Study on Risk Management for Roads
PIARC C18 started its first term of activities in 2000, conducting two International Surveys, two International Seminars in Chile and Hungary, and a detailed Study on Risk Prevention and Management. This report is a compilation of essential findings and valuable information gathered through its activities of seminars and surveys. Its purpose is to give an overview about risk and crisis management indicating a general approach to methodology and describing the main activities of these processes. The major emphasis is given to risk management activities; this should facilitate setting up practical organisations, defining manuals and pointing out particular aspects of communication, cost-benefit models, funding, insurance, legal framework, etc. The same approach is followed for crisis management, stressing the actions and their practical outcome during and after a disaster occurence. The recommendations included in the report are about preventative measures, establishing methods / tools for risk identification, analysis, evaluation and treatment. Recent examples of natural and man-made disasters illustrate the complexity in dealing with these events.
Information sheet
- Date: 2004
- Author(s): Comité technique 18 Gestion des risques liés aux routes / Technical Committee 18 Risk Management for Roads
- Domain(s): Risk Management
- Type: Bilingual English-French
- PIARC Ref.: 18.01.BEN
- ISBN: 2-84060-178-8
- Number of pages: 84