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• Road Infrastructure: A Key Building Block for a Safe System

  

  The interaction between road users is ultimately determined by the design of the road infrastructure. The road provides the foundation for transport and mobility and also provides the foundation for a Safe System if it is designed, built and maintained well. Fatalities and injuries are the outcome [...]

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR376-028
• Road Safety Issues in Latin America - Interview

  

  Hilda Gómez, Head of road safety at the Latin American development bank (CAF), Colombia Associate member of Technical Committee C.1 National Road Safety Policies and Programs of the World Road Association

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR376-045
• Road safety: Policies, Strategies and Action Campaigns

  

  The internationalization of the road safety issue is no longer open to debate. Roadrelated risks must now be addressed across all continents, although the extent of risk mitigation varies tremendously. Should the numbers of victims be expressed per capita or should analyses actually segment by victims, [...]

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 1
  • PIARC Ref. : RR376-023
• Vulnerable Road Users on Rural Highways - A Malaysian Perspective

  

  Une personne meurt toutes les 30 secondes sur les routes à travers le monde et ce chiffre, donné par les statistiques mondiales d’accidentalité, s’alourdit. La Malaisie, où la motorisation et la population ont augmenté rapidement ces trente dernières années, est victime de ce triste scénario, [...]

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR376-056
• Vulnerable Road Users on Rural Highways: A South African Perspective

  

  Available publications, guidelines and manuals on road safety tend to relate to Vulnerable Road Users in the context of high income or developed countries (HICs). However, the factors affecting road safety in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) does not always align with the experience in HICs. [...]

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 7
  • PIARC Ref. : RR376-050
• A Short History of Polish Roads - From Amber to Enlightenment

  

  This article and the one to follow in Routes/Roads 376 will take you on a journey through centuries of history, showing the good and challenging times of road building, and conclude our story in modern times, thus encouraging you to visit Poland and come to Szczucin, which hosts the Road Building History [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR375-055
• A Technical Description of LARS and Lumi: Two Apparatus for Studying Tire-Pavement Interactions

  

  The controllability of a vehicle equipped with tires decreases under certain circumstances. One of these circumstances is in winter, where snow and ice affect tire-pavement interaction and thus friction. In such conditions, the control of the vehicle might be lost, which results in longer braking distances [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 7
  • PIARC Ref. : RR375-049
• A Winter Maintenance Manual for the Finnish Transportation Agency

  

  In 2016, the Finnish Road Administration (FTA) initiated a project to describe the best current practices and winter maintenance methods entitled the “Winter Maintenance Manual”. The target group for the manual is winter service professionals, contractors, subcontractors, quality assurance personnel [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 7
  • PIARC Ref. : RR375-037
• Climate Change and Adaptation Needs for Road Infrastructure in Indian Himalayan Region

  

  Heavy snowfall in several parts of Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) during current winter throws normal life out of gear with roads and residential utility services getting mostly affected. The challenges of winter commuting for the people living in IHR is even more acute owing to its terrain, lack of [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 7
  • PIARC Ref. : RR375-031
• Managing the Risk of Avalanches on the Road

  

  The Franco-Spanish consortium responsible for the Aragnouet-Bielsa Tunnel was created on June 2nd, 2008, as enshrined in the Bayonne Treaty signed between the Aragon Government (Spain) and France’s Upper Pyrenées Department. This entity conforms to a unified binational policy dictating maintenance [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR375-022
• Measuring Sustainability in Winter Service Operations

  

  Sustainability has been an area of growing importance in the transportation field over the past two decades. In the United States, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) now provides an online tool that allows agencies to assess their performance in transportation design and operations, and include [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 7
  • PIARC Ref. : RR375-043
• The 15th International Winter Road Congress in Gdańsk: A sneak preview of paper content

  

  Every four years, the culmination of activity sponsored by the World Road Association Technical Committee B.2 Winter service is showcased on the stage of an international Congress, with the next one scheduled for February 20th through 23rd in Gdańsk (Poland). According to the Association’s 2016-2019 [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 1
  • PIARC Ref. : RR375-021
• Use of the Pikalert® System in the Wyoming Department of Transportation Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment

  

  Rural Wyoming is strongly impacted by hazardous weather along its road network. Interstate 80 (I-80) is a major highway that runs west to east along the southern part of the state, which is located in the Northern Rocky Mountain area of the U.S. illustration 1. The entirety of I-80 in Wyoming is over [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR375-027
• Key issues for improving mobility strategies in large urban areas

  

  During the period 2012 - 2015, Technical Committee 2.2 collected and evaluated case studies on urban mobility from numerous large and medium-sized cities from all over the world. Three issues were evaluated in these case studies: a comparison of strategies for sustainable urban mobility, at a mobility [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 101
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R27EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-427-3
• Land use and safety: an introduction to understanding how land use decisions impact safety of the transportation system

  

  Unplanned communities create hazards for road users of all types generating unsafe conditions for motorists on the roadway and significant dangers for pedestrians, bicyclists and residents alongside or adjacent to the road. While the World Road Association continues to investigate options and recommendations [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 44
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R32EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-440-2
• Maintenance management and improvement of rural roads

  

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  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R33EN
• Management of road assets: Balancing of environmental and engineering aspects in management of road networks

  

  The objective of Working Group 3 (WG3) of The World Road Association (PIARC) Technical Committee (TC) 4.1 was to establish a global perspective on how environmental aspects are considered and addressed in the road asset management process compared with traditional engineering oriented road asset management. [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 58
  • PIARC Ref. : 2017R05EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-455-6
• Road tunnel operations: First steps towards a sustainable approach

  

  In terms of sustainable development, the current situation in the field of infrastructure varies greatly from one country to another. Certain countries have laid down regulations; a few have set objectives to be achieved, while others have no regulations at all. So far, the World Road Association has [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 69
  • PIARC Ref. : 2017R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-470-9
• Vulnerable road users: Diagnosis of design and operational safety problems and potential countermeasures

  

  Following the World Health Organisation, nearly half of those dying on the world's roads are vulnerable road users (VRU). This proportion is much greater in low- and middle-income countries, because of the greater variety and intensity of traffic mix and the lack of separation from other road users, [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 26
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R34EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-442-6
• And what if the road of the future was already within our grasp?

  

  This article describes the breakthrough innovation called Wattway, the world's first photovoltaic road surfacing material.

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR374-047
• Coastal highway route E39 in Norway

  

  This presentation provides an overview of our new Coastal Highway Route E39 Project. It is planned to replace seven different ferry connections with pioneering designs and constructions: suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges, floating bridges, submerged floating tube bridges or a combination of these [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR374-024
• Innovation policy adopted by Morocco's Roads Directorate

  

  This article describes Morocco's Roads Directorate policy of innovation through the legal framework of the Government to stimulate corporate actions, along with: the financing of projects of qualitative benefit to this sector, the launch of a regional program to create innovative clusters, and subsidies [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR374-029
• Innovative road-building technologies dedicated to the innovative road

  

  This article presents a number of innovations devised by IFSTTAR and its partners in response to challenges raised by the ecological, energy and digital transitions taking place on today's highways.

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR374-019
• Key Techniques Used in the Design of Zhangjiajie's Grand Canyon Glass-Bottom Suspension Bridge

  

  This paper is intended to discuss some of the key techniques used in designing the Zhangjiajie bridge and provide a general introduction to the structure.

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR374-039
• Reuse opportunities for electric steel mill slag in Morocco's road-building sector

  

  This article describes techniques that reuse locally available materials or materials originating from an industrial source, as is the case with electric steel mill slag within the road community.

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR374-043