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• Circular Economy in Asphalt Pavements in Mexico

  

  At the end of 2019, Mexico’s Senate of the Republic approved the proposal for a circular economy law. The main objective of this is to ensure that Mexico has a general regulatory framework that enables it to use its natural, economic and human resources in an effective and sustainable manner, creating [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR400-015
• Automated Driving Vehicle and Intelligent Highway in China

  

  With the rapid development of China’s economy, the scale of expressways is expanding, and the level of intelligence and information is improving. Today, with the rapid development of technology and integration of Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence and traditional industries, the [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR391-044
• Automated Vehicles - Challenges and Opportunities for Road Operators and Road Authorities

  

  This article is a presentation of the report recently published by PIARC Task Force B.2 Automated Vehicles and available on PIARC Website. In the last few years, vehicles with different levels of automation have been being tested all over the world. The automated vehicles will increasingly need to [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR391-050
• Digital Transport Infrastructure Interactions with Automated Vehicles

  

  During the automated part of their journey vehicles rely on on-board systems (cameras, sensors, etc.) and digital feeds from the road infrastructure. This fact calls for a proper maintenance of physical road infrastructure e.g. like markings, signs and signals to ensure a high level of readability by [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR391-040
• Future Forward: Smart Highways as a Functional Class

  

  Smart highways use technology enabled resources and processes that facilitate active management and control across instrumented and connected roads. The present-day dynamic includes road operators, third-party service providers, and in-vehicle computer platforms working independently and collaboratively [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR391-028
• Russian Electric Vehicles, from the 19th Century to Today

  

  The concept of the electric car was first born in the United States in 1832, but it wasn’t until the late 19th century that some convincing trials actually emerged. At the same period, Russia had also developed some electric-powered vehicles (initially communal or commercial vehicles) with varying [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR391-054
• Security Vulnerabilities and Threats Related to CAV Deployment

  

  The development of the new embedded and on roadside technologies, regardless of traffic type and driving area, have the potential to improve the traffic safety, to minimize the energy consumption, to reduce the pollution emissions, and to optimize the traffic performances. Moreover, the new mobility [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR391-037
• Smart Roads Classification

  

  This article is based on the PIARC Special Project “Smart Roads Classification” which was funded by PIARC with financial support from Spain, Belgium, Canada-Québec and the USA. The project was carried out by a team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain) with the support of [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR391-023
• The Road of the Future: Green, Digital, Resilient

  

  EU Transport Commissioner, Adina Vălean, described the transport system as a backbone that connects European citizens and businesses. Transport in Europe employs more than 10 million people and is worth about 5% of European GDP. At the same time, transport is not without its social costs: today, pollutant [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR391-031
• Smart Roads Classification

  

  Traditionally, road network classification systems have focused on two fundamentally opposite dimensions: mobility and accessibility. These classification systems have been adapted to the variable circumstances of countries or regions. However, with Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) coming into [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 304
  • PIARC Ref. : 2021SP01
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-668-0
• Disaster Management: The Effects And Management Of Covid-19 Whilst Looking To The Future - Briefing Note

  

  No matter what the disaster is, no matter what the pandemic is, we as road administrators must minimize the disaster impacts to our transportation infrastructure. To share the experiences of disaster management amid COVID-19, PIARC TC 1.5 “Disaster Management” of PIARC and TRB AMR00(2) “Transportation [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 12
  • PIARC Ref. : 2021BN02EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-662-8
• Covid-19 Phase 1+, Urban Mobility Beyond Public Mass Transport

  

  This article is a follow-up two presentations within the PIARC seminars organised in the very first months of the pandemic: the situation was “on the run” and everything was to be understood and faced. Our contributions started from the public transport conditions, but soon it was clear that roles [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-044
• Disaster Management of Road Sector During Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Indonesia for Better Future

  

  Roads and land transport provide a significant contribution to Indonesia’s economic development and growth and provides social benefits. Roads provide access to employment, economic business facilities, health and education services and social activities. In addition, road networks are important in [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-033
• Disrupting the Disruptors: The Impact of Covid-19 on Emerging Transport Technologies and Service Models

  

  The complex impacts of COVID-19 on the transport sector have spurred not only short-term innovation but trends that may accelerate adoption of emerging technologies for the benefit of road and transport agencies, road users, and wider society.

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-025
• Economic Effects of Covid-19 on the Road Sector: a Puzzling Picture

  

  We all are aware of the unprecedented effects caused by COVID-19 on the economic systems, since we directly experienced most of them. A pandemic, as is typical for this type of event, affects everybody, although at different levels, but the road industry has been put in a special position in this situation. [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-038
• Impact of Covid-19 Crisis on Mobility and Highlights on the Place of Transport and Road Infrastructure in the European Recovery Strategy

  

  Considering the Covid-19 crisis impacts on transport and mobility sectors, this working group firstly analysed mobility changes before and during the pandemic. Then, the National Recovery and Resilience Plans were analysed to assess the importance and the main policy proposals for the transport sector, [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-054
• Impact of Covid-19 on Road Authorities in Low and Middle Income Countries: Case of Uganda National Roads Authority

  

  The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was established in 2006 following the Uganda Government’s road sector reforms aimed at the commercialisation of road management. UNRA became operational in 2008. It is charged with the responsibility of developing, maintaining, and operating the national [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-041
• Impact of the Pandemic on Disaster Management

  

  In March 2020, the first COVID-19 cases started to appear in Chile. This unknown disease from afar had reached the country, which was already in a state of great social and political instability. On 18 March, a State of Catastrophe1 was decreed throughout the national territory for 90 days. This status [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-029
• Old Roads of Lithuania From 5th to 17th century

  

  On Sept. 1st, 2021, the Lithuanian Road Administration celebrated its 1st anniversary as State enterprise and a century of achievements, often in the adverse circumstances met by the country throughout the 20th century. Nevertheless, the roads of this Baltic State have a longer, and sometimes original, [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-057
• Road Works, an Opportunity to Create the Future While Improving the Present

  

  Many events have been unfolding around the world in short period of time, with diverse and interrelated consequences in practically all areas of social and economic life of countries. COVID-19 impacts on road and transport sector are extensively described in numerous PIARC webinars since March 2020 [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-049
• Covid-19 and PIARC: a Pool of Shared Experience

  

  At PIARC, we are firm believers in the vital importance of sharing knowledge worldwide. We are also convinced that the roads and the road transport sector, and the organisations and professionals who manage them, provide an essential service. Indeed, they have demonstrated their amazing resilience and [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 1
  • PIARC Ref. : RR390-023
• Earthworks Manual - Specific technical developments – 2E – Environmental aspects

  

  Any development project has an impact on the three pillars of sustainable development: environment, economy, and society. Earthworks is a key stage in dealing with and optimising this impact in road infrastructures. At the design and preliminary project level , it is necessary to choose the route [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • PIARC Ref. : 2021R02E
• Automated Vehicles - Challenges and Opportunities for Road Operators and Road Authorities - Technical Report

  

  Vehicle Automation – at SAE levels 3, 4 and 5 – is still in a testing phase in most countries. Many tests at level 3 have been performed successfully on open roads without any changes to the road infrastructure and without any observed impacts on congestion. There are various situations which necessitate [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 83
  • PIARC Ref. : 2021R03EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-653-6
• Increasing Resilience of Earth Structures to Natural Hazards - Litterature Review

  

  This report provides preliminary background on the topic of “Increasing Resilience of Earth Structures to Natural Hazards” assigned to WG1 of PIARC TC 4.3 as part of the 2020-2023 Work Program. This topic will be further developed as part of the 2020-2023 Work Cycle and is expected to be completed [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 41
  • PIARC Ref. : 2021LR04EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-652-9
• Improving resilience of road networks - Framework

  

  Sustainable development of societies is increasingly relying on unrestricted performance of terrestrial transportation networks. However, the recent sudden failures of the Polcevera viaduct in Genoa, Italy, a suspension bridge in France and the Ponte di Caprigliola bridge in Liguria, Italy, are painful [...]

  • Date : 2021
  • Pages : 7
  • PIARC Ref. : RR389-023