General report and pictures of the Congress

General report and pictures of the Congress

Introduction to the XXIVth World Road Congress

Introduction to the XXIVth World Road Congress

Reduce height urban tunnels geometric desing

This paper describes varoius aspects of the long reduced-height road tunnels that are being used in France to reduce traffic congestion in major courbations. These tunnels are typical between 500m and 10 km long. Reasons for using type of tunnels include: the very high proportion of low vechiles in urban traffic, their technically easier construction, due to their smaller cross section, the acceptability of steeper grandients than for tunnels carrying heavy vechiles, their good traffic flow conditiond [...]

Tenderind and procurment procedures of National Road Administrations in Western Europe

This paper containes the result of an exhange of information between national administrations of Western European Roads Directors Group within PIARC. The admintrative responsibilities for highways and the highways tendering and procurement procedures for the construction of national road networks are described. That is to say the net network which is the responsibility of the Road Dicertors. The purpose of the exercise was to obtain better back ground knowledge of current practices in Western Europe [...]

Highlights of the XIIth International Winter Road Congress

The article written by Gudrun ÖBERG, Chair of TC 3.4 and theme coordinators, deals with the issues raised by the Congress. It presents the technical programme, the summaries of sessions and poster session. The conclusion underlines that there is no unique approach, each country, each region has its specific approach.