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• Roadway winter maintenance support systems and information exchange

  

  This report presents a state of practice for the use of road weather information systems in relation to winter maintenance. An overview is provided on: the types of sensors that are used by road weather stations, collection and management of data, the file formats that are used for data exchange, information [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 175
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R20EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060221-0
• Human factors and road tunnel safety regarding users

  

  This report aims to improve the understanding of user behaviour in road tunnels in both normal and critical situations and to provide recommendations for tunnel design and operation. After an introduction of the human decision process, the report presents observations of the behaviour of tunnel users [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 193
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R17EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-218-0
• 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
• Human factors guidelines for safer road infrastructure

  

  It is well known, that human factors have an enormous influence on the safe handling of technical systems. Human factors can be described as people's contributions to damaging events. It is the generic term for those psychological and physiological patterns, which are verified to contribute to operational [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 110
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R18EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-215-6
• The use of monetised values for socio-environmental impacts of road projects

  

  This report presents the current practice of monetising socio/environmental impacts in road project appraisal methodologies. It presents: a synthesis of the responses from 13 countries to an international survey; an overview of the HEATCO study on road project appraisal techniques across 25 countries [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 107
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R19EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-219-9
• Transportation infrastructure financing for sustainable development

  

  Today, countries are facing difficulties in allocating their financial resources amongst critically needed maintenance, and the desire to secure new infrastructure to increase network capacity and to preserve existing roadways. This report explores the various financial procurement strategies implemented [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 211
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R16EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-217-2
• Asset management practice

  

  Road Asset Management is a more developed approach to the task of steadily improving the satisfaction of road stakeholders. It enables road administrations to better optimise outcomes. It also incorporates the concept of business excellence in relation to both results and enablers. The objective of [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 163
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R11EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-211-3
• Anticipating the impact of climate change on road earthworks

  

  Climate change and its consequences are one of the main preoccupations of the beginning of the 21 st century. The first part of the report presents, as an example, regional scenarios of the climate evolution for Quebec and Switzerland. The second part focuses on water: lack or excess of water and its [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 69
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R12EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-212-1
• Evaluating the performance of automated pavement cracking measurement equipment

  

  Crack type, severity and extent are among the most important data used to identify maintenance and repair actions. The use of automated crack measurement systems is increasing although performance tests of these devices are only conducted infrequently, and these are very often incomplete and non-uniform. [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 59
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R14EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-214-8
• Mitigation of negative impacts of increased movement of freight

  

  Roads remain the predominant mode of transport for freight in the world. The negative impacts are often stigmatized and the concern for sustainable development requires in particular, promotion of mitigation measures. This report provides an overview of initiatives, research projects and recent technical [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 175
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R13EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-213-X
• Human powered transport

  

  This report, prepared by PIARC Technical Committee 2.3 « Urban Areas and Integrated Urban Transport » deals with the topic of human powered transport, which is often ignored or lacks appropriate recognition as a viable mode of transport. However, it is a very important mode of transport from the [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 61
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R10EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-210-5
• Sustainable transport in megacities

  

  This report, prepared by PIARC Technical Committee 2.3 « Urban Areas and Integrated Urban Transport », presents a study on sustainable transport in megacities, i.e. cities of more than 10 million inhabitants, with a focus on four cities, 2 in developed countries (Paris, Tokyo) and two in developing [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 155
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R09EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-209-1
• Increasing customer orientation in the winter maintenance of roads

  

  This report, prepared by Committee 3.4 Winter Maintenance, is based on the responses of 25 countries to a survey of organizations responsible for winter maintenance issues. The information gathered focuses on many topics: how road maintenance is provided in winter, levels of service and categories [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 37
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R08EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-207-5
• Road tunnels: an assessment of fixed fire fighting systems

  

  The report reviews: the previous studies on this topic carried out by PIARC and the recent developments since the release of the PIARC report on this subject in 1999; the lessons drawn from the past fires and holistic approach to fixed fire fighting systems (FFFS); consideration of FFFS in the [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 79
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R07EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-208-3
• CD-ROM of the PIARC Technical Committee on Management of Network Operations

  Road network operations combine a complex set of traffic management and user support actions to optimize traffic conditions in all circumstances. The knowledge in this area has been organized in the form of an electronic encyclopaedia that can be accessed on the PIARC website at:  https://rno-its.piarc.org/ [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R10EN
• Integration of performance indicators

  

  Road infrastructure management tends to be determined by objectives aiming at a sustainable socio-economic performance of the transport system. Such an approach requires performance indicators for the various stakeholders, which should be established by aggregating technical and non-technical indicators. [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 119
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R06EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-206-7
• Review of the growth and development of recycling in pavement construction

  

  This report presents an overview of the use of recycling techniques in pavement construction in many countries. It highlights the barriers to recycling and describes systems and approaches that assist in overcoming these barriers. The incentives that are discussed are related to client awareness, [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 203
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R05EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-205-9
• Road tunnels: a guide to optimising the air quality impact upon the environment

  

  Air quality has become a topic of concern in the planning, design and operation process of road tunnels. This is a state-of-the-art report on the knowledge and regulations in the field of road traffic impact on air quality. It also provides a detailed description of air quality optimization at tunnel [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 179
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R04EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-204-0
• Management of the operator - Emergency teams interface in road tunnels

  

  The purpose of this report is to assist the owners, operators of tunnels and emergency services to coordinate their operations in order to improve the level of safety for users, staff members and emergency teams during serious tunnel fires and tunnel incidents. The first part presents the most relevant [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 75
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R03EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-201-6
• Risk analysis for road tunnels

  

  Risk analysis is an important tool which can be used to help improve and optimise the safety of road tunnels. Risk analysis is now explicitly required by the European Directive 2004/54/EC, on minimum safety requirements for road tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network. The report summarises the [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 245
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R02EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-202-4
• Indicators representative of the condition of geotechnical structures for road asset management

  

  The management of geotechnical assets of road infrastructure is a subject that is rarely investigated. The variability and the difficulty to predict long-term performances pose a challenge for planning maintenance. The report provides an overview of the state of practice. After a description of the [...]

  • Date : 2008
  • Pages : 173
  • PIARC Ref. : 2008R01EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-201-6
• Promoting optimal use of local materials

  

  This document aims to: • identify the progress made over the last decade with respect to soil and/or rock treatments in the area of road earthworks, and more specifically since the publication of PIARC's 1997 report: "Equipment and Methods Specific to Soil Treatment Work"; • look at developments [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 83
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R09EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-196-6
• 8th Edition - Technical Dictionary of Road Terms

  

  This eighth edition of the PIARC Technical Dictionary of Road Terms is an extract, obtained in May 2007, from the multilingual terminology database made available to the worldwide highways community in the Road Dictionary section on the PIARC website. This database is constantly updated by the PIARC [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 1184
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R06EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060197-4
• 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
• How to apply the concepts of sustainable development to transport?

  

  This report has been produced by Technical Committee C2.1. Sustainable Development and Road Transport and provides an analysis of "How to apply the concepts of Sustainable Development to Transport?" from the approaches implemented in a few cases - either policies, programmes or projects. These cases [...]

  • Date : 2007
  • Pages : 127
  • PIARC Ref. : 2007R08EN
  • ISBN : 2-84060-198-2