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• Mainstreaming Biodiversity within Road Infrastructure Projects - A PIARC Collection of Case Studies

  

  This document is an appendix to the Full Report 2023R44EN, and it contains the Case Studies collected by the WG3.4.3 team; the chapters listed here are those that structure the Full Report. The case studies illustrate the theoretical elements written in the Full Report. The development of transport [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 90
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R45EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-837-0
• Mainstreaming Biodiversity within Road Infrastructure Projects - A PIARC Technical Report

  

  The development of transport infrastructure is one of the basic elements of the development of countries and their economies. Economic development is often accompanied by environmental protection problems, including biodiversity impacts, because they have not been taken enough into account. Preventing [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 72
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R44EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-832-5
• Low Emission Zones – Planning and Implementation - A PIARC Briefing Note

  

  Air pollution problems are often observed in the roadside areas of metropolitan regions, where a lot of emission sources such as factories, business offices, residential houses and vehicles accumulate. Increasing congestion in cities with no or limited restrictions on driving in urban areas is contributing [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 24
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R43EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-831-8
• Near Road Air Quality - A PIARC Briefing Note

  

  “Air pollution problems are often observed in the roadside areas of metropolitan regions, where a lot of emission sources such as factories, business offices, residential houses and vehicles accumulate. Such air pollutions are caused by emissions of SO2, NO2, CO, HC, PM10, PM2.5 etc. which are designated [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 12
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R42EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-830-1
• Electric Road Systems – A Route to Net Zero - Technical Report

  

  The international Paris Agreement about climate change calls for action in every aspect of the modern society. The world’s road transport sector is responsible for a considerable amount of the total CO₂ emissions, so there is an urgent need for decarbonising the road transport sector. To achieve [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 187
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R30EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-807-3
• PIARC International Climate Change Adaptation Framework 2023 – Technical Report

  

  Climate change is a strategic risk to road organisations. Global climate change projections show that there will be gradual changes to average climatic conditions, and changes to the frequency, severity and location of extreme weather events. These climate changes are anticipated to have significant [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 391
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R28EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-803-5
• Case Studies on Travel Behavior Data Collection in Metropolitan Regions - Briefing Note

  

  A large number of people have been gathering in and around the cities. Transport infrastructure provision and land-use regulations cause cities to expand towards their outskirts creating urban sprawl and convert rural areas into peri-urban areas. So, understanding how the burden caused by the low-density [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 50
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R25EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-798-4
• 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
• Evaluating Impacts of New Mobility in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas - Collection of case studies

  

  In urban areas, accessing services, education, workplaces and/or goods requires efficient mobility systems. In recent years, various transport technology developments have started to enable more efficient mobility across the world. Innovative transport solutions and sharing contracts, including new [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 124
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R15EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-778-6
• Multimodal Solutions for Optimizing -Road Networks in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas - Case Studies

  

  The current collection of case studies is part of a set of six publications of Technical Committee 2.1 Mobility in Urban Areas expected for the 2020-2023 cycle. Mobility in urban areas faces complex problems which need to be managed within spatial and budgetary constraints. It is therefore necessary [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 187
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R05EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-747-2
• Climate Change, Other Hazards and Resilience of Road Networks - Collection of Case Studies

  

  This report contains a collection of case studies related to climate change, other hazards and resilience of road networks. It comprises an introduction, outlining the work program for Technical Committee (TC) 1.4 Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks, and objectives of two Working Groups within [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 56
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022R33EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-733-5
• Electric Road Systems - Collection of Case Studies

  

  The collection of case studies report on electric road systems (ERS) provides an overview of the activities of PIARC Task Force 2.2 to date. This includes an overview of the tasks and activities of the Task Force as well as the progress made to date in terms of collection and review of literature, collection [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 76
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022R31EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-730-4
• Measures for Increasing the Adaptability of Road Bridges to Climate Change - Literature Review

  

  The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group 2 report states that changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Key risks from climate change are typically defined as warming trend, extreme temperature, precipitation, [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 13
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022R24EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-710-6
• Preserve Earthworks and Rural Roads from the Impact of Climate Changes - Technical Report

  

  This report puts together good practices on the various regional approaches to the impacts of climate change on roads and little hydraulic works. The subject has already been addressed during previous PIARC cycles but more on the general geotechnical aspect. It includes the definition of the climatic [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 134
  • PIARC Ref. : 2020R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-626-0
• Best Practice Guide to Air Quality in Relation to Road Operations - Technical Report

  

  Air pollution linked to road transport has received significant political, media and public attention since the mid 2010s. However, despite improvements in vehicle efficiencies over past decades, emissions from vehicles still contribute significantly to concentrations of air pollutants above standards [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 171
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R31EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-566-9
• Green Paving Solutions and Sustainable Pavement Materials - Technical Report

  

  This report summarizes the current state-of-the practice for sustainable pavement techniques and the incentives used to encourage their use. Green paving solutions were identified in addition to identification of barriers to their wider implementation. Information contained in this report is based on [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 58
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R32EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-567-6
• Journey Time and Travel Reliability - Technical Report

  

  Travel time reliability has been put by all stakeholders in the transport arena at the centre of attention: transport planners, operators and users agree on the need to take actions for more reliable transport systems. Although the framework is clear in terms of the stakeholders’ claims, the theoretical [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 92
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R35EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-570-6
• Reducing the Life Cycle Carbon Footprint of Pavements - Technical Report

  

  This report reviews innovations reported to reduce the carbon footprint of pavements and contains a critical review of the assessment of carbon footprint of pavements. There are numerous other environmental indicators for road pavements, but these were outside the scope of this report which focuses [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 64
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R33EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-568-3
• Traffic Noise – Best Practice Guide - Technical Report

  

  In recent years, knowledge about the health effects of traffic noise has grown substantially. Many studies have found that long-term exposure to traffic noise is associated with various health impacts such as sleep disturbance, cardiovascular disease and depression. While there remain knowledge gaps [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 214
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R36EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-571-3
• Refinement of PIARC’s International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure - Technical Report

  

  Climate change will have significant impacts on the design, construction, maintenance and operation of global road infrastructure. IPCC projections estimate that the Earth will become warmer, some regions will become wetter overall and some will become drier, sea levels will rise and storm surge height [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 66
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R30EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-577-5
• Adaptation Methodologies and Strategies to Increase the Resilience of Roads to Climate Change - Technical Report

  

  Climate Change is anticipated to have a significant impact on the design, construction, maintenance and operation of global road infrastructure. The IPCC Climate change projections indicate that the earth will become warmer, some regions will become wetter and some will become drier, sea levels will [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 104
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R25EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-558-4
• Sustainable Multimodality in Urban Regions - Technical Report

  

  Globalization and specialization have enabled cities to flourish and have led to the concentration of activities and populations, resulting in an increase in urban transport needs and a scarcity of public space. In these urban areas characterized by high population and employment densities, congestion [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 145
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R13EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-527-0
• Low Cost ITS - Technical Report

  

  The Low Cost ITS concept was introduced for the first time during PIARC 2012-2015 cycle. The concept described ITS services that were attractive to resource limited or Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). This was possible because of the recent emergence of inexpensive technological solutions including [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 122
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R07EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-510-2
• Key issues for improving mobility strategies in large urban areas

  

  During the period 2012 - 2015, Technical Committee 2.2 collected and evaluated case studies on urban mobility from numerous large and medium-sized cities from all over the world. Three issues were evaluated in these case studies: a comparison of strategies for sustainable urban mobility, at a mobility [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 101
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R27EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-427-3
• Appraisal of Sustainability of Transport Infrastructure Plans and Programs

  

  This report gives a scanning overview of the current state of the art on the topic of the appraisal of sustainability within the development of transport plans and investment programs, respectively the extent to which decisions made in this context have taken account of sustainability. The report is [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 52
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R29EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-431-0