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• Impacts of expressway ring roads: Example of the Nagoya Metropolitan Expressway

  Impacts of the ring roads in the Nagoya metropolitan area and issues still at stake in the region.

  • Date : 2006
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR329-030
• Motorways concessions and tolls in Italy

  Current context of the Italian concession system, law and application frameworks of concessions and future developments.

  • Date : 2006
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR329-024
• Quantitative risk assessment model for dangerous goods transport through road tunnels

  Applications of the quantitative risk assessment model for dangerous goods transport in France, Austria and the UK.

  • Date : 2006
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR329-086
• Quantitative risk estimation of road slope disaster

  Framework of calculating the risk curve for road slope failures due to rainfall.

  • Date : 2006
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : RR329-076
• Risk management on mega projects

  Use of risk management throughout the organization of the most recent Danish (Swedish/Danish) mega project.

  • Date : 2006
  • Pages : 12
  • PIARC Ref. : RR329-064
• The A86 Motorway: an underground motorway and a new transport system

  Construction of the last section of the A86 to the West of Paris, in the Versailles area and the solution found by Cofiroute to deal with this residential, green and greatly demanded part of the route.

  • Date : 2006
  • Pages : 14
  • PIARC Ref. : RR329-042
• The China expressways network Plan

  Context that led to the creation of a national programme for roads in China and characteristics and benefits of this programme.

  • Date : 2006
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR329-018
• Intelligent transport systems make progress around the Developing World

  This paper attempts to identify the major patterns of ITS development and deployment in these countries and highlights how ITS can help to tackle the emerging transport problems.

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 12
  • PIARC Ref. : RR328-044
• ITS have entered the Second Stage in Japan

  This article describes the rapid growth of car navigation systems, VICS and ETC, and the causes of this growth and also reveals the effects of these systems. Next it explains efforts to realize "Smart Mobility for All" that has been announced as the goal of the second stage of ITS.

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR328-066
• PIARC Road Network Operations Handbook

  This article gives an overview of the PIARC Road Network Operations Handbook which is supplemented by the PIARC ITS Handbook - second edition [2] which contains a detailed presentation of ITS.

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR328-030
• The development of a national road traffic information policy in France

  This article describes the parallel evolution of road information and intelligent transport systems and settles the historic context that lead France to establish its own national policy for road information.

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : RR328-074
• Traffic management in Wales

  This article provides an insight into the systems employed, the traffic management activities undertaken by the TMCs and the role played by Traffic Wales.

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR328-036
• Understanding each other in Intelligent Transport Systems: an introduction to ITS terminology

  One of the main PIARC missions is to facilitate technological exchanges in the context of road and road transportation. PIARC has noticed the recent development of New Information Technologies and Communications in the world and acts towards the establishment of adapted terminology.

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR328-056
• A journey to the Land of covered bridges

  The vast areas of Québec which have been settled contain many rivers and tributaries. This natural partition of the new land forced colonists and their descendants to construct numerous bridges. Our ancestors, employing ingenuity rather than engineering, adopted a design that was seen as durable, the [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : RR327-074
• Emerging problems, potential answers offered by logistical platforms

  A logistic platform is a transshipment area where, ideally, at least two transport modes are connected. The concentration of transport-related companies inside a logistic platform promotes synergy and overall efficiency. However, this needs an integration process that is planned and enforced in cooperation [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 12
  • PIARC Ref. : RR327-054
• On-line consultation of multiligual technical dictionnaries of road terms

  Since February 2005, PIARC introduced a new application on the Internet which allows several multilingual technical dictionaries to be consulted on-line from the Association's website www.piarc.org. This article will describe the new service and attempt to see how it may develop.

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR327-066
• Recent applications of HDM-4 on a wide variety of roads networks and environments

  To demonstrate the versatility of HDM-4, this paper describes its use in three different scenarios - Poland's National Roads and Motorways, Namibia's National Road Network and the privately operated North South (Tolled) Expressway of Malaysia.

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR327-084
• Road pricing, financing, regulation and equity: a summary of the PIARC Seminar in Cancun, Mexico

  PIARC's international seminar on issues related to road pricing as a financing, regulatory, and equity tool was held in Cancun, Mexico, from 11 to 13 April 2005. This article will outline the experiences and the projects that were presented at the seminar and will endeavour to give an overview of road [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : RR327-036
• Impact of Permafrost thaw on airfield and road infrastructures in Nunavik

  Damage to airstrips and access roads has led Ministère des Transports du Québec to take this problem seriously. Research had been undertaken in 2004 to assess current and foreseeable impacts on northern infrastructures, recommend adaptation measures for problem situations, and review airstrip design [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR326-042
• Public private partnerships for road infrastructure development in Mexico

  Mexico's road network is the backbone of the country's transportation system. The road network serves the whole territory and provides access and mobility to most of the country's 104 million inhabitants. Because of the country's reliance on its road system, there are large investment needs in the road [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR326-050
• Review of UK skid resistance policy

  In 2004, the Highways Agency therefore commenced a review to examine all aspects of the skid resistance policy. This paper describes the results of the accident analysis, which has led to a revision of the site categories and ILs and changes to the way that potential maintenance schemes will be evaluated. [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 12
  • PIARC Ref. : RR326-066
• Transport systems for World Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan

  15 million people are expected to visit Expo 2005. This equates to an average of 150 000 people per day. Effective transport systems are critical to the Expo's success. Transport systems consistent with the "Nature's Wisdom" theme have been developted. The use of high capacity public transport systems [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR326-078
• Creation of an agency for transport infrastructure funding in France

  Resources from the road sector and in particular motorway company dividends will fund this agency that is entirely devoted to financing transport infrastructures. This is a major political decision for France, who does not have specific road funds and who until now has always returned all taxes and [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR325-040
• Evaluating environmental managment

  One of the issues being examined by PIARC's Sustainable Development and Road Transport Committee is the "concrete application of policies to road transport, such as those developed in the Kyoto protocol and the Rio de Janeiro conference, ". Developing environmental management is important so that road [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : RR325-062
• The Crni Kal viaduct

  The Črni Kal viaduct is one of the most advanced civil engineering project ever undertaken in the Republic of Slovenia. This article presents some of the technical and environmental challenges during the design and construction of the viaduct. Severe local weather conditions were also issues confronted [...]

  • Date : 2005
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR325-070