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March 2025

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EDITORIAL

PIARC plays an important role in the networking of infrastructure organisations. PIARC's focus has changed time and again over the last few decades and will continue to face new challenges in the future. In addition to maintaining the technical topics and the very close cooperation between high-income countries and low-income countries with all the associated challenges, other topics will also have to be increasingly addressed in PIARC in the future. Topics such as climate change, diversity and resilience of infrastructures [...]

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Alexander Walcher
Vice-President of PIARC

PIARC PUBLICATIONS

Technical Report

Emerging Freight Transport Technologies 

This report, developed by the Technical Committee 2.3 Emerging Freight Technology Working Group, reviews global trends in emerging freight technologies and categorizes them into basic freight technologies, vehicle technologies, alternative transport modes, automated freight, and management systems. The report highlights that technologies like autonomous trucks, delivery robots, air drones, and truck parking systems show promise but vary in their stages of development and readiness for implementation, [...]

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Technical Report

Increasing Resilience of Earth Structures to Natural Hazards 

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the work conducted by Working Group 1 of PIARC Technical Committee 4.3 under the 2020-2023 Work Program. It concludes that resilience is a concept applicable to earth structures, considering the entire life cycle of the assets, from the design phase through to construction and management. It identifies specific recommendations and directions, and their application is discussed with case study and examples.

>> Read the Technical Report here

HIGHLIGHTS

Call for abstracts for the 17th World Winter Service and Road Resilience Congress is now closed 

With 431 abstracts from 65 countries, this call for abstracts has become the most successful one since the Congresses held in Calgary and Gdansk. 

Authors who submitted their work are requested to wait until 15 April 2025 when the notice of assessment will be released. After this evaluation, the full-text articles are expected to be sent by 15 July 2025. Finally, the assessment of the complete articles will conclude by 31 October 2025.

>> Read more about the paper submission process

The Catalan edition of the PIARC Road Dictionary is now live! 

We are pleased to announce the launch of the PIARC Road Dictionary in Catalan, the official language of the Principality of Andorra. 

The PIARC Committee on Terminology, in collaboration with members of the Andorran National Committee and with the General Secretariat, have worked together to integrate Catalan into this essential multilingual terminology database! With approximately 16,300 terms and expressions, Catalan became the 38th language in the family.

We invite you to contribute online to help us upgrade and extend this Dictionary, by submitting your proposals to the Committee on Terminology for further consideration.

>> Discover the PIARC Road Dictionary today!

PIARC International Workshop on "Accessibility and mobility in urban and periurban areas" 

Save the date and join us for the PIARC International Workshop organised by the Technical Committee 2.1

Timisoara (Romania), April 7, 2025

The event will explore the development of urban railway and elucidate the foundations of accessibility and mobility in a periurban area. Speakers from the national road authorities of Romania and Austria will tackle the issues of investments into urban areas and impact of climate change on asphalt and concrete roads.

>> For more information, please visit this link

Your input matters: Join the survey on achieving carbon neutrality in road transport 

The surveys carried out by the Technical Committees contribute to the preparation of the final reports. 

Currently, Committee 3.5 "Road infrastructure for road transport decarbonization" is gathering data on road authorities' strategies for achieving carbon neutrality. The results will help formulate practical recommendations for an upcoming report.

>> Take part in the survey here until 30 April 2025

PIARC at the UIC event: Strengthening transport resilience through collaboration

At the "Beyond the Tracks: Building Partnerships and Transport System Resilience" event organised by the International Union of Railways (UIC), PIARC's Secretary General, Patrick Malléjacq, highlighted the importance of partnerships in enhancing transport resilience. The session focused on the impact of extreme events on transportation, emergency response, and recovery, followed by a discussion on multi-modal freight logistics.

Paris (France), March 12, 2025

PIARC's Secretary General also presented the work of PIARC's Technical Committees 1.4 "Planning Resilience of Road Networks" and 1.5 "Disaster Management," as well as preparations for the upcoming 17th World Winter Service and Road Resilience Congress.

New translation: German Testing Regulation for Polishing Value of Coarse Aggregates 

The German National Committee has translated into English the 2025 edition of the Technical Testing Regulations for Aggregates in Road Construction (TP Gestein-StB), Part 5.4.4: Polishing Value of Coarse Aggregates Using the Wehner/Schulze Test Method (PWS). This part of the regulation describes the procedure for determining the polishing value (PWSd/D) of coarse aggregates using the Wehner/Schulze test method, which evaluates the resistance of aggregates to polishing. The method applies to test particles of various sizes (2/5.6 mm, 5.6/8 mm, 8/11 mm, and 11/16 mm).

For equipment specifications, please refer to TP Asphalt-StB, Part 49.

>> For more information, please visit the website

UPCOMING EVENTS

Meeting of the Technical Committee 1.1 "Performance of Transport Administrations" (reserved to piarc members only)

March 26-27, 2025,
Vienna (Austria)

Meeting of the Technical Committee 3.4 "Environmental Sustainability of Road Infrastructure and Transport" (reserved to piarc members only)

March 26-27, 2025,
Vienna (Austria)

International Workshop "Performance of Transport Administrations"

March 27, 2025,
Vienna (Austria)

Meeting of the Technical Committee 3.3 "Asset Management” (reserved to piarc members only)

April 07-08, 2025,
Arusha (tanzania)

Meeting of the Technical Committee 3.2 "Winter Service" (reserved to piarc members only)

April 07-08, 2025,
Astana (Kazakhstan)

Piarc Executive Committee meeting

April 07-08, 2025,
Astana (Kazakhstan)

International Workshop "Roads for Accessibility and Mobility in Urban and Periurban Areas" 

April 07-09, 2025,
Timisoara (Romania)

Meeting of the Technical Committee 2.1 "Roads for Accessibility and Mobility in Urban and Periurban Areas" (reserved to piarc members only)

April 07-09, 2025,
Timisoara (Romania)

International Seminar "Transport Asset Management" 

April 09 -11, 2025,
Arusha (Tanzania)

International Seminar "Road Winter Service: practices, innovation, and extreme weather conditions" 

April 09 - 10, 2025,
Astana (Kazakhstan)

International Seminar "Sustainable and Resilient Unpaved Earthworks and Roads in the face of Climate Change" 

April 14 -16, 2025,
Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)

Meeting of road statistic committee (reserved to piarc members only)

April 14 - 16, 2025,
Lille (France)

International Seminar "Climate Resilient Pavements"

April 28 - 30, 2025,
Tunis (Tunisia)

International Seminars "Roads as Catalysts for Sustainable and Inclusive Development" 

April 28-30, 2025,
Guadalajara (Mexico)

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