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• Transport Strategies for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

  

  The transport sector is a major and quickly growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. Since 1970, greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector have more than doubled, increasing at a faster rate than any other end-use sector, and on-road greenhouse gas emissions have more than tripled, [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 56
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R25EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-420-4
• Evolution of the mission and structure of transport administrations

  

  In the 2012 - 2015 WRA Cycle, Working Group 1 has focused on investigating the evolution of missions and structures of road administrations in the context of multi-modal planning and delivery. Included within this scope are various methods of planning integration and informal and formal collaboration [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 73
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R23EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-415-0
• Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Measures

  

  There is increasing emphasis on good governance practice to build and maintain institutional integrity within road and transport administrations. Working Group 3 dealing with "Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Measures" within Technical Committee 1.1 on'Performance of Transport Administrations' of [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 59
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R21EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-410-5
• Road tunnels: complex underground road networks

  

  Underground complex road networks are under development in the world due to the growing concentration of the population in large urban areas. The high occupation on the surface, the extension of the perimeter of the metropolises, the growing demand in travel and mobility, lead naturally and inevitably [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 80
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R19EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-404-4
• General report of the XXVth World Road Congress Seoul (Korea), November 2015

  

  The General Report of the XXVth World Road Congress has been prepared under the supervision of the Strategic Planning Commission of the World Road Association (PIARC), which was responsible for reviewing the drafts. This General Report has been written by Chang-ho Lee (Korea Expressway Corporation, [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR371-012
• General report of the XXVth World Road Congress Seoul (Korea), November 2015 Strategic Theme 2 - Access and Mobility

  

  Strategic Theme 2 recognizes that road authorities provide a service to the community and industry, thus recognizing these groups as customers. At the heart of this issue is the need to provide services in a reliable manner and ensure that network resilience has been set at an appropriate level. Five [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 18
  • PIARC Ref. : RR371-040
• General report of the XXVth World Road Congress Seoul (Korea), November 2015 - Strategic Theme 1 - Management and Performance

  

  In order to encourage the development of transport policies and strategies facilitating the strong performance and sustainable funding of transport agencies during the period 2012 to 2015, the Association established five Technical Committees under Strategic Theme 1 Management and Performance, namely: [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 22
  • PIARC Ref. : RR371-018
• General report of the XXVth World Road Congress Seoul (Korea), November 2015 - Strategic Theme 3 - Safety

  

  According to the World Health Organization, road traffic injuries are the 8th leading cause of death globally and the leading cause of death for young people aged 15-29 (Global status report on road safety, 2013)1. Road traffic injuries are therefore a major public health problem for the planet and [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : RR371-058
• General report of the XXVth World Road Congress Seoul (Korea), November 2015 - Strategic Theme 4 - Infrastructure

  

  While new technological, social and environmental developments are expanding the sphere of interest for road authorities, the management of road infrastructure remains their core business. The need for a more efficient and effective use of budgets requires a constant balancing of funds allocated to [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 12
  • PIARC Ref. : RR371-068
• Human factors guidelines for a safer man-road interface

  

  In the case of road safety, the Human Factors concept considers road characteristics that influence a driver's right or wrong driving actions. It understands the causes of road users' operational mistakes as the first step in a chain of actions which may proceed to an accident. Many often observed operational [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 78
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R20EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-408-2
• Preserve your Country's roads to Drive Development

  

  The economy of every country has a strong relationship with its road network. A well preserved network will attract investment and make growth happen. It will also help meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals by improving accessibility and mobility to schools, health facilities and markets. It will [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 46
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R07EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-385-6
• Proceedings of the XXVth World Road Congress - Seoul

  

  The XXVth World Road Congress was held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in November 2015, under the theme "Roads and Mobility-Creating New Value from Transport".  This congress was organised in close cooperation between the World Road Association, responsible for the content and development of the programme, [...]

  • Date : 2015
  • PIARC Ref. : CD SEOUL 2015
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-423-5
• Cooperative Vehicle Highway Systems

  

  We can consider that the most recent developments of the vehicles are: the massive deployment of sensors, actuators and computers allowing to develop a kind of "vehicle and transport system intelligence"; their ability to communicate among themselves or with the infrastructure through the concept [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 51
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R08EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-386-3
• Crisis management of unusually severe and/or sustained snow events

  

  Extreme winter weather between 2008 and 2015 tested highway winter maintenance arrangements in many parts of the world. Unusually cold weather and significant snow events resulted in significant transport disruption and international media attention. From these challenges arose an opportunity to learn [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 36
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R14EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-397-9
• Expected service life of wearing courses

  

  As part of its 2012 to 2015 strategic plan the World Road Association (PIARC) determined the need to identify and review approaches taken in assessing the service life of wearing courses. This report reviews the different approaches taken by road authorities to determine the service life of wearing [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 20
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R18EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-403-7
• Lay bys and protection against lateral obstacles - Current practices in Europe

  

  Accidents which have occurred in tunnels have brought to light the danger that the perpendicular end-wall of lay-bys can present to road users in tunnels. Various European representatives of the PIARC Road Tunnel Operations Committee engaged in discussions on the topic of lay-bys and lateral obstacles [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 38
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R16EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-400-6
• Methodologies and tools for risk assessment and management applied to road operations

  

  This report deals with methodologies and tools for risk assessment and management applied to road operations including managing risks in relation to the climate change. Chapter 1 of this report starts with a classification of methodologies for risk management of road infrastructure. Particular attention [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 54
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R12EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-394-8
• Moving freight transport forward - Green, smart and efficient

  

  This study addresses the challenges associated with freight transportation efficiency, presenting and analysing a series of good practice examples that reveal efficient freight transportation systems. It should serve as a source of inspiration for making freight transportation more efficient from the [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 50
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R13EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-396-2
• Road network management for improved mobility

  

  It is useful to review the term "Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)" in this report. According to the PIARC ITS Handbook, ITS is a generic term to mean integrated communications, control technologies and information processing systems for transport applications. However, in this report, we consider [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 53
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R11EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-393-1
• Role of risk-assessment in policy development and decision-making

  

  In the context of its 2012 - 2015 work program, PIARC has identified the Role of risk assessment in policy development and decision-making as one of its key issue under the theme TC 1.5 Risk management. This report thus provides a portrait of both the present penetration of risk management policies [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 54
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R09EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-388-7
• State of the art in monitoring road condition and road/vehicle interaction

  

  This report summarises the current state of the art regarding the collection of road condition and road/vehicle interaction data, providing an overview of current practice and emerging technologies. Technologies in the development and experimental stages are generally not discussed. The document is [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 77
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R17EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-402-0
• Uses of ITS including consideration of planning for future improvements, upgrades and the economy

  

  Economic growth typically results in an increase of both freight and passenger traffic. This generally compounds the problems in transportation systems. ITS technologies have been widely used to mitigate many of these transportation challenges and will continue to play an increasingly important role [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 43
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R10EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-391-7
• Promoting sustainable maintenance of rural roads networks

  

  Rural roads are roads or improved trails whose main role is to ensure local exchanges, providing access to rural areas and access to the national or regional primary road network or to the interconnected network. Rural roads are key to development and economic growth of countries and provide considerable [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R15EN
• A new beginning in organizational risk management

  

  This article describes how the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) in South Australia has settled a framework which provides the foundations to assist the department to embed risk management into the organisation's culture, practices and decision making processes.

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR370-042
• Adelaide's North-South Corridor Project Development through Risk Management Decison Making

  

  This article describes the SA TSMF which supports and guides decision-making in transport system planning and development, in pursuit of SA's goals, high-level transport system objectives, and the governments' priorities. It has a whole-of-system focus, with a multi-modal perspective that considers [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : RR370-058