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ROADLETTER
March - April 2023

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EDITORIAL
PIARC PUBLICATIONS
HIGHLIGHTS
UPCOMING EVENTS

PIARC reinvents its newsletter, now renamed ROADLETTER!

EDITORIAL

At PIARC we organise numerous events, such as World Road Congresses, seminars in low- and middle-income countries, conferences such as SURF or our Tunnels Conference. They are great opportunities to compare experiences and best practice, and to engage with colleagues from the road sector. 

Another of our activities is just as important: PIARC technical reports. They represent a key output for the international experts who work in our more than 20 Committees and Task Forces and who contribute so much of their time to our Association. [...]

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Patrick Malléjacq
Secretary General of PIARC

PIARC PUBLICATIONS

Discover the latest issue of our magazine Routes/Roads, dedicated to tunnels! 

This issue #396 is dedicated to the latest state of the art in the world of tunnels. It is based on the best papers from the 2nd International Conference on Tunnels, jointly organised by PIARC and the Technical Association of Roads of Spain in Granada in October 2022.

>> Consult it

Good Practices in Maintenance and Traffic Operation of Heavily Trafficked Urban Road Tunnels 

Technical report

Maintenance and operation of heavily trafficked urban road tunnels is one of, if not the most outstanding challenge for authorities, owners, operators and designers of tunnels. This full report details the challenges and inherent good practices [...]

>> Read here

The Role of Transport Agencies in Shaping Disruptive Technologies and Service Models 

High Impact Summary

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. [...]

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The Use Of Big Data For Road Condition Monitoring 

Literature Review

This literature review provides an overview of numerous big data sources and the data-processing methods that can be used to analyse data for road condition monitoring. It focuses on solutions that allow data to be collected quickly, in real time and repeatedly [...]

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Customer Experience and Public Value Creation 

Technical report

This report presents the approaches currently happening across the world in respect of delivering an improved experience for all our customers and stakeholders. The methodology was to look at three components bringing to account an understanding [...]

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HIGHLIGHTS

One week left to take advantage of the best rates for the World Road Congress! 

Register before 3 May to benefit from the early bird rates.

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Senegal hosted our International Seminar on road asset management last month! 

Our “Performance-based Asset Management of Land Transport Infrastructure and Services for Sustainable Development” seminar was held in Dakar from 7 to 9 March.

>> Read article

A new PIARC National Committee is coming: Kazakhstan! 

To that end, PIARC and Kazakhstan signed a memorandum on the occasion of the visit of President Nazir Alli.

>> Read article

PIARC received representatives from Moldova in Paris! 

This was an opportunity to reactivate our cooperation, especially in view of the next World Road Congress.

>> Read article

PIARC Global Road Safety Knowledge Exchange. 

Ana-Luz JIMENEZ ORTEGA presents the management system for road safety.

>> Watch now!

UPCOMING EVENTS

International Seminar "Resilient, sustainable and safe rural roads & earth structures for a better future" 

May 3-5
Tunis (Tunisia)

International Workshop "Inspection, management and rehabilitation of Road Bridges" 

May 11
Kobe (Japan)

International Seminar "Innovative road operation concepts for safe and sustainable mobility" 

May 11-13
Rabat (Morocco)

International Seminar "Road Mobility Projects in Urban Regions and their Impact on the Environment" 

May 15-17
Buenos Aires (Argentina)

International Seminar "Sustainable Road Freight Transport for economic and social development" 

May 31 - June 2
Arusha (Tanzania)

Technology convergence 2023 

November 6-10
Brisbane (Australia)

TRB Transportation Resilience 2023 “3rd International Conference on Resilience to Natural Hazards and Extreme Weather Events” 

November 13-15
Washington DC (USA)

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