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Technical Reports Governance of road authorities

This page lists technical reports of PIARC in the field of Governance of road authorities. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Role and Positioning of the Road Administration

    A Working Group of PIARC Committee C15 analyzed various aspects of the organization, roles and responsibilities of Road Administrations worldwide, in relation to external factors, such as economic development, social demands, environmental and safety concerns, technological development and political concerns. The analysis relies on 36 answers to a questionnaire. The document presents the conclusions drawn on external factors, the link between economic development and the road network, the role and [...]

  • Social Acceptance of Road Infrastructure Projects

    This report, which has been drawn up on the basis of an initial questionnaire distributed to the PIARC C4, aims primarily to provide answers, illustrated by a number of annexed examples, to the following questions: 1) What are the different levels of acceptance or recognition of projects that can be considered as universal values able to explain the social acceptance concept? 2) Based on examples of project development processes provided by the countries, what are the key stages in which it [...]

  • Development of tools for Performance Measurement

    This report constitutes the synthesis of the work carried out by the C15 PIARC Committee on the theme: "Development of Performance Measuring Tools". It aims at showing the principal performance indicators used in the PIARC countries and the use which can be made of them in order to improve the efficiency of road authorities. The report is based on an OECD study on "Performance Indicators for the Road Sector" and on a detailed survey of the C15 member states.

  • Quality systems and improved performance

    The initial discussions of working group of the PIARC Technical Committee on Performance of Road Administrations (C15) on quality systems indicated that they were being used by road administrations to improve management at both the organisational and project level. The working group developed a conceptual framework to show the relationship between organisation-wide quality systems and project level quality systems. The development of this conceptual model was done in cooperation with the PIARC [...]

  • Restructuring of the Road Sector

    The aim of this report is to answer the question 'who is responsible for what' in dealing with road infrastructure and road transport issues concentrating strictly on organizational rather than financial issues even if it is often difficult to separate one from the other. The information contained in this report was collected from member countries using a questionnaire on: administration levels and road network; systems for financing; responsibilities and legislative functions of the various [...]