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• Survey of focused funding of environmental mitigation

  

  Concerns about environmental quality, social equity and economic vitality have converged to produce a growing interest in the concept of sustainable development. Efforts are being made all over the world to increase the sustainability of development patterns and road transport. In countries throughout [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 35
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R03EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-191-5
• Social and environmental approaches to sustainable transport infrastructures

  

  Based on a survey performed in different countries facing various economic development contexts and on case studies, this report studies: how is sustainable development dealt with in politics, planning, strategy and operation; what are the methods, targets and criteria used to assess sustainability; [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 124
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R01EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-190-7
• CD-7802 - Pavement Recycling (Guidelines)

  This document, realised by the PIARC Technical Committee on Road Pavements (C7/8), is avaible only on CD-ROM. It contains three different guidelines: cold in place recycling of pavements with cement, cold in place recycling of pavements with bitumen emulsion or foamed bitumen, and hot mix [...]

  • Date : 2003
  • Pages : 160
  • PIARC Ref. : 78.02.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-153-2
• Environment and Construction of Road Projects

  One work area of the PIARC Committee on the Environment concerns the consequences of the construction of road projects. In July 1997, an inquiry was sent to all PIARC member countries. It dealt with the five major topics identified by the Working Group: soil and water protection; how to deal with contaminated [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 80
  • PIARC Ref. : 14.03.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-122-2
• Environmental and Health Aspects Related to Working with Bituminous Mixtures

  This report describes the arrangements made to limit the impact of dust and gaseous emissions in particular, both at the production and laying stage of bituminous mixtures. It also reviews the state of the art in the evaluation of health risks to workers on paver, with emphasis on the large difference [...]

  • Date : 1995
  • Pages : 32
  • PIARC Ref. : 08.04.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-032-3
• Environmental Impact of Existing Pavements

  The management of negative consequences such as the deterioration of the living environment, road hazard, energy consumption, air pollution, noise, biotope modification and road congestion are today's major challenges. We often talk about the long term but work on a short-term basis without any realistically-targeted, [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 136
  • PIARC Ref. : 14.02.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-121-4
• Evaluation and Limitation of Impacts social and environmental for Road Networks and Transport Policies

  

  One work area of the PIARC Committee 14 on "Sustainable development and Road Transport" concerns the evaluation and limitation of impacts of road networks and transport policies. The Road is life (Via Vita). This are the words contained in the logo of the World Road Association established in 1909. [...]

  • Date : 2004
  • Pages : 274
  • PIARC Ref. : 14.05.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-163-X
• Evaluation of Transport Performance Measures for Cities

  

  Managers of transport organizations need to make decisions that contribute to city objectives that are broader than just transportation efficiency. There is an increasing awareness that there are linkages between transport and other public policy domains: safety, the environment, the economy, social [...]

  • Date : 2003
  • Pages : 104
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.14.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-94060-160-5
• Intermodality: Measures to Stimulate Public Transport Usage

  This is the report of the activities from PIARC Committee on Urban Areas sub-group on intermodality, which deals with traveller intermodality in which public transport plays a major role. The activities of this subgroup have been focused on public transport measures and other measures that affect public [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 110
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.11.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-120-6
• Parking Policies

  This report attempts to provide a global insight into parking policies. It describes the parking systems in several large cities (Brussels, Montreal, Quebec City, Prague, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Grenoble, Lyons, Nice, Budapest, Milan, Nagoya, Yokohama, London). The report contains a comparative [...]

  • Date : 1995
  • Pages : 77
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.06.BEN
  • ISBN : RRspécial-I-1995
• Pollution by Nitrogen Dioxide in Road Tunnels

  

  This report has been prepared by the PIARC Committee on Road Tunnel Operation (C5) working group n° 2 devoted to Pollution, Ventilation and Environment. Awareness of the problem raised by nitrogen oxides in urban environment which came up following pollution phenomena (e.g. in London in 1952) has [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 48
  • PIARC Ref. : 05.09.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-127-3
• Priority to Public Transport and Other High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV)on Urban Roads

  The PIARC Committee on Urban Areas has reviewed the measures used by its member countries to assist the movement of public transport and other high occupancy vehicles [HOVs] on urban road networks with a view to disseminating more widely knowledge of good practice in the efficient use of congested road [...]

  • Date : 1995
  • Pages : 45
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.07.BEN
  • ISBN : RRspécial-II-1995
• Reduction of Car Traffic in City Centers

  Drafted by the PIARC Technical Committee on Roads in Urban Areas, this report takes as its starting-point the increasing problems caused by car traffic in large towns. The report lists a number of proposed solutions and their consequences, illustrated by examples from various large towns. Economic control [...]

  • Date : 1990
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.01.BEN
• Road Tunnels: Emissions, Environment, Ventilation

  Due to a steady tightening of emission laws for cars and changes in the risk assessment of a tunnel fire, some design data need constant updating. The Report of the PIARC Committee on Road Tunnels to the XXth World Road Congress, 1995 (20.05.B) reviews the art of tunnel ventilation over the last 15 [...]

  • Date : 1996
  • Pages : 64
  • PIARC Ref. : 05.02.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-034-X
• Road Tunnels: Vehicle Emissions and Air Demand for Ventilation

  

  In 1990 and 1995 PIARC published the calculation methodology and the emission factors for road tunnel ventilation design. An update of the existing PIARC methodology was necessary, as the emission standards of the vehicles were becoming more stringent and hence the vehicles cleaner. The old version [...]

  • Date : 2004
  • Pages : 72
  • PIARC Ref. : 05.14.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-177-X
• The Environment in Transport Policy

  This report presents and evaluates the results of a survey on how environmental concerns influence transport policies in some PIARC member countries. Conclusions and recommendations are based on the national practices identified by the survey, on the discussions of the PIARC Technical Committee on the [...]

  • Pages : 96
  • PIARC Ref. : 14.01.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-098-6
• The Urban Road Network Design

  Urban development is determined among others by roads and streets. A good design will act as a catalyst, but a bad design will eventually paralyze life in the town or city. To enhance the unity between urban and road design, the urban road network must be reorganized. Urban roads must serve a variety [...]

  • Date : 1991
  • Pages : 40
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.04.BEN
• Through Traffic in Small Towns

  This report was written by two Technical Committees of PIARC, PIARC Technical Committee on Interurban Roads (C4) and PIARC Technical Committee on Roads in Urban Areas (C10). The report summarizes the experience of several countries (Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, [...]

  • Date : 1991
  • Pages : 44
  • PIARC Ref. : 04.03.BEN
• Traffic Management and Quality of Service

  The Topic Area Traffic Management and Quality of Service deals with several issues from the PIARC Strategic Plan for the period of 1995 - 1999. It deals with (1.2) "improving quality standards for design, construction, equipment and maintenance", (4.1) "improving traffic planning and management, taking [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • Pages : 96
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.12.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-118-4
• Transport and Urban Development

  Because of the close relation between land use, environment, economic and transportation, it is necessary to co-ordinate land use and transportation planning. Professionals seek integrated approaches to ensure that urban, regional and economic development takes place in an environment that addresses [...]

  • Date : 1999
  • Pages : 64
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.10.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-100-1
• Transport Interchanges and Urban Development

  As a part of the PIARC 2000-2003 work program, the Committee on Urban Areas and Integrated Urban Transport (C10) investigated the relations between transport interchanges and urban development, in order to : identify best practices of integrated passenger interchanges in urban development and freight [...]

  • Date : 2003
  • Pages : 10
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.13.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-150-8
• Urban Mobility

  A dilemma faces public policy makers today in much of the world and particularly in the developing world. In all societies, individuals have similar time pressures on their day and similar needs to access opportunities. The statistics presented in this report demonstrate that as persons gain the means [...]

  • Date : 1995
  • Pages : 51
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.05.BEN
  • ISBN : RRspécial-I-1995
• Urban Road Design and Architecture

  This report develops further ideas (see 10.04.B page 49) on the organization and design of the urban road network, with the following main objectives: to develop the "environmental capacity" concept introduced by Buchanan report (1963), to explore the relationship between functional and visual [...]

  • Date : 1995
  • Pages : 34
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.08.BEN
  • ISBN : RR-II-1995
• Urban Road Network Management

  Many different organizations are interested in using the area above and below the streets. One of the most important things is to co-ordinate and harmonize the various areas of interest. The purpose of this report is to show who decides how the street zones in cities are used; to show different organizational [...]

  • Date : 1995
  • PIARC Ref. : 10.09.BEN