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Technical Reports Road tunnel operations

This page lists technical reports of PIARC in the field of Road tunnel operations. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Road Tunnels: reduction of Operating Costs

    The purpose of the report is to identify the main operational cost factors for road tunnels and to show, with examples and recommendations, how such costs could be reduced without conflicting with an acceptable standard of operational safety. The topic "Operational Costs of Tunnels" was an agenda item of the Brussels Congress in 1987. The publication from that Congress provided an analysis of tunnel cost and the distribution of operational costs for 112 road tunnels. The Committee on Road [...]