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• Supporting road management and operations through ITS - The experience of ANAS S.p.A.

  

  This article describes the ANAS experience regarding the implementation of an ITS system to manage road network and demonstrates how technologies can give a tangible support for delivering improved services related to road operations.

  • Date : 2015
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR365-060
• The medium-term strategy to realize multimodal mobility in Tokyo Metropolitan Region

  

  This article describes how the pattern of main mass transit networks, and thus, multi-modal urban mobility has been realized at a substantial degree. This is due to a medium-term strategy of coordinated planning and finance between rail transit network development and suburban development.

  • Date : 2015
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR365-036
• Cycling and pedestrian policies in cities and metropolitan areas worldwide

  

  This article makes a state of the art of cycling and pedestrian policies in cities and metropolitan areas worldwide.

  • Date : 2015
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR365-076
• Regional transport and urban design concept of Greater Berne as a trigger

  

  This article describes a good example of a coordinated planning: the Regional transport and Urban Design Concept of the greater Berne.

  • Date : 2015
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR365-084
• Proceedings of the XIVth International Winter Road Congress -Andorra

  

  This DVD presents the Congress proceedings. It contains: information on organizing the Congress and the exhibition, the Congress program: the technical program and the program for accompanying persons; individual papers and the visual aids for the oral presentations; transcription of the [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • PIARC Ref. : CD ANDORRE 2014
  • ISBN : 978-99920-0-773-0
• The importance of road maintenance

  

  Road infrastructure provides a fundamental foundation to the performance of all national economies, delivering a wide range of economic and social benefits. Adequately maintaining road infrastructure is essential to preserve and enhance those benefits. The importance of maintenance needs to be recognised [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 32
  • PIARC Ref. : 2014R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-349-8
• An innovative training for road operations

  

  This article underlines the need for more extensive instruction and training for operating personnel dealing with increasing complexity of road operation to give the proper response.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-070
• Application of risk assessment as tool for road tunnel safety management

  

  This article describes several European risk assessment methods for road tunnel safety management developed at national level and established in national regulations and research to improve their reliability and the expansion of their range of Further challenges are underlined: the development of strategies [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-062
• Disaster management for Tokyo inland earthquakes in Japan

  

  This article describes natural disaster management in Tokyo.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-028
• Experience regarding traffic management in relation with London Olympic Games 2012

  

  This article describes traffic management in relation with London Olympic Games of 2012.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-036
• Lessons of managing emergency situations learned from various disaster experiences

  

  This paper summarizes them and proposes recommendations to road authorities based on the result of the discussion in the World Road Association TC1.5 WG3.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-044
• Risk and emergency management as a basis for road intelligent transportation systems (ITS) planning and operation

  

  This article describes risk and emergency management on the Spanish road network.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-052
• Traffic control centers - organization and role in traffic risk and incident reduction

  

  This article describes the organisation of road risk incident reduction in Greece, particularly on the « Egnatia Odos » motorway which belongs to the Trans-European Road Network.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-076
• Tunnel classification according to ADR and dangerous goods transport network modification in Gipuzkoa

  

  This article is to summarize the work done to classify the existing tunnels and analyze the practicality of changing the Dangerous Good Transport Network in Gipuzkoa in Spain based on a risk analysis of road transport of dangerous goods.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-084
• US experiences with asset management: adapting to extreme events and associated risks

  

  This article describes FHWA's efforts as well as some of the events that have yielded insights that allow refinement of the US approach to risk-based asset management.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR364-022
• Implementation of Australia's new road crash risk assessment approach

  

  The Australian National Risk Assessment Model (ANRAM) provides road agencies in Australia with a nationally-consistent system for the identification; measurement and reporting of severe crash risk. ANRAM helps road agencies manage this risk through the development of treatment programs aimed at reducing [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-080
• Malaysia - Mixed traffic and segregation of motorcycles on the Port Klang-Kuala Lumpur Road

  

  Recent economic growth in Malaysia has resulted in a significant increase in the volume of road traffic in most cities in the country. In spite of being able to travel quite quickly within a city, many Malaysians have opted for motorcycles as their means of transportation to avoid traffic congestion. [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-074
• New Zealand - Evaluating a package of interventions to improve young driver safety

  

  New Zealand's road safety strategy to 2020, Safer Journeys [Ministry of Transport 2010], has as one of its goals a reduction in the fatality rate of young people. In 2007/08, the fatality rate for young New Zealanders in road crashes was 21 per 100,000 population. Half of these fatalities were drivers. [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-088
• Philippine initiatives towards safer roads: a'safe system' approach

  

  On 10 May 2010, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the period 2011-2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Its goal is to stabilize and reduce the forecast level of global road fatalities by 2020 through increased activities conducted at national, regional and global levels.

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-052
• Progress in Indonesia on infrastructure improvement

  

  In Indonesia the number of road fatalities continues to increase. According to the Indonesian Traffic Corporation, the number of fatalities in 2012 peaked at 31,234. The cost associated with traffic accidents in 2010, in terms of lost productivity, was about 3% of national GDP, or about IDR 210 trillion. [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-044
• Road safety framework and policies in Singapore

  

  Singapore is an urbanised city State. It has a land area of 715.8 square kilometers and a dense population of about 5.31 million. About 13% of the total land area is devoted to roads. The road network is highly urbanised, with 161 km of expressways, 652 km of arterial roads, 561 km of collector [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-058
• Road safety in REAAA countries - Overview

  

  In June 2001, the World Road Association and the Road Engineering Association of Asia & Australasia (REAAA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to serve as a basis for a future structured cooperation. The MoU was updated in 2009 to better reflect the increased level of cooperation and mutual [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 2
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-034
• Road transportation safety policies and measures in South Korea

  

  As of the end of 2012, the area of South Korea was 100,208 km 2 and its population was 50,950,000 with 90.9% of the population living in urban areas. The length of the Korean road network at the end of 2012 was 109,930 km, including 4,044 km of expressways; 79.8% of the roads were paved. Whilst there [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-036
• The first Latvian national road network (1918-1938)

  

  The 20 th century is particularly significant in Latvian history. During this period, unquestionable progress was made in the development of society. Major transformations took place in various fields. Initially it was a fight for survival, intertwined with an effort to preserve the Latvian nation [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-096
• Traffic safety countermeasure project for arterial roads in Japan

  

  A hazardous locations countermeasure project has been conducted in Japan since 2003 as part of a traffic safety countermeasure project for arterial roads. The aim of the project is to implement effective and efficient countermeasures at hazardous locations, which are determined by their concentration [...]

  • Date : 2014
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR363-066