop. Parks Canada Agency Strategic Outcome and Program Activity Architecture 2009/2010. Some parks are limiting parking capacity to limit the density of visitors. The Agency owns and manages approximately 1,056km of two-lane equivalent national or provincial numbered highways within the boundaries of national parks or national historic sites. We only identified one instance where management of a field unit had explored the economies of moving to contracting for services where delivery capability already existed. Similarly, we were able to interview several representatives of transportation agencies at the provincial and territorial level and their views of the Agency’s highway operations are well represented. Concerns with accessibility, efficiency and safety of highways, and minimizing environmental impacts are wide spread and pervasive in the Agency, as demonstrated by many documents (e.g., management plans, reports, TB funding submissions), interviews and site visits.
Each year, an addendum is signed by both parties to reflect the new rates per kilometre for both the summer and winter rates. What exactly maintaining 60% of the asset condition meant (i.e., it is often but not always interpreted to mean 60% of the highway length is maintained in good condition). Overall, 86% of the highways are considered to be in poor to fair condition. With temporary funding provided under the Gateway and Border Crossing Fund and Budget 2009, the Agency was granted authority to enter into competitive construction and related goods and services contracts valued at up to $50M, to amend these contracts by up to $5M, to enter into architectural and engineering contracts valued at up to $5M and amend these contracts by up to $500K. 536). The inventory of sections of highways included in the scope of the evaluation is shown in Table 1.
To the extent that these issues are already the subject of evaluation recommendations and management responses from this evaluation, we do not repeat them here. Capital funding still remains under the care of the WBNP. Several studies have taken place.
Overall Finding: Program Design And Delivery.
Although through highways management is identified as a specific sub-activity in the Agency program activity architecture (PAA), it is not a program in the traditional sense of being centrally funded and managed. The dynamics and instability of underlying karst formations along the highway has and will continue to lead to sinkholes and sub-surface voids requiring additional precautionary due diligence in detection (e.g., ground penetrating radar), mitigation and maintenance. 6. The aggregate data on wildlife mortality, injury and collisions for roads and highways are shown in the graph (source: Occurrence Tracking System Wildlife Mortality, Injury and Collisions, 2004-05 to 2008-09).
2,400 feet). A 238.5 F 123.5 Huge complex to west is Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge. Capital projects associated with the sub-activity include twinning segments of highways, adding animal over or under passes, roadside fencing, and other new infrastructure such as culverts, ditches, signs, truck turnarounds and weigh scales. Please visit, For-hire vehicle services are considered essential services and as such will remain active.
Expectation: Managers are interested in and undertake initiatives to improve efficiency and economy.