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Road Maintenance

30 September 2004, Montpellier (France)

The PIARC Council held its 2004 meeting in Montpellier at the invitation of Partice Parisé, French First Delegate, and Yves Robichon, Chair of the French National Committee. 

The topics proposed and the regional geographic distribution have ensured a good world overview and an interesting debate about road infrastructure.

Country

Title

Speaker
Germany

New importance of road maintenance and of maintenance management in Germany (presentation - text)

W. Hahn
Argentina

System C.RE.MA. (Recovery Contracts and Maintenance of Roads) today in Argentina(presentation)

J.C. Ortiz Andino
Australia

Bridge management in Australia (presentation - text)

D. Anderson
Austria

Assessment of financial investments for the maintenance of the road network (presentation - text)

F. Zotter
Congo

The issue of financing road maintenance in Congo (text)

J.M. Mbaucaud
USA

Maintenance of road infrastructures. Lessons learned (presentation)

A. Barkawi

Finland

Performance based contracting: toward better customer service (presentation - text)

E. Karjaluoto
Japan

Road maintenance emphasizing on communication with road users (presentation)

T. Nakajima

Slovakia

Regionalisation of the road administration and road asset and update of the motorway and expressway programme (presentation)

P. Barek
France

Reorganising road maintenance in France

P. Parisé

After the debate, Claude Morzier (Switzerland), Chair of C4.1 Management of Road Infrastructure Assets, presented the issues of this Committee and the experiences lived since the inaugural meetings of the Technical Committees in March and April 2004. (presentation)