A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Thursday regarding collaboration in Highway Research & Engineering Technology between the National Highway Authority (NHA) Highway Research Training Centre (HRTC) and three leading engineering universities.
According to a press release, the universities were the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Islamabad, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, and University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.
National Highway Authority (NHA) Planning member Sabir Hassan, UET Taxila Vice Chancellor Dr M Abbas and the NUST director signed the MoU. Speaking on the occasion, NHA Chairman Muhammad Ali Gardezi reiterated the commitment to realise highway, motorway and expressway projects in a well-coordinated manner, as 98% of the country’s traffic was associated to the road network.
He termed the availability of a reliable and durable highway network, a dire need of the time to meet the domestic and regional transit trade requirements. He said that the NHA desired to further expand the scope of collaboration with all the universities of Pakistan. The objective of such endeavors was to build, operate and maintain a safe and sound road network in the country, he concluded.