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Dear readers,
The World Road Association (PIARC) started with the first ever World Road Congress. In those days (1908) convening a congress was indeed the most convenient manner to exchange best practice and confront points of view, even if that meant traveling for weeks or months to be able to meet your peers. We have continued this tradition until now and are proud to organise the 26th World Road Congress in Abu Dhabi in 2019, jointly with the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Transport. Actually, congresses are a necessity now more than ever, even as information seems to be readily available at a click of a button. Congresses enable face-to-face discussions on any topic. They enable discovery of topics and issues that you did not know were related to your projects. They allow delegates to focus on road and road transport for a few days and to allocate some precious time to out of the box thinking, which is both a rarity and a necessity at a time of ever-increasing demands and sources of distraction.
>> Further information
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Patrick Malléjacq
Secretary General
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Seattle (USA), 30-31 May 2018
Hosted by Bijan Khaleghi (Washington State Department of Transportation) and Angela Brady (Deputy Director with Waterfront Design, Seattle), this meeting was an opportunity to catch up on the preparation of technical reports, the Road Tunnels manual and the next issue of the Routes / Roads review dedicated to the operational and safety aspects of road tunnels. The committee ended its meeting with a visit to a two-tier, 3.2 km road tunnel in Seattle, due to open by the end of 2018.
>> Find out more about Technical Committee D.5 - Road tunnels
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Brussels (Belgium), 16-18 May 2018
PIARC TC A.3 recently convened in Brussels. The meeting opened with some remarks by Tom Roelants, director-general of the Flemish Road and Traffic Agency, followed by a message from TC A.3 chairman Dr. Benekos (Greece). The principal object of the meeting was to finalize the résumés and draft reports now in preparation. Each participant workgroup gave an account of how its own work was progressing. The sixth meeting of TC A.3 is planned to take place in Vietnam.
>> Find out more about TC A.3 - Risk Management
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Fire safety in tunnels depends on an amalgam of systems and procedures designed to achieve the best outcome in the event of an incident. In the case of new tunnels, it may influence the choice of tunnel configuration or the use of additional systems to mitigate consequences [...]
>> Display the technical report
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Based on a comprehensive investigation in the form of interviews with public road administrations and private sector concessionaires, a large quantity of information on good practice in budgetary assessment [...]
>> Display the technical report
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This report aims to provide some answers with respect to risk-based management for bridges. It discusses the integration of risk-based analyses into the bridge management systems of several countries and gives examples of formal methods of risk-based analyses on certain types of structures [...]
>> Display the technical report
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PIARC Events
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Meeting Technical Committee Winter Service
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PIARC will be there
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September 17-21, 2018
Copenhagen (Denmark)
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