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• Road Safety Challenges and Solutions in Rural and Interurban Areas - A PIARC Briefing Note

  

  Road safety in rural and interurban areas is a significant global concern, disproportionately contributing to fatalities and serious injuries despite lower traffic volumes. Factors such as unsafe speeds, unforgiving road environments, impaired driving, limited seat belt usage, insufficient infrastructure [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 978
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R08EN
• Understanding the Gendered Perspective of Active Mobility in Rural and Interurban Areas - A PIARC Briefing Note

  

  Roads play a crucial role in promoting equity and accessibility in both rural and interurban areas. Within this context, there are two primary areas of emphasis: enhancing active modes of transportation and improving road safety for all users, as well as investigating technical solutions for both paved [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 23
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R09EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-793-9
• Urban Vehicle Access Regulations (UVARS) - A PIARC Case Studies Collection

  

  This report presents a global collection of case studies on Urban Vehicle Access Regulations (UVARs), compiled by the Technical Committee 2.1 “Roads for Accessibility and Mobility in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas” of the World Road Association (PIARC). It is one of the three deliverables from Working [...]

  • Date : 2025
  • Pages : 95
  • PIARC Ref. : 2025R07EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-791-5
• Multimodal Solutions for Optimizing Road Networks in Urban And Peri-Urban Areas

  

  Mobility in urban areas faces complex problems which need to be managed within spatial and budgetary constraints. It is therefore necessary to optimize the use of road networks through better integration with other forms of transport (rail, active modes, etc.). Multimodality giving rise to [...]

  • Date : 2024
  • Pages : 30
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R50EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-754-0
• New Mobility and Road Infrastructure

  

  PIARC has been concerned, for some time, about the challenges and opportunities presented by Connected and Autonomous Vehicles for Road Network Operators. These were explored by two Task Forces between 2018 and 2020, and the rapid and disruptive arrival of a wider range of mobility technologies, digital [...]

  • Date : 2024
  • Pages : 80
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023R49EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-753-3
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• State of the Art in Road Design Standards - Literature Review

  

  This literature review is the first of two planned publications of PIARC Task Force 4.1 “Road Design Standards” in the period 2020 – 2022. PIARC considered importance of comparison international road design standards to check their updated status and the degree of their readiness to face the forthcoming [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 121
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022R22EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-708-3
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Vulnerable road users: Diagnosis of design and operational safety problems and potential countermeasures

  

  Following the World Health Organisation, nearly half of those dying on the world's roads are vulnerable road users (VRU). This proportion is much greater in low- and middle-income countries, because of the greater variety and intensity of traffic mix and the lack of separation from other road users, [...]

  • Date : 2017
  • Pages : 26
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R34EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-442-6
• Framework for Citywide Road Freight Transport Management

  

  The report entitled "Framework for citywide road freight transport management" of WG1, TC2.3 "Freight Transport" describes the research and findings about the frameworks for public sector road freight transport management (RFTM). RFTM is a key contributor to the sustainable development of urban areas, [...]

  • Date : 2016
  • Pages : 62
  • PIARC Ref. : 2016R28EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-428-0
• Strategies for balancing urban transport to improve mobility and reduce road congestion

  

  This report reviews the factors having a main impact on the supply and demand for road capacity, before it considers the strategies which allow to address congestion and improve mobility of persons in urban areas. From different case studies, the report reviews nine strategies: promoting public [...]

  • Date : 2013
  • Pages : 125
  • PIARC Ref. : 2013R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-311-5
• The connected vehicle

  

  The advent of Intelligent Transport Systems has provided new opportunities for improving the safety and efficiency of the road network. The development of intelligent vehicles, connected by wireless networks to the roadside infrastructure, brings opportunities and issues which are being discussed in [...]

  • Date : 2012
  • Pages : 59
  • PIARC Ref. : 2012R02EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-246-6
• Road safety audit guidelines for safety checks of new road projects

  

  This guideline is a comprehensive catalogue of design safety problems and countermeasures that outlines the common types of design failures in a definitive guide for road engineers and professionals working in the road transport sector. With the UN Decade of Action soon to be launched by the World Health [...]

  • Date : 2011
  • Pages : 385
  • PIARC Ref. : 2011R01EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-199-0
• Congestion in urban areas - Examples of counter-measures

  

  Congestion is a complex phenomenon, influenced by socioeconomic, technical, and human factors. The report examines twenty case studies and focuses on countermeasures against recurrent congestion on urban roads implemented in various cities. The countermeasures have been characterised by the nature/degree [...]

  • Date : 2010
  • Pages : 145
  • PIARC Ref. : 2010R04EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-232-6
• Sustainable interurban roads for tomorrow

  

  Ce rapport traite de l'amélioration de la planification et de l'exploitation des réseaux routiers interurbains. Les interactions entre la planification des transports intégrés, la planification régionale et l'aménagement du territoire sont examinées par une approche en quatre étapes et la [...]

  • Date : 2009
  • Pages : 213
  • PIARC Ref. : 2009R09EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-229-6
• PIARC Catalogue of design safety problems and potential countermeasures

  

  This catalogue presents a set of commonly design errors and suggests a range of measures to overcome them; it also gives an indication of the comparative countermeasure costs to facilitate prioritisation of the work. The catalogue can be used both as a proactive safety tool to ensure the design faults [...]

  • Date : 2009
  • Pages : 169
  • PIARC Ref. : 2009R07EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-227-X
• Urban road tunnels - Recommendations to managers and operating bodies for design, management, operation and maintenance

  

  Urban road tunnels are unique in terms of traffic characteristics (high volume, congestion during commuter periods, wide variety of vehicles, high percentage of buses, etc.), infrastructural design, difficulty of closing and urban environment. Recommendations are presented to managers and operating [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 110
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R15EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-216-4