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Local Road Management Manual 59 3. Planning approaches for the local road network The development and management of local roads is an important mandate of the LGU, for which signiifcant capital investments are required. However, local ifscal capacity is always limited and resources have to be prioritized including those for the local road sector. The conifguration of the local road network will greatly assist the LGUs in prioritizing resources for the local road sector. Presently, there are no speciifc guidelines on planning the road network of an LGU issued by national government agencies having oversight functions over LGUs. However, there are certain principles on local road network planning that have already been proposed in general by other guidelines. 3.1 Basic Functional Hierarchy The local road network of the LGU may be developed in terms of the functional uses that the local roads provide. There are two basic utilities (functions) that a local road may provide: a. Accessibility. This refers to the ability of the road to connect people and goods to a land use or an activity site. If a local road provides connection to a large number of settlements, commerce and industries, then the subject road provides high accessibility; and b. Mobility. This pertains to the ability of the road to move people and goods between different activity sites or land uses. If a road can move people and goods very fast, then the subject road provides high mobility. Levels of access and mobility are inversely related when looking at basic hierarchy of functions of a road. This basic functional road hierarchy as shown in Figure 3.5 may be applied to a local road network.

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