Publications Routes/Roads policies
This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of road policies. These publications are classified chronologically.
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Introductory article
The articles expose the complexity of responding to the two climate change challenges.
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Evaluation to make transport "safe, clean and affordable"
This article shows how the World Bank thinks about transport policies and projects.
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Social impacts of road projects and road pricing effects. Key findings
This article describes the results of an extensive report featuring road pricing schemes descriptions from over 20 countries as well as evaluations of their impacts from many of these countries.
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Introductory article: new developments in the evaluation of road projects
The papers in this volume give a good insight of the broad range of tasks to be addressed by the scientific community and the responsible persons in charge in the road administrations.
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A new scheme for evaluating road projects by considering their effects after disasters - A challenge for Japan just after the great earthquake of March 2011
In March 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit the northeastern area of Japan. This was the world's fourth largest earthquake since 1900.