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Technical Reports Design of inter-urban roads

This page lists technical reports of PIARC in the field of design of inter-urban roads. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Safety Improvement on Interurban Roads

    Part one of the report is intended for political decision makers, to persuade them that implementing specific safety programmes is useful, getting them to understand that safety operations are not necessarily complicated and expensive. When road improvement schemes are programmed on the basis of multiple objectives, decision makers should give priority to the safety aspect. The remainder of the report concerns both decision makers and engineers. Apart from localized "black spot" type methods, [...]