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Publications Routes/Road Road assets management

This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of road assets management. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Status report following 15 years of institutional reforms within sub-saharan road administrations

    Beginning in the 1970's, most African countries were experiencing economic and financial hardship faced with extremely tight cash flow situations. These difficulties led to a slowing of capital investment flows into the transportation sector and a reduction in annual budgets allocated to the road network. The magnitude of these difficulties incited reflection on the types of structural adjustments to be implemented within road administrations of Africa's sub-Saharan countries as of the 1990's, with [...]

  • A contractor's perspective on the impact of new contract forms

    Based on the example of the Private Finance Initiative ("PFI") contract awarded for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the street network in the city of Portsmouth, assessment herein the influence of PPP (public-private partnerships) and other innovative contracting practices on road industry organization and interactions with other parties to the construction process.

  • The development of road management system in Latvia after the regaining of independence

    Latvia is one of the three Baltic states, which gained independence in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed. Latvia lies by the Baltic Sea and it borders on Estonia in the North, Russian and Byelorussian in the East, and Lithuania in the South. The lenght of its sea borber is 494 kilometres, and the length of the land border is 1 196 kilometres. Latvia has a wide network of transport lines which insures not only the inland but also the transit transport. The lenght of the tranpost lines in the [...]

  • Toll motorways

    This article presente the results of a very extensive survey of the status of toll motorways in europe, which illustrates the efficienency of the toll road system very well. At the end of 1992, 13 European countries had part of their road system costs directly met by users; in particular, tolls were levied on 16 239 km of road, of which 15 537 km were motorways. On the basis of an agreement signed in Brussels, the twelve member nations of the Europeas Community (EC), at the time, reached an understanding [...]

  • International experiment to compare and to harmonize pavement texture and skid resistance measurement methods

    This paper summaries the results of an International Experiment to compare and harmonise methodes of measuring pavement texture and skid resistance. This work was initiated in 1988 by the PIARC Technical Committee on Surface Characteristics (Committee C1). The tests were conducted in September and October 1992. 54 sites, having concrete surface with a wide variety of different characteristics, were selected between four main types of device, and evalutes the repeatability of the measurements. It [...]