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• Concrete Roads - Practical Guidelines for Technology Transfer

  This report was drafted by the PIARC Technical Committee on Concrete Roads in close co-operation with the PIARC Technical Committee on Roads in Developing Regions. It clarifies the main points of the concrete road technique and is intended for various categories of people concerned with pavement [...]

  • Date : 1987
  • Pages : 116
  • PIARC Ref. : 07.02.BEN
• Containment Devices on Road Bridges

  Drafted by the PIARC Technical Committee on Road Bridges, this report deals with the study of equipment on the outer side of road bridges, i.e. located between the carriageway and the free edge, whose function is to ensure safety of users and frontagers. The report has used the replies to a survey [...]

  • Date : 1991
  • Pages : 100
  • PIARC Ref. : 11.01.BEN
• Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements

  This report gathers the main features of the state of the art on continuously reinforced concrete in 23 states (Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Republic of South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, and 12 states of the United States). The aim of the report [...]

  • Date : 1994
  • Pages : 72
  • PIARC Ref. : 07.06.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-006-4
• Contribution to Risk Management of Existing Slopes

  

  C12 decided to extend those studies and adopted the topic risk management of existing slopes during the period 1995-1999 to focus on the utilization of monitoring techniques and database applications. The report summarizes the risk management on existing slopes in technical aspects through the collected [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 100
  • PIARC Ref. : 12.11.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-129-X
• Cost Recovery and Dedication of Road User Fees

  

  Under the jurisdiction of PIARC Committee on Financing and Economic Evaluation (C9) an investigation was undertaken within PIARC member countries on the related topics of cost recovery of road user fees and the dedication of such fees to road or transportation purposes. The material that follows is [...]

  • Date : 1999
  • Pages : 60
  • PIARC Ref. : 09.03.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-056-0
• Costing and Pricing of Road Use

  

  The 2000-2003 PIARC Strategic Plan establishes five strategic themes. Strategic Theme 4: Management and Administration of the Road System has the goal to improve the performance of road administrations in the provision, operation and management of road infrastructure and its use in accordance with international [...]

  • Date : 2003
  • Pages : 80
  • PIARC Ref. : 09.06.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-149-4
• Cross Section Design of Bidirectional Road Tunnels

  

  Work on this report started in September 2001 as a continuation of the work carried out between the years 1998 and 2001, which concluded with the report entitled CROSS SECTION GEOMETRY IN UNIDIRECTIONAL ROAD TUNNELS, published by PIARC in March 2001. This report shares the terminology and general approach [...]

  • Date : 2004
  • Pages : 72
  • PIARC Ref. : 05.12.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-164-8
• Cross Section Geometry in Uni-directionnal Tunnels

  Work on this report started in 1998 after studying literature on accidents in tunnels and national design guides. The goal 4 is to develop the principles for a safe and cost effective tunnel cross section taking into consideration signalling and traffic management requirements. This report mainly describes [...]

  • Date : 2002
  • Pages : 96
  • PIARC Ref. : 05.11.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-138-9
• Decision-Making Processes in the Implementation of Sustainable Road Policies

  

  Investment and policy decisions in road transport infrastructure are often significant decisions in the life of governments and communities because of the large amounts of money involved and the impact that the construction and operation of the infrastructure can have on stakeholders, communities and [...]

  • Date : 2003
  • Pages : 144
  • PIARC Ref. : 14.04.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-148-6
• Development of tools for Performance Measurement

  This report constitutes the synthesis of the work carried out by the C15 PIARC Committee on the theme: "Development of Performance Measuring Tools". It aims at showing the principal performance indicators used in the PIARC countries and the use which can be made of them in order to improve the efficiency [...]

  • Date : 1999
  • Pages : 92
  • PIARC Ref. : 15.02.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-054-4
• Drainage of Water on Road Bridges

  An international inquiry carried out by the PIARC Technical Committee on Road Bridges has made it possible to collect information on current practice in nineteen countries for water drainage from road bridges (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, India, Israel, Italy, [...]

  • Date : 1991
  • Pages : 176
  • PIARC Ref. : 11.02.BEN
• Economic Evaluation Methods for Road Projects in PIARC Member Countries

  

  A working group of Committee C9 on Financing and Economic Evaluation has prepared this report. It was conducted as a questionnaire survey of all member countries of C9 in 1997, supplemented with information from other available sources e.g. publications and reports. The data contained in this report [...]

  • Date : 1999
  • Pages : 92
  • PIARC Ref. : 09.02.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-055-0
• Economic Evaluation Methods for Road Projects in PIARC members countries

  

  PIARC Committee C9 on Economic and Financial Evaluation has prepared this report to present an up to date description and analysis of the methodologies used by PIARC member countries and international agencies for economic evaluation of road projects, the range and valuation of the impacts considered, [...]

  • Date : 2004
  • Pages : 84
  • PIARC Ref. : 09.07.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-173-7
• Efficient Allocation of Financial and Budgetary Resources

  This report covers the work of PIARC Committee C15 on Performance of Road Administrations (C15) on efficient allocation of financial and budgetary resources. An evaluation of the efficiency of existing systems and economic appraisal methods to allocate financial and budgetary resources and a comparison [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 120
  • PIARC Ref. : 15.03.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-123-0
• English-French Lexicon, 2nd Edition

  The PIARC Lexicon contains around 16,000 expressions in English and French of a common use for road engineers. In addition to all the terms of the PIARC Technical Road Dictionary, the Lexicon includes many new expressions that are classified in alphabetical order. It contains terminology related [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 1102
  • PIARC Ref. : 81.02.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-126-5
• Environment and Construction of Road Projects

  One work area of the PIARC Committee on the Environment concerns the consequences of the construction of road projects. In July 1997, an inquiry was sent to all PIARC member countries. It dealt with the five major topics identified by the Working Group: soil and water protection; how to deal with contaminated [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 80
  • PIARC Ref. : 14.03.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-122-2
• Environmental and Health Aspects Related to Working with Bituminous Mixtures

  This report describes the arrangements made to limit the impact of dust and gaseous emissions in particular, both at the production and laying stage of bituminous mixtures. It also reviews the state of the art in the evaluation of health risks to workers on paver, with emphasis on the large difference [...]

  • Date : 1995
  • Pages : 32
  • PIARC Ref. : 08.04.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-032-3
• Environmental Impact of Existing Pavements

  The management of negative consequences such as the deterioration of the living environment, road hazard, energy consumption, air pollution, noise, biotope modification and road congestion are today's major challenges. We often talk about the long term but work on a short-term basis without any realistically-targeted, [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 136
  • PIARC Ref. : 14.02.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-121-4
• Evaluation and funding of road maintenance in PIARC member countries

  

  This report presents an up to date description and analysis of the methodologies used by PIARC member countries and international agencies for evaluation and funding of road maintenance. The common problem of inadequate attention to road maintenance is highlighted. The concept of a systematic approach [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 80
  • PIARC Ref. : 09.08.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-182-6
• Evaluation and Limitation of Impacts social and environmental for Road Networks and Transport Policies

  

  One work area of the PIARC Committee 14 on "Sustainable development and Road Transport" concerns the evaluation and limitation of impacts of road networks and transport policies. The Road is life (Via Vita). This are the words contained in the logo of the World Road Association established in 1909. [...]

  • Date : 2004
  • Pages : 274
  • PIARC Ref. : 14.05.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-163-X
• Evaluation and maintenance of concrete pavements

  The road asset of a country or region is of considerable value. Owners who have chosen to invest in concrete pavements for all or part of their road network or their airfields have often done so hoping to obtain a lasting infrastructure and a guarantee of maintaining traffic in all weather conditions. [...]

  • Date : 1992
  • Pages : 160
  • PIARC Ref. : 07.04.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-002-1
• Evaluation of Transport Performance Measures for Cities

  

  Managers of transport organizations need to make decisions that contribute to city objectives that are broader than just transportation efficiency. There is an increasing awareness that there are linkages between transport and other public policy domains: safety, the environment, the economy, social [...]

  • Date : 2003
  • Pages : 104
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.14.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-94060-160-5
• Financing of Road Infrastructures: Guide for New Methods of Financing and Public/Private Partnership

  

  There are various types of road infrastructure financing, from "traditional" public funding through budgetary resource allocation relying on general taxes and duties, to "pure" private funding through limited recourse project financing based on road pricing or toll collection. But road investment needs [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 160
  • PIARC Ref. : 09.04.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-116-8
• Fire and Smoke Control in Road Tunnels

  

  Among the possible risks, vehicle fires give rise to particular concern because they are not very rare events and their consequences might be far larger underground than in the open if no appropriate measures were taken. Also the important and continuous decrease in vehicle pollutant emissions has led [...]

  • Date : 1999
  • Pages : 290
  • PIARC Ref. : 05.05.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-064-1
• Flexible Pavement - Evolution of Specifications and Quality Systems to Deliver Performance

  Specifications for bituminous materials in highway construction are continuously evolving. At an early stage, they were more intuitive and based on engineering judgement. They were called method or recipe specifications in which the client specified the materials and procedures that the contractor had [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 168
  • PIARC Ref. : 08.08.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-117-6