For decades, persistent, crisis, deficient management policies and lack of funds after 10 years of starting democracy, led to under- funding and deterioration of road assets in the country to the point that, in 2004, Albania ended up with the lowest share of paved roads in good condition among countries in Balkan region. A survey carried out in 2007 confirmed that only 24% of the national paved network was in good condition (IRI<4), with a high 62% of roads in poor condition. For the improvement of this road system, fund were initiated from foreign financial organizations, loans and government. During 2008-2015 the level of financing for the improvement of the performance of roads at all three levels, national, regional and local, was increased, using contracts based on maintenance performance or preventive basis contract. However, there was a problem related to the administration and financing of roads during maintenance, which causes a small age of roads to remain in good condition, since the performance contract was signed only for one category of road, for national roads, Results of the good performance for this category forced the management to determine the setting of these performances and for other categories of roads, which in these 15 years have had an improvement of the IRI in the range of 3-4, which is also justified by the increase in traffic and concentration in the roads of some main cities as part of road system.

Performance-based contract; road; management; maintenance.