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• Mexica’s Logistics 500 years ago

  

  By the time this is published, in 2021, 500 years will have passed since the conquest of Tenochtitlán, and the fusion of cultures of what is now Mexico. Let us review the legacy that this entire process has left, in the area of the topic at hand: logistics and freight transport. 500 Years Ago the Mexica [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR388-051
• Improving Road Tunnel Resilience, Considering Safety and Availability - Literature Review

  

  This report contains a review of literature on road tunnel resilience, including more general literature on resilience principles or aspects that could be applied to tunnels. Many definitions for “resilience” were found, but the Working Group decided on the following definition in the context of [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 207
  • PIARC Ref. : 2021LR01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-631-4
• Assessing Landscape Effects in Strategic Planning for Transport Infrastructure

  

  To assess the multiplicity of effects on landscape from transport infrastructure measures is especially challenging since planned transport structures might stretch over large areas of a region and influence future land uses. When new areas become accessible by the construction of new roads, railroads [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-028
• Norwegian Scenic Routes

  

  Norwegian Scenic Routes provide experiences of spectacular views and panoramas of beautiful landscapes and unique nature, as do scenic routes elsewhere in the world. But the theme of the Norwegian Scenic Routes - modern architecture in magnificent scenery - is really one of a kind. And what architecture [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-021
• Private Practitioners and Public Practice - Transportation Landscape Architecture in Practice

  

  Transportation Landscape Architecture, defined as the landscape architectural aspects of any highway, local roadway, transit, or trail projects, as practiced in the United States, typically involves a team of landscape architects working collaboratively to develop solutions to the environmental, aesthetic, [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-031
• Private Practitioners and Public Practice - Transportation Landscape Architecture in Practice

  

  The traffic facilities that the Swedish Transport Administration plans, builds and maintains are a central and important part of most Swede’s everyday-environments. Through comprehensive studies in an R&D project, the Swedish Transport Administration has developed a tool for measuring how customers [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-035
• Roads and Landscape – A Growing and Captivating Concern

  

  Humans have been moving our bodies forward in thousands of years. All this time, the transport infrastructure has been an interplay between man and landscape. Paths were created according to the conditions and built-in restrictions of the landscape. The intersection of such paths stimulated trade [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 1
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-013
• State-of-the-art practiced by the earliest civil engineers

  

  Over a thousand years after falling into disuse, Roman roads and streets have still continued to inspire and influence architectural theories on roadways. Nonetheless, beginning in the 17th century, and picking up momentum well into the 18th century, France would set the stage for a veritable renaissance [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-045
• The E6 Motorway Through the Landscape of Bohuslän - A story of dedication to create an attractive motorway in a breath-taking landscape

  

  How do some motorways manage to harmonize with their environments whilst others give the impression of being open wounds in the landscape? How is it that some motorways add value to the trip whilst others merely lead from one place to another making it obvious to the road user that they were designed [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-024
• The Renaissance of Urban Spaces

  

  We are in the midst of an environmental and climate crisis. A sustainable and vibrant urban environment is more relevant than ever with today’s population growth and urbanization For the first time in Earth’s history, more people live in cities than in the countryside. During this strong urban growth, [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-040
• Transportation Landscape Architects – Research for Landscape and Environmental Design in the Public Realm

  

  Landscape Architects have long history in the United States of participating in the planning and design of public spaces. From New York’s Central Park to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C. the landscape architect’s perspective and sensibility has proven key to successful public [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR387-014
• COVID-19: initial impacts and responses to the pandemic from road and transport agencies - Technical Report

  

  The road transport sector, and the organisations and professionals who manage it, is an essential service and PIARC recognized the potential for COVID-19 to cause severe disruption to the road transport sector early on. In mid-March 2020, PIARC moved to establish a formal PIARC COVID-19 Response Team [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 150
  • PIARC Ref. : 2020BN03EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-728-4
• Road Related Data and How to Use it

  

  The management of road infrastructure has been experiencing major changes over the past decade, mostly due to the increased demand from road users, the increased deterioration of road infrastructure and from the evolution of user expectations. In addition, new challenges such as climate change and emerging [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 162
  • PIARC Ref. : 2020SP02
  • ISBN : 978-2-84069-627-7
• Preserve Earthworks and Rural Roads from the Impact of Climate Changes - Technical Report

  

  This report puts together good practices on the various regional approaches to the impacts of climate change on roads and little hydraulic works. The subject has already been addressed during previous PIARC cycles but more on the general geotechnical aspect. It includes the definition of the climatic [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 134
  • PIARC Ref. : 2020R02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-626-0
• Principles for Cooperation and Collaboration between National and Local Road Agencies - Technical Report

  

  This report analyses general areas of cooperation amongst road authorities at the various levels and the various institutional tools utilised to ensure integration. The need for cooperation between national, federal, provincial, state, local and municipal road agencies is becoming more pronounced. Noting [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 235
  • PIARC Ref. : 2020R01EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-625-3
• ¿Cómo elegir la mejor solución de reparación y/o reconstrucción de un puente de carretera?

  

  Bridge owners who have to manage their bridge stock are concerned about the selection of the most suitable rehabilitation strategy. The way to compare different solutions is important and is the main goal of this paper. According to responses to a questionnaire from 17 countries, a decision process [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-037
• Bridge Design toward Improved Inspection and Maintenance

  

  Bridges need to be designed so that they can be efficiently and effectively inspected and maintained during its lifetime. This requires that the aspects of inspections and maintenance are given adequate consideration in the design phase and not treated as an afterthought. All elements of a bridge must [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-049
• Decision-Making for Highway Bridge Safety

  

  Highway bridge owners in most countries routinely assess bridge damage and deterioration to ensure structural performance for the safety of the traveling public and the reliable movement of goods and services. While in service, bridges experience a variety of incidents involving damage or deterioration. [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-033
• Detection of Delaminated and Cracked Concrete with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  

  The unmanned aerial vehicles or drones provide eyes that reach the sites and parts of structures that are difficult to access. They are very valuable when high bridges with large spans, which would typically require special vehicles, hoists or personnel with climbing skills, are inspected. If a drone [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-029
• Improvement of Access Equipment on Girders of Honshu-Shikoku Bridges

  

  The Honshu-Shikoku Bridges (HSB) are comprised of 17 long-span bridges which span over the straits, and the bridge girders are at high altitude above the sea. Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Co., Ltd. is conducting maintenance management of the long-span bridges based on the concept of preventive maintenance, [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-024
• Italferr and Anas: Our Commitment to the New Bridge in Genoa

  

  Projects of extraordinary infrastructural complexity and the confrontation with great engineering and management challenges have allowed Italferr, the engineering company of the Italian State Railways Group, to consolidate its know-how over time, to contribute to the spread of High Speed in Italy and [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 2
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-042
• Process for Evaluating Options for Bridges

  

  The road infrastructure is a key asset with regard to the country’s socio-economic development. As such, it critically important to ensure the trafficability of the networks that make up the road system, with bridges playing an essential role in the system’s connectivity.

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-054
• Safety and Extension of Life Time of Road Bridges

  

  Road bridges are fundamental infrastructure in all national, regional or local road networks. In many developed countries, significant budgets were invested on road infrastructure including road bridges during the economic growth. Due to this situation, many developed countries are facing a problem [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 1
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-023
• Safety Assessment of Fire Damaged Cable-Stayed Bridge

  

  During winter thunderstorm on the evening of December 2015, one of the longest upper cables of a cable-stayed bridge caught a fire. The 990-m long cable-stayed bridge consists of three cable-stayed spans of 200 m + 470 m + 200 m and two 60-m long end spans of simply-supported composite girders. The [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-044
• When Hokusai Painted Bridges

  

  Bridges are a part of our history: human beings have built bridges since ancient times to overcome the natural obstacles posed by rivers and gorges, to facilitate travel and communication. Over the centuries, political and technological constraints have resulted in the development of types and structures [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR386-057