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- 1976 - 1991 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
9.33 linear feet of textual records
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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.
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English
French
Spanish
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Related units of description
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See Records of the Transport Sector - Governance, management, and oversight (WB IBRD/IDA TRA-03) for records related to collaboration with external organizations.
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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