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The importance of resilience and the impact of Covid-19 on the road sector, the focus of the latest issues of Routes/Roads magazine

25 October 2021

The latest issues of PIARC's magazine Routes/Roads 389 & 390, elaborated with the help and knowledge of PIARC's Technical Committees 3.3 "Asset management" and 1.4 "Climate change and Resilience of Roads Networks" and the PIARC Covid Response Team are now available online, in paper version and downloadable as a PDF.

The importance of resilience and the impact of Covid-19 on the road sector, the focus of the latest issues of Routes/Roads magazine

Enjoy the latest issues of our Routes/Roads magazine with an interesting compilation of articles focused on the most current issues on roads and road transport. In addition, you will find interviews with young professionals, as well as a section dedicated to the history of roads. For only 60 euros per year you will have access to all the content of Routes/Roads publications. Don't hesitate and subscribe now!

Routes/Roads 389, published in early July 2021, addresses the important issue of Road Network Resilience and how it should be considered in infrastructure design. The subject is addressed through a wide range of examples from various fields of road engineering: design and management of the networks themselves, bridges, tunnels, geotechnics, from countries with very different climatic and geographical conditions.

Routes/Roads 390, published in September 2021, is dedicated to “Roads and Covid”. This issue compilated a series of articles focus on different topics related to how Covid-19 has affected the road and transport sector. The impact of the pandemic on road projects, how it has affected the economy and employment, how countries are mobilizing funds to relaunch their economy through public investment and how to organize them equitably and efficiently are just some of the topics covered on the latest issue of Routes/Roads.


A new format

Routes/Roads, PIARC's quarterly magazine, has been published since the Association's origins in 1909. It has undergone many changes in its form, its editorial languages, and now its mode of distribution: since March 2021, the magazine is published mainly in electronic format, PDF or HTML. Only the readers who have explicitly expressed their wish to receive a paper version in a questionnaire sent out several times in 2020 by the General Secretariat will continue to do so.


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