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• Public Value Creation By Transport Agencies - A PIARC Literature Review

  

  Transport agencies around the world are facing a shift in their role within society. Traditionally tasked with building and maintaining physical infrastructure—roads, bridges, tunnels, public transport systems—these agencies have been historically evaluated by their technical efficiency: whether [...]

  • Date : 2026
  • Pages : 23
  • PIARC Ref. : 2026R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-796-0
• The Role of Innovative Its Technologies In Transport Sustainability - A PIARC High Impact Summary

  

  Global transport systems face increasing pressure to decarbonise, improve equity, and enhance resilience. ITS play a pivotal role in this transition, offering data ‑ driven, digital solutions that support sustainable, efficient, and user ‑ centric mobility. This high ‑ impact summary [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 28
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R10EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-844-8
• Envisioning the Transport Agency of the Future - A PIARC High Impact Summary

  

  Over the last decade, there have been unprecedented changes impacting the roads and transport sector with the rise of new technologies and service models, climate change, new forms of work and leisure, and the evolution of a complex and technology-enabled mobility ecosystem at a fast pace. This creates [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 25
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R05EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-782-3
• Envisioning The Transport Agency Of The Future - A PIARC Literature Review

  

  Over the last decade, there have been unprecedented changes impacting the roads and transport sector with the rise of new technologies and service models, climate change, new forms of work and leisure, and the evolution of a complex and technology-enabled mobility ecosystem at a fast pace. This creates [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 106
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R06EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-784-7
• 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, [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R04EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-
• Measures for Reducing Carbon Footprint of Pavements - A PIARC Collection of Case Studies

  

  This report contains a collection of case studies on measures to reduce the carbon footprint of pavements, leveraging the collective expertise and efforts of the authors, including contributions from experts worldwide, including from low and middle-income countries. The case studies include the [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 175
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-779-3
• 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 [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 123
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R56EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-778-6
• Low-Cost Pavement Systems

  

  This report presents the benefits of low-cost pavements to agencies and their challenges, based on real-life examples. It offers a methodology that can be adapted by the user to specific conditions or used as is with the suggested parameters. Low-Cost Pavement Systems are defined as infrastructure solutions [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 34
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-773-1
• Envisioning the Transport Agency of The Future – State of Knowledge

  

  Over the last decade, there have been unprecedented changes impacting the roads and transport sector with the rise of new technologies and service models, climate change, new forms of work and leisure, and the evolution of a complex and technology-enabled mobility ecosystem at a fast pace. This creates [...]

  • Date : 2024
  • Pages : 52
  • PIARC Ref. : 2024R01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-760-1
• 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 [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 29
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R52EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-756-4
• 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 [...]

  • Date : 2024
  • Pages : 74
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R48EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-752-6
• Disaster Management and Recovery Techniques for Road Administrators - Technical Report

  

  Road networks are one of the most important infrastructure elements that support all kinds of socio-economic activities. In the case of disasters, the role of a road network is more crucial. The purpose of road disaster management is to increase resilience of road networks, effectively and efficiently. [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 66
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R41EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-835-6
• Measures for Improving Resilience of Road Network - Technical Report

  

  Transportation infrastructure is vulnerable to threats such are natural and man-made hazards and each agency needs to improve their own ability to adequately and decisively respond to sudden and unforeseen challenges to infrastructure performance. It is pivotal for countries to learn from past experiences [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 98
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R38EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-826-4
• Models for Sight Distance in Road Design - A Worldwide Comparison of Standards - A PIARC Technical Report

  

  This report is the second of two planned publications of PIARC Task Force 4.1 “Road Design Standards” in the period 2020 – 2023. PIARC considered the importance of comparing international road design standards to check their updated status and the degree of their readiness to face the forthcoming [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 156
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R37EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-825-7
• Monitoring and Regulation to Reduce Overloading and Associated Infrastructure Damage on Road Networks - A PIARC Technical Report

  

  Overloaded trucks, non-compliance or poor vehicle conditions, driver fatigue and speeding remain main challenges in road freight transport, especially in Low-Middle-Income Countries (LMIC). These issues can cause severe road safety problems, substantial damage to the road infrastructure and environmental [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 51
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R35EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-824-0
• Renewal and Rejuvenation of Aging Infrastructure - Technical Report

  

  For the purpose of this research, “aging infrastructure” is defined as any road related assets that are approaching the end of their expected service life or have prematurely deteriorated in condition and are no longer providing the required level of service. This may be due to shorter service [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 106
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R29EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-805-9
• Greening of Freight Transport - Technical Report

  

  Global warming is a problem we experience every day including rising temperatures, rising water levels, and more frequent extreme weather events. As a major contributor to CO 2 emissions, freight transport must also be a part of the solution. The purpose of this technical report is to highlight [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 102
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R21EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-794-6
• Forensic Engineering for Structural Failures - Technical Report

  

  When a bridge collapse occurs, engineers investigate the cause of collapse to identify how design, materials, workmanship, and/or overloading affected structural performance. In this meaning, forensic engineering plays an important role in improving the safety of bridges. Engineers learn from the results [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 191
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R18EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-790-8
• Measures for improving resilience of pavements - Technical Report

  

  This report discusses resilience in pavements with regard to various vulnerability issues resulting from disruptions or hazards due to climate change, vehicular traffic, and natural and human-caused disasters. For the purpose of this report, resilience is approached from a “bottom up” or object [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 46
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R20EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-792-2
• Climate Change, Resilience and Disaster Management for Roads - Seminar

  

  Climate change and other hazards have a wide range of implications on the performance of road infrastructure and can cause disruptions to road network operations. For example, extreme rainfall influences the intensity beyond the drainage capacity of roadways, resulting in slope collapses and landslides [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 59
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R14EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-777-9
• It´s All About People – Defining and Promoting Diversity and New Talent Management - Technical Report

  

  Market dynamics within the transportation sector, and more specifically, emerging and disruptive technological advancements, have necessitated that Transport Administrations critically review how they proactively manage their unique organisational skills and capabilities in order to better serve current [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 100
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R12EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-773-1
• The Use of Big Data for Road Condition Monitoring - Briefing Note

  

  This briefing note provides an overview of numerous big data sources and the data-processing methods that can be used to analyse data for road condition monitoring. It focuses on solutions that allow data to be collected quickly, in real time and repeatedly, e.g. via CAN bus, smartphones, digital imagery, [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 8
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R04EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-746-5
• The Use of Big Data for Road Condition Monitoring - Literature Review

  

  This literature review provides an overview of numerous big data sources and the data-processing methods that can be used to analyse data for road condition monitoring. It focuses on solutions that allow data to be collected quickly, in real time and repeatedly, e.g. via CAN bus, smartphones, digital [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 85
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R03EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-745-8
• The Role of Transport Agencies in Shaping Disruptive Technologies and Service Models - Technical Report

  

  Under PIARC’s Strategic Plan 2020 - 2023, Technical Committee 1.1 (Performance of Transport Administrations) have sought to research challenges and emerging responses for transport agencies in understanding and successfully shaping disruptive technologies and service models. Key technologies within [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 83
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-738-0
• The Role of Transport Agencies in Shaping Disruptive Technologies and Service Models – High Impact Summary

  

  This document is a High Impact Summary of the Final Report on The Role of Transport Agencies in Shaping Disruptive Technologies and Service Models produced by PIARC Technical Committee 1.1 through its Working Group. Under PIARC’s Strategic Plan 2020 - 2023, Technical Committee 1.1 (Performance [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-742-7