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Technical Reports Road assets management

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

  • Road Closure Criteria - A PIARC Briefing Note - At a Glance of World Practices - SOON AVAILABLE

    This report provides an extensive overview of road closures due to extreme weather events and their practical applications, as discussed by the PIARC TC1.5. It compiles information on road closures during extreme weather events worldwide, as well as insights from experts and practitioners in the field. The report aims to provide administrative agencies and road managers with useful reference materials to help ensure the safety of road users. As extreme weather events have become more severe and [...]

  • Challenges In Resilience Building For Road Disaster Management Coordination And Cooperation In Different Regions - Summary of PIARC & REAAA Joint Session at the IARC Osaka Workshop, May 2025

    The international workshop was organized by the World Road Association (PIARC) through its Technical Committee 1.5, "Disaster Management," and the Japan Road Association (JARA). The Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (REAAA) collaborated with the event through its Climate Change, Resilience, and Disaster Management Committee. The workshop theme was "Road Disaster Management: Enhancing Coordination, Cooperation, and Diversity". This event provided information on the latest disaster [...]

  • Guidelines for the Implementation of ISO 55001 in Road Organizations

    “Asset Management” as defined in ISO standards 55001, aims to enable an organization to obtain value from assets. ISO 55001 offers a structured approach to asset management by focusing on implementation of “risk-based, information-driven, planning and decision-making processes and activities that transform organizational objectives into asset management plans”. To obtain the highest profitability and perform the best possible management of an asset throughout its useful life, from its construction [...]

  • Super-Single Tires Configuration Overview

    Development of road freight transport is led by economic growth and efficiency. The impact of road freight on infrastructure is very important for road authorities. Physically, the impact on pavement is directly linked to the pressure exerted by vehicle loads, which highly depends on global vehicle weight but also on tires configuration. Looking for more cost-efficient transport, hauliers are looking for trucks that have lower maintenance costs with higher loading capacity. To address this demand, [...]

  • BIM and Digitalization in Road Asset Management

    The objective of the work carried out by WG 1 within the field of BIM and Digitalization has been fundamentally to carry out an analysis of the state of the art worldwide of how Digitalization is being applied in Road Asset Management and the BIM methodology. within the same area. From the content of the document, it can be deduced how the level of digitalization in Road Asset Management has reached a high level of technology, however, from what the reader of this report can deduce, there is [...]