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• Envisioning the Transport Agency of The Future – State of Knowledge

  

  Over the last decade, there have been unprecedented changes impacting the roads and transport sector with the rise of new technologies and service models, climate change, new forms of work and leisure, and the evolution of a complex and technology-enabled mobility ecosystem at a fast pace. This creates [...]

  • Date : 2024
  • Pages : 52
  • PIARC Ref. : 2024R01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-
• Super-Single Tires Configuration Overview

  

  Development of road freight transport is led by economic growth and efficiency. The impact of road freight on infrastructure is very important for road authorities. Physically, the impact on pavement is directly linked to the pressure exerted by vehicle loads, which highly depends on global vehicle [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 29
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R52EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-756-4
• It´s All About People – Defining and Promoting Diversity and New Talent Management - Technical Report

  

  Market dynamics within the transportation sector, and more specifically, emerging and disruptive technological advancements, have necessitated that Transport Administrations critically review how they proactively manage their unique organisational skills and capabilities in order to better serve current [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 100
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R12EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-773-1
• The Role of Transport Agencies in Shaping Disruptive Technologies and Service Models - Technical Report

  

  Under PIARC’s Strategic Plan 2020 - 2023, Technical Committee 1.1 (Performance of Transport Administrations) have sought to research challenges and emerging responses for transport agencies in understanding and successfully shaping disruptive technologies and service models. Key technologies within [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 83
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-738-0
• The Role of Transport Agencies in Shaping Disruptive Technologies and Service Models – High Impact Summary

  

  This document is a High Impact Summary of the Final Report on The Role of Transport Agencies in Shaping Disruptive Technologies and Service Models produced by PIARC Technical Committee 1.1 through its Working Group. Under PIARC’s Strategic Plan 2020 - 2023, Technical Committee 1.1 (Performance [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-742-7
• Electric Road Systems - Collection of Case Studies

  

  The collection of case studies report on electric road systems (ERS) provides an overview of the activities of PIARC Task Force 2.2 to date. This includes an overview of the tasks and activities of the Task Force as well as the progress made to date in terms of collection and review of literature, collection [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 76
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022R31EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-730-4
• Diversity and Talent Management in Transport Administrations – The Road to Success? - Litterature Review

  

  The World Road Association (PIARC) tasked the Technical Committee 1.1 (Performance of Transport Administrations) to analyze effective approaches for defining and promoting Diversity in opportunity across the roads and transportation sectors, and for attracting new talents into the transport industry [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 23
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022R01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-670-3
• How Countries Undertake Well-Prepared Projects: A Review on Ten Countries - Litterature Review

  

  It is well acknowledged that good project preparation tends to deliver better outcomes (benefits) as well as providing good project management performance (with respect to budget, delays and quality). This report presents processes put in place in 10 countries to deliver well-prepared transport projects. [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 63
  • PIARC Ref. : 2021LR03EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-651-2
• Principles for Cooperation and Collaboration between National and Local Road Agencies - Technical Report

  

  This report analyses general areas of cooperation amongst road authorities at the various levels and the various institutional tools utilised to ensure integration. The need for cooperation between national, federal, provincial, state, local and municipal road agencies is becoming more pronounced. Noting [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 235
  • PIARC Ref. : 2020R01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-625-3
• Best Practice Guide to Air Quality in Relation to Road Operations - Technical Report

  

  Air pollution linked to road transport has received significant political, media and public attention since the mid 2010s. However, despite improvements in vehicle efficiencies over past decades, emissions from vehicles still contribute significantly to concentrations of air pollutants above standards [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 171
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R31EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-566-9
• Refinement of PIARC’s International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure - Technical Report

  

  Climate change will have significant impacts on the design, construction, maintenance and operation of global road infrastructure. IPCC projections estimate that the Earth will become warmer, some regions will become wetter overall and some will become drier, sea levels will rise and storm surge height [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 66
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R30EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-577-5
• Best practices of good governance - Institutional integrity

  

  The increasing demands of Civil Society regarding accountability and transparency lead to promote institutional integrity and to act decisively against corruption. This counts the more for the road sector which has proven to be particularly vulnerable to corruption. This report presents: - key definitions [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 117
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R17EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-257-1
• Institutional integrity - Toolkit

  

  The increasing demands of Civil Society regarding accountability and transparency lead to promote institutional integrity and to act decisively against corruption. This counts the more for the road sector which has proven to be particularly vulnerable to corruption. In this context, Technical Committee [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 20
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R18EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-277-6
• Financing, Contracting and Managing of Road System Investment

  

  The purpose of this report is to provide information on the current methods and approaches relating to: The different combinations of public and private sector involvement in the provision of sustainable road systems and the perceived advantages and disadvantages of these methods; The different [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 101
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R08EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-255-5
• Worldwide situation of road pricing and assessment of its impacts

  

  The report of Technical Committee " Road System Economics and Social Development " presents the state of road pricing schemes implemented or studied in the world, the corresponding developments and an assessment of their impacts. The panorama of pricing schemes covers the following twenty-two countries: [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 246
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R01EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-242-3
• CD-ROUTE

  Minimum Equipment Required CD-ROUTE can be used on PC (386 at least, Windows 3.1, 95 & NT) and Macintosh® (68020 at least), Power Mac®, Mac OS version 7. Minimum equipment required: 16 Mo RAM, a hard disk and a 14'' colour screen (256 colours or more). The program is very easy to install. [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • PIARC Ref. : CD-ROUTEEN
• How to apply the concepts of sustainable development to transport?

  

  This report has been produced by Technical Committee C2.1. Sustainable Development and Road Transport and provides an analysis of "How to apply the concepts of Sustainable Development to Transport?" from the approaches implemented in a few cases - either policies, programmes or projects. These cases [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 127
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R08EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-198-2
• Modelling Road User and Environmental Effects in HDM-4

  This document is the seventh volume in the series of seven volumes of HDM-4 documentation. It covers modelling road user and environmental effects (RUEE). The report presents an overview of how they are introduced in studies and describes representative vehicles. The second section deals with road [...]

  • Date : 2004
  • Pages : 412
  • PIARC Ref. : HDM4-Volume7EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-103-6
• ITS Manual - 2nd edition

  Following the success of the ITS Handbook 2000, the PIARC Technical Committee on Network Operations has completed a new and extended edition. This new edition takes into account the experience gained over the last years; it provides information about the status of implementation of ITS technologies [...]

  • Date : 2006
  • Pages : 450
  • PIARC Ref. : Manuel STI - 2e edition / ITS Handbook - 2nd editionEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-188-5 Edition française / 1-58053-103-2 English version
• Survey of focused funding of environmental mitigation

  

  Concerns about environmental quality, social equity and economic vitality have converged to produce a growing interest in the concept of sustainable development. Efforts are being made all over the world to increase the sustainability of development patterns and road transport. In countries throughout [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 35
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R03EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-191-5
• Measures promoting alternatives to the road and intermodal terminals

  

  La croissance très importante du transport de marchandises par la route rend nécessaire la recherche d'une utilisation optimale des différents modes de transport dans une perspective de développement durable. Ce rapport présente les tendances et problèmes clés dans le transport intermodal. Il [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 175
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R02EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-192-3
• Social and environmental approaches to sustainable transport infrastructures

  

  Based on a survey performed in different countries facing various economic development contexts and on case studies, this report studies: how is sustainable development dealt with in politics, planning, strategy and operation; what are the methods, targets and criteria used to assess sustainability; [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 124
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R01EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-190-7
• 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
• 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
• 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