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• CD-ROUTE

  Minimum Equipment Required CD-ROUTE can be used on PC (386 at least, Windows 3.1, 95 & NT) and Macintosh® (68020 at least), Power Mac®, Mac OS version 7. Minimum equipment required: 16 Mo RAM, a hard disk and a 14'' colour screen (256 colours or more). The program is very easy to install. [...]

  • Date : 2000
  • PIARC Ref. : CD-ROUTEEN
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Optimizing the Existing Interurban Road Network

  As part of the PIARC 2000-2003 work program, the Committee on Interurban Roads (C4) decided to discuss and investigate the links between the various measures available for optimising the existing interurban road network. The objective of the group is to establish the measures which work best to improve [...]

  • Date : 2003
  • Pages : 56
  • PIARC Ref. : 04.06.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-142-7
• 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
• 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 in Desert Areas

  Drafted by the PIARC Technical Committee on Roads in Developing Regions, this report provides information on the construction and maintenance of roads in desert areas.

  • Date : 1991
  • Pages : 88
  • PIARC Ref. : 03.03.BEN
• Road Safety Audits

  

  A Road Safety Audit is a formal systematic road safety assessment of the road or road scheme carried out by an independent, qualified auditor or team of auditors who report on the project's accident potential for all kinds of road users. Although the initial cost of the design will be a little higher, [...]

  • Date : 2001
  • Pages : 92
  • PIARC Ref. : 13.02.BEN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-135-4
• Safety Improvement on Interurban Roads

  

  Part one of the report is intended for political decision makers, to persuade them that implementing specific safety programmes is useful, getting them to understand that safety operations are not necessarily complicated and expensive. When road improvement schemes are programmed on the basis of multiple [...]

  • Date : 1991
  • Pages : 108
  • PIARC Ref. : 04.01.BEN
• Techniques for Motorway Widening

  The seemingly inexorable growth of traffic has led to the expansion of the motorway systems in North America and Europe. Increasingly the capacity of existing motorways is being enhanced by the construction of additional lanes. The planning of widening works should take account of the special [...]

  • Date : 2001
  • Pages : 21
  • PIARC Ref. : 12.06.BEN
  • ISBN : RR310-II-2001
• 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