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NEWSLETTER N°112
January 2023
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For the beginning of the year 2023, our President Nazir ALLI shares his best wishes in video. Watch his warm message!
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N° 395 —
Road Network Operation / Intelligent Transportation Systems The year
ended with an issue of Routes/Roads on road network operation and intelligent
transportation systems. This issue
highlights various news items, including: - Decarbonisation,
a Key Goal to Ensure Sustainable Roads in France - PIARC
and IENE’s Cooperation to Mainstream Biodiversity and Road Infrastructure for
Tomorrow’s Sustainable Mobility in France - Inclusion
of Women in Non-Traditional Jobs within the Scope of Rural Road Improvement
Work in Paraguay In this
issue, the following features are presented: - Efforts
in MaaS Promotion in Japan - The
Road to Mobility as a Service - Guidelines
to Develop MaaS Services in Italy - Future
of Transport Context in the UK - Singapore’s
Expressways Management through ITS Solutions >> Download this issue of Routes/Roads <<
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PIARC took part in the 102nd TRB annual meeting
8-12
January, Washington, DC (USA) As most
years, PIARC had a strong presence at the USA’s Transportation Research Board
Annual Meeting. With more than 10 000 registered participants, i.e.
pre-pandemic levels, it confirmed its position as a landmark event for the
international transport community and indicated that people are definitely
eager to meet in-person again.
Many PIARC Committee experts from all over the
world joined sessions as speakers or panelists. Among others, Gina Alstom (USA)
and Pascal Rossigny (France) presented PIARC’s ongoing work on decarbonisation
and on electric road systems in a workshop dedicated to decarbonisation. That
workshop was co-presided by Patrick Mallejacq (Secretary General) and involved
several of our partner organisations. It will be very useful for what is now be
a priority topic for our Association. Meetings
were organised with Victoria Sheehan, the new executive director of TRB, and
with Gloria Shepherd, the new executive director of the Federal Highways
Administration and PIARC’s First delegate for the USA, in order to review
projects and priorities.
Last but not least, a PIARC stand on the
exhibitors acted as a meeting point for our experts and partners. We were able
to successfully promoted the upcoming World Road Congress as well as our many
reports and outputs.
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Carbon Neutrality of The Road Sector The highways sector
faces the competing opportunities and threats of making the road system deliver
its benefits in a decarbonised world and of supporting economic growth. Therefore,
PIARC asked Maple Consulting to analyse how the road sector was facing the
challenges of decarbonisation, addressing the following questions: - what
contributions can the road sector make without impacting customer service? - what areas are
within the control of road agencies to reduce emissions and? - how can we
make sure solutions are implementable by low to middle income countries? The project identified that much early progress has been made across all
development levels to establish policies and pledges to decarbonise road
transport. A number of strategic and technology options have been identified
based on actual implementation in various countries, on construction and
maintenance of road infrastructure, decarbonisation of road user vehicles,
operations on the road network, road user choices and carbon offsetting. This
confirms that road administration and operators across the globe are already
striving to address decarbonization. Available solutions can already be
replicated by their peers.
>> Download the report <<
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Now available on the @PIARC_Roads website The presentations of the International Workshop "Bridge
Inspection" held in Madrid last September are now available on the
@PIARC_Roads website. It was attended by 25 members of PIARC TC 4.2
"Bridges" and over 200 participants.
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@NASEMTRB TRBAM2023 Oads do play a major role in ecarbonization
Thank
you Gina Ahlstrom @TheFHWAOnline for presenting best practice, recommendations
and case studies from our recent @PIARC_Roads study!
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While winter
maintenance in rural areas is a relatively well-known topic, it is less so in
urban areas, although there are more and more presentations on this topic at
PIARC winter maintenance conferences and a specific winter maintenance theme is
proposed.
>> Read here
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The collection of case
studies report on electric road systems (ERS) provides an overview of the
activities of PIARC Task Force 2.2 to date. This includes an overview of the
tasks and activities of the Task Force as well as the progress made to date in
terms of collection and review [...]
>> Read here
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Resilient Infrastructure is the fourth
Strategic Theme defined by PIARC in the 2020-2023 Strategic Plan. During this
cycle, Technical Committee 4.2 Road Bridges was assigned 5 issues. The fifth
issue, titled “Damage-Resilient Bridges in Seismic Areas”, was consistent [...]
>> Read here
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