Leading roads to carbon neutrality

This article describes the International Road Federation (IRF) research program intended to provide corporations, government and road industry professionals with a decision-making calculator tool specifically devoted to reducing emissions from Greenhouse Gases (GG).

Roads and climate change in mountainous regions: keeping a cool head when resolving a hot issue

This article will present the dangers involved in simply transposing overall climate scenarios to regions with mountainous or rugged terrain, with special emphasis on the nuance needed when interpreting the temperature - snow - frost relationship.

Transportation and climate change: potential implications for California's transportation system

This paper provides a review of some current and potential state greenhouse gas mitigation activities within the transportation sector - looking toward less carbon intensive economy in the future.

Vulnerability of the road network to coastal processes in Eastern Quebec: impact of climate change

This article describes new methods used for evaluating the risks and extreme conditions capable of jeopardizing the integrity of the road network and other critical infrastructure throughout the coastal of Eastern Québec.

Road on existing waste deposite

Restraints influencing the choice of an alignement are increasing stronger and the road engineer may be led to cross a deposit of different waste materials from human origin. he may also find it after alignment has been chosen. The engineer is faced with unusual difficulties when he must cross what geotechnicians describe willingly as "lower dustbib". The quality of this article is to provide both a general framework of study of these particular deposite and a more detailed framework of technicla [...]