This Area will encompass all topics related to road network operation aspects and those connected to the necessary tools to optimize the resources at stake. It will discuss regulation issues pertaining to legislation in all its aspects; traffic monitoring, assessment and allocation, not only as a management efficiency measure but also as a tool for reasonable planning; different methods to ensure feasible economic resource sources; different alternatives to road financing; interrelation between road and other means of transport; the need for regional integration works, etc. The need to achieve a high transitability level in tertiary networks of developing countries in order to improve connections with the production centers as well as the need to maintain an operation flow between these rural networks and secondary and primary networks call for a deep analysis of the issue. This Commission encompasses all the topics related to rural road problems, from their role definition to the need to structure a system enabling their sustainable financing.

The Commission topics include, but are not limited to:

• Monitoring, Demand Estimates and Traffic Assessment
• Traffic forecast and allotment in road networks
• Traffic management system
• Vehicle weight and dimension monitoring and control
•Road planning and programming
• Road and traffic legislation
• Road economy and financing
• Economic sourcing
• Toll system economy
• Payment by user. Alternatives. Tolls.
• Planning strategies and policies
•Road networks and multimodal transport
• National and regional integration road works 
• Tertiary road networks, function and importance 
• Tertiary network development and improvement
• Low traffic roads
•Tertiary network financing and financials
• Municipal management in tertiary networks
• Relation between private users and the State