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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Innovative Pavement Maintenance and Repair Strategies - Collection of Case Studies

    This report contains the collection of case studies related to innovative pavement maintenance and repair strategies of road pavements. This report addresses different pavement types i.e. flexible and (semi-)rigid pavements - as well as different road types. It considers both functional and structural [...]

    • Date : 2022
    • Pages : 87
    • PIARC Ref. : 2022R28EN
    • ISBN : 978-2-84060-721-2
  • Customer Experience -Case Study Analysis

    Research continues to show that when public agencies offer a better customer experience, they deliver measurable impacts across multiple priorities. To that end this report focusses its research on what approaches are currently happening across the world in respect of delivering an improved experience [...]

    • Date : 2022
    • Pages : 28
    • PIARC Ref. : 2022R26EN
    • ISBN : 978-2-84060-714-4
  • Measures for Improving Resilience of Pavements - Collection of Case Studies

    This report contains a collection of case studies related to measures to improve the resilience of pavements. Most of the measures address the impacts of climate change, such as increased precipitation and extreme temperatures. However, the case studies also explore how to make pavement more resilient [...]

    • Date : 2022
    • Pages : 111
    • PIARC Ref. : 2022R25EN
    • ISBN : 978-2-84060-713-7
  • Use Of Recycled Materials In Pavements - Briefing Note

    Back in 2003, PIARC published a report from Technical Committee C7/8 on “Pavement Recycling”. This report contains guidelines for in-place recycling with cement, emulsion or foamed bitumen and hot mix recycling in a plant. The current briefing note is the final part of a set of three reports on [...]

    • Date : 2022
    • Pages : 17
    • PIARC Ref. : 2022R10EN
    • ISBN : 978-2-84060-685-7
  • Use of Recycled Materials in Pavements - Case studies

    This report contains the collection of case studies related to in-place recycling with cement, emulsion or foamed bitumen, hot mix and cement concrete recycling in a plant. The current collection of case studies is part of a set of three publications on the “Use of Recycled Materials in Pavements” [...]

    • Date : 2022
    • Pages : 142
    • PIARC Ref. : 2022R03EN
    • ISBN : 978-2-84060-678-9
  • Reducing the Life Cycle Carbon Footprint of Pavements - High Impact Summary

    In 2019 PIARC published the report “Reducing the life cycle Carbon Footprint of pavements” (2019R33), which was a result from the work conducted by the Technical Committee D.2 – Pavements, during the 2012-2015 cycle. This report assessed and synthesized recent innovations leading to the reduction [...]

    • Date : 2022
    • Pages : 12
    • PIARC Ref. : 2022R02EN
    • ISBN : 978-2-84060-661-1
  • Use of Recycled Materials in Pavements - Literature review

    Back in 2003, PIARC published a report from Technical Committee C7/8 on “Pavement Recycling”. This report contains guidelines for in-place recycling with cement, emulsion or foamed bitumen and hot mix recycling in a plant. The current literature review is part of a set of three publications on [...]

    • Date : 2021
    • Pages : 105
    • PIARC Ref. : 2021LR02EN
    • ISBN : 978-2-84060-646-8
  • Methodological Document for the Establishment of a National Catalogue and Pavement Design Guide - Technical Report

    Following the critical review carried out by a joint PIARC/AGEPAR working group, of the 1984 edition of the Practical Guide to Pavement Design for Tropical Countries, produced by CEBTP, PIARC and AGEPAR approved the extension of this work by producing a methodological document for road administrations [...]

    • Date : 2019
    • PIARC Ref. : 2019R40EN
  • General Concept and Requirements for Asset Management Training Courses - Technical Report

    During PIARC work cycle of 2011-2015, the comprehensive Asset Management Manual was developed and presented as a draft version at the 25th World Road Congress 2015 in Seoul, Korea. The first full on-line version of the manual was made available in 2017. Asset Management Manual is available on the PIARC [...]

    • Date : 2019
    • Pages : 64
    • PIARC Ref. : 2019R38EN
    • ISBN : 978-2-84060-583-6
  • 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