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• Social acceptance of risk and their perception

  

  This report was prepared by PIARC Technical Committee C3. It consists of 101 pages, including 40 pages of appendices (appendix A consists of 4 case-studies while appendix B presents the results of a survey on perception and social acceptance of risks). Chapter 1 presents the factors influencing risk [...]

  • Date : 2013
  • Pages : 118
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R30EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-298-9
• A study of winter service management systems and road user information

  

  Winter Service Management Systems (WSMS) are a developing technology currently implemented in some countries with marginal and cold winter climates. The report examines the conditions for the successful development and implementation of such systems. It also deals with the issues of sharing information [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 85
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R35EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-303-0
• Comparison of national road safety policies and plans

  

  This Report examines the road safety performance of several nations, reviews reported policies and strategies in jurisdictions and attempts to establish linkages between adopted and implemented road safety policies, overarching multi - year strategies and performance outcomes. The findings are built [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 304
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R31EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-264-4
• Increase the durability and lifetime of existing bridges

  

  The scope of this study is to present a library of examples on methods of minimizing the maintenance or repair cost or the traffic restrictions through increasing the durability and lifetime of existing bridges or structure components. 49 examples from Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America and South [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 56
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R33EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-301-6
• Prioritisation of bridge rehabilitation works

  

  The challenge in bridge management is to ensure that all bridges in a road network remain fit for their intended purpose over their design life and beyond at minimum life cycle cost. The bridge rehabilitation prioritisation process is part of the entire road infrastructure management task and bridge [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 58
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R32EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-300-9
• Road safety inspection guidelines for safety checks of existing roads

  

  A Road Safety Inspection (RSI) is a systematic, on site review, conducted by road safety expert(s), of an existing road or section of road to identify hazardous conditions, faults and deficiencies that may lead to serious accidents. After defining what is a road safety inspection, the report details [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 83
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R27EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-259-8
• Strategies for road networks operation

  

  This report studies, in its first part, the strategies of management of congested areas and road corridors. Examples are presented of measures to reduce non-recurring congestion (traffic incidents, planned special events, work zones, real time traveler information); recurring congestion (including: [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 90
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R26EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-295-4
• Best practices for road safety campaigns

  

  The report presents key findings of a literature review of best practices for road safety campaigns, and relate these to actual road safety campaign practices by road administrations and authorities of fourteen countries who responded to a survey questionnaire. The report covers the following key [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 50
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R28EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-260-1
• Guide to implement freight vehicle transport management

  

  This guide was prepared as an introduction to road freight transport management (RFTM) in an urban environment and to provide practical information. After a presentation of the objectives of R FTM, the report describes the different stages leading from the establishment of a partnership between the [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 50
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R16EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-276-8
• Improvements in safe working on roads

  

  The focus of this guide is on safety of both workers and road users in construction zones. For the safe, efficient and effective management of work zones, it is proposed that a 4 C's principle be adopted. Work zones should be designed, operated and maintained such that the works are conspicuous, clear, [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 99
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R29EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-263-6
• Public sector governance over urban freight transport

  

  This guide was prepared as an introduction to road freight transport management (RFTM) in an urban environment and to provide practical information. After a presentation of the objectives of R FTM, the report describes the different stages leading from the establishment of a partnership between the [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 150
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R15EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-274-1
• High level management indicators

  

  This report proposes a methodology for the identification of management indicators useful to road authorities for an efficient management of the road infrastructures they are in charge of. The methodology consists of four steps: the identification of the stakeholders; the analysis of the expectations [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 59
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R22EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-288-1
• A new scheme for evaluating road projects by considering their effects after disasters - A challenge for Japan just after the great earthquake of March 2011

  

  In March 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit the northeastern area of Japan. This was the world's fourth largest earthquake since 1900.

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-072
• Assessing the economic and tax-revenue effects of the construction of the S 8 Marchfeld expressway in Austria

  

  This article presents a novel approach to assessing the economic and tax-revenue effects of the construction and operation of new or improved traffic infrastructure and applies this approach to a very important planned road infrastructure project by ASFINAG, the S 8 Marchfeld expressway, linking the [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-064
• Evaluation to make transport "safe, clean and affordable"

  

  This article shows how the World Bank thinks about transport policies and projects.

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-046
• From ancient times to the Edo period: birth and development of the first road network in Japan

  

  In Japan, modernization started in the mid 19 th century when the country opened its ports to foreign trade and was actively encouraged by the Meiji government since 1868. National highways were also constructed and improved but were severely destroyed in Tokyo by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. In [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-080
• Introductory article: new developments in the evaluation of road projects

  

  The papers in this volume give a good insight of the broad range of tasks to be addressed by the scientific community and the responsible persons in charge in the road administrations.

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-028
• Preliminary feasibility study for road projects incorporating balanced regional development

  

  This article presents the preliminary feasibility study (PFS), introduced in 1999 in Korea. PFS has induced informed decision in the budget allocation, enhancing efficiency of fiscal management by checking starts of unnecessary projects at their early stages. Due to its successful implementation, the [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-056
• Social impacts of road projects and road pricing effects. Key findings

  

  This article describes the results of an extensive report featuring road pricing schemes descriptions from over 20 countries as well as evaluations of their impacts from many of these countries.

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-032
• Transport effects on the creation and circulation of value flows: principles for policy evaluation

  

  The major components of transport systems, i.e. traffic and access infrastructure, rolling stock and operating systems, constitute a set of facilities characterized by a long life cycle and high costs. As a result, capital investment decisions carry with them huge consequences, and it is commonplace [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-038
• State of the practice for cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis and resource allocation

  

  This report examines the economic analysis techniques applicable to investments to improve road safety, in order to optimize the allocation of available resources. It presents the basics of project evaluation before detailing the methods of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis. The report [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 102
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R24EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-291-1
• Regulatory impact analysis of transport legislation in Germany

  

  This article shows how in addition to the economic evaluation based on benefit-cost-analyses, all projects have to be assessed via an environmental and nature conservation analysis including an environmental risk assessment in Germany.

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR356-052
• Best practice for road tunnel emergency exercises

  

  Emergency exercises are an integral part of the planning process of road tunnel safety. Drawing on international experience in this area, this report is in the form of a detailed guide for defining objectives, prepare, implement and evaluate an exercise in the most efficient and productive as possible. [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 50
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R25EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-292-X
• Allocation of resources across asset classes

  

  This report presents the approaches used in different countries for the allocation of resources based on road asset management and the prioritization process for maintenance expenditure across different types of assets (pavements, bridges, geotechnical structures, etc.) Answers to an international [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 105
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R21EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-286-5
• Approaches to evaluation of social impacts of road projects

  

  This report reviews the approaches used to evaluate social impacts associated with the development and use of roads, at the project level. After an analysis of the limits of traditional project assessments, the report reflects the diversity of the perception of social impacts in different countries. [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 132
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R19EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-281-4