Towards development of a risk management approach

A risk management approach is an important decision-making tool that complements good program and project management.The report presents an integrated risk management approach with respect to the following: ·Risk management techniques in the road sector ·Risk management for mega projects; and ·Improving the safety of road systems The concept of risk and the approaches to risk categorisation, analysis and evaluation are presented, including the Risk Analysis by Scenario (RAS) method.The [...]

Risk analysis for road tunnels

Risk analysis is an important tool which can be used to help improve and optimise the safety of road tunnels. Risk analysis is now explicitly required by the European Directive 2004/54/EC, on minimum safety requirements for road tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network. The report summarises the worldwide application of risk analysis methodologies for road tunnels and provides details about the adopted methods, the concept of risk evaluation, the experience of practical application and the [...]

Study on Risk Management for Roads

PIARC C18 started its first term of activities in 2000, conducting two International Surveys, two International Seminars in Chile and Hungary, and a detailed Study on Risk Prevention and Management. This report is a compilation of essential findings and valuable information gathered through its activities of seminars and surveys. Its purpose is to give an overview about risk and crisis management indicating a general approach to methodology and describing the main activities of these processes. [...]

Slope Risk Guidance for Roads

Slopes are, in general, associated with a greater frequency of failure than other geotechnical assets and a greater threat economically and socially. This report makes a synthesis of risk analysis methods and of vulnerability issues. It presents, in a series of appendices, mitigation measures with their advantages and disadvantages together with a set of case studies.

Natural Disaster reduction

The General Assembly of the United Nations, on December 11, 1987, designated the 1990s as the International Decade for natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). During this ten-year period, 1990 through 1999, special efforts should be made for reducing catastrophic loss of life, property damage, and social and economic disruption due to natural disasters, such as landslides, earthquakes and floods, throughout the world. In response to the UN appeal on IDNDR, PIARC organized a Working Group on « natural [...]