French Strategy for Developing Carpooling: a Combined Approach between Mobility Services and Transport InfrastructurePIARC Prize - Decarbonation

Transport is the activity that contributes most to France’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Various studies highlight that local journeys of less than 80 km are responsible for 70% of emissions, 80% of which occur in urban areas, and more specifically in the outskirts of metropolitan areas. This situation is the result of various factors: widespread urbanisation encouraged by car use, delays in the development of the rail network and low-density urban planning in the suburbs.

Advancing Climate Resilience in Transportation: The BC Ministry of Transportation & Transit Resilience SystemPIARC Prizes - Resilience

British Columbia’s transportation network is increasingly threatened by climate change, as shown by recent extreme weather events that have damaged infrastructure and disrupted key corridors. With limited funding and a vast inventory of roads, bridges, and culverts, the BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit (MoTT) recognizes that traditional, asset-by-asset adaptation is no longer viable.

Development of Action Plans as Part of the Implementation of a Sustainable Winter Service Programme

The Evian Impluvium is the preferential infiltration site of the Evian hydromineral deposit. It is recognised as being of international importance and is protected from chlorides through a framework agreement on the environmental control of road maintenance in winter. The Association for the Protection of the Evian Mineral Water Impluvium (APIEME) is testing and implementing an action plan in partnership with the Department of Haute-Savoie and the 13 municipalities which are members of APIEME. [...]

Development of Autonomous Snow Blowers Using the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System on Expressways in Japan

The rotary snow blower vehicle operated for removing accumulated snow on road shoulders must be performed even in conditions of a poor visibility due to a snowstorm or road markings completely covered by snow. The operators of the vehicle must pay full attention to avoid contacting road structures and ordinary cars passing just beside the snow blower. Therefore, we have developed a high-precision snow blower positioning device using a quasi- zenith satellite system and a high-precision expressway [...]

The SISMET Method: a Preliminary Assessment Tool to Determine Seismic Risk on Urban and Peri-Urban Road Infrastructures in a Crisis Management Context

The aim of the SISMET method is to carry out a preliminary seismic risk assessment on existing road infrastructures in an urban or peri-urban context. At the scale of a route or a route section, this method is based on the definition and assessment of vulnerability criteria relating to the various structures that comprise it (bridges, retaining walls, tunnels and road slopes). These vulnerability criteria are then combined with the various direct and indirect hazard parameters which could threaten [...]