The Committee on Asset Management (Technical Committee D.1) of the World Road Association - PIARC, through its representatives Ricardo Solorio Murillo (Mexico) and Carlos Ruiz Trevizan (Chile), the HDMGlobal consortium and the Cement and Concrete Institute of Chile (ICH) jointly organize the "International Conference on HDM-4: A meeting point for road infrastructure managers". This event will take place in the city of Santiago, Chile, from 26th to 28th September 2017.

HDM-4 (Highway Development Management) is a management tool to support decision-making in road planning, evaluation and conservation, its main field of application being the management of road networks mainly at strategic and tactical level. It is one of the most well-known and widely used tools to support road management decisions.

The conference will be a great opportunity to exchange best practices between users of the tool as well as decision makers, consultants, academics and project managers working on road infrastructure. The participants will deal with topics such as the development of the HDM-4 software, the regional and international experience on its application and calibration, as well as the implementation of sustainable policies for Asset Management.

In addition to the congress, several workshops will be held on Thursday, 28 and Friday, September 29, 2017.