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• Artificial Intelligence in the Road Sector

  

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative force in the road sector, offering substantial opportunities to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Commissioned under PIARC's Special Projects programme, this study carried out by Roughan & O'Donovan Ltd., provides a comprehensive [...]

  • Date : 2024
  • Pages : 222
  • PIARC Ref. : 2024SP02
• Artificial Intelligence in the Road Sector

  

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative force in the road sector, offering substantial opportunities to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Commissioned under PIARC's Special Projects programme, this study carried out by Roughan & O'Donovan Ltd., provides a comprehensive [...]

  • Date : 2024
  • Pages : 42
  • PIARC Ref. : 2024SP03
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-775-5
• Social Equity and Social Accessibility

  

  PIARC - World Road Association has established a Special Projects mechanism to respond to emerging issues and priorities identified by its members. In response to this call, this project addressed the issue of ‘Social equity’ and ‘Social accessibility’ for transport projects. The project aimed [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 303
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023SP04
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-755-7
• Managing Innovation in Transport Agencies - PIARC Special Project

  

  Objectives PIARC commissioned TRL to undertake a research project to identify the ways in which road and transport agencies encourage and sustain innovation, and to identify any lessons that may be learned from other sectors. Specific objectives included identification of internal and external innovation [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 120
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023SP03
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-820-2
• PIARC Road Safety Knowledge Exchange - Special Project

  

  PIARC has an active role in the efforts to improve road safety worldwide through evidence-based studies, technical reports and other type knowledge products. PIARC Technical Committee 3.1 “Road Safety” recognises that 90% of traffic deaths occur in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, and uses this [...]

  • Date : 2023
  • Pages : 17
  • PIARC Ref. : 2023SP01
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-787-8
• Carbon Neutrality of The Road Sector

  

  Road transport is vital for society to function and, for the foreseeable future, is expected to remain the dominant mode of transport for people and goods. However, the construction, operation, maintenance and use of the highway infrastructure are responsible for large quantities of carbon emissions. [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 151
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022SP03
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-727-4
• Bridge And Tunnel Strikes By Oversized Vehicles

  

  This report details the findings of a study carried out by Roughan & O’Donovan Ltd. (ROD) under the supervision of PIARC, in response to an open call for proposals published by PIARC to conduct the “Bridges and tunnels strikes by oversize vehicles” Special Project. The objective of the study was [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 179
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022SP02
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-675-8
• Overweight Vehicles: Impact On Road Infrastructure And Safety

  

  This report compiled the available information on overweight road freight vehicles around the world, the impacts they have on road infrastructure, road safety and the economic position of road infrastructure managers, and collected global best practices to prevent and mitigate overloading. Global experience [...]

  • Date : 2022
  • Pages : 139
  • PIARC Ref. : 2022SP01
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-674-1
• 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
• 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
• The Contribution of Road Transport to Sustainability and Economic Development

  

  Road transport and road infrastructures are keys to the evolution and prosperity of modern society. Connecting people and places, goods and services in safe, efficient and sustainable way is essential for creating and maintaining sustainable and inclusive growth across society and the economy. This [...]

  • Date : 2020
  • Pages : 55
  • PIARC Ref. : 2020SP01
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-624-6
• Positive Energy Roads

  

  Transport infrastructure, and particularly road infrastructure, is critical to the economic growth of countries and as such attracts significant investment. The social and economic benefits of providing road infrastructure are well documented, but it is increasingly being recognised that the processes [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 128
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019SP01
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-546-1
• Electric road systems: a solution for the future?

  

  It is looking increasing likely that electric vehicles will play a major role in the future of road transport. While commercial electric vehicles exist their uptake has been limited due to high purchase costs, limited battery range, and a lack of charging convenience. Furthermore, while developments [...]

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 100
  • PIARC Ref. : 2018SP04
• Investigating Unpredicted Infrastructure Failure

  

  This report is an outcome of PIARC mechanism for Special Projects, which is PIARC instrument to respond quickly to emerging issues for PIARC member countries. This report provides a review of 15 Unpredicted Infrastructure Failure (UIF) case studies that have been collated from around the world. For [...]

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 51
  • PIARC Ref. : 2018SP01
• PIARC Databook of Roads and Road Transport (2014-2018)

  

  Currently road administrations of many countries face austerities and have to tackle some difficult issues: investing on extension of road network, maintenance and rehabilitation of existing aged roads, prompt recovery of road operation from the damage caused by large-scale disasters, and creation of [...]

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 62
  • PIARC Ref. : 2018SP02
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-491-4
• The Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Road Infrastructure

  

  From Canada to Tanzania, transportation agencies are using unmanned aerial systems (UASs), also known as drones, to collect data, design and construct road infrastructure, inspect bridges, monitor roads for avalanche and mudslide dangers, identify flood damage risks in urban areas, reconstruct crash [...]

  • Date : 2018
  • Pages : 115
  • PIARC Ref. : 2018SP03
• International climate change adaptation framework for road infrastructure

  

  Actions undertaken to mitigate the negative effects of climate change on road networks have varied from one country to another. They include legal, regulatory and institutional measures; promoting other transport modes; introducing new, green technologies; undertaking permanent supervision of embankments [...]

  • Date : 2015
  • Pages : 88
  • PIARC Ref. : 2015R03
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-362-7