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Publications Routes/Roads Urban Mobility

This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of urban mobility. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Impacts of expressway ring roads: Example of the Nagoya Metropolitan Expressway

    Impacts of the ring roads in the Nagoya metropolitan area and issues still at stake in the region.

  • ITS have entered the Second Stage in Japan

    This article describes the rapid growth of car navigation systems, VICS and ETC, and the causes of this growth and also reveals the effects of these systems. Next it explains efforts to realize "Smart Mobility for All" that has been announced as the goal of the second stage of ITS.

  • Understanding each other in Intelligent Transport Systems: an introduction to ITS terminology

    One of the main PIARC missions is to facilitate technological exchanges in the context of road and road transportation. PIARC has noticed the recent development of New Information Technologies and Communications in the world and acts towards the establishment of adapted terminology.

  • Intelligent transport systems make progress around the Developing World

    This paper attempts to identify the major patterns of ITS development and deployment in these countries and highlights how ITS can help to tackle the emerging transport problems.

  • Transport systems for World Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan

    15 million people are expected to visit Expo 2005. This equates to an average of 150 000 people per day. Effective transport systems are critical to the Expo's success. Transport systems consistent with the "Nature's Wisdom" theme have been developted. The use of high capacity public transport systems to deliver visitors to site has been adopted. Major new transport infrastructure(roads and trains) have been created. The transportation network is supported by the Information Technology (IT) project. [...]