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Proceedings of the XXVIIth World Road Congress - Prague 2023

2-6 october 2023, Prague (Czech Republic)

The XXVIIth World Road Congress was held in Prague, Czech Republic, October 2-6, 2023, under the theme "Together On the Road Again".

This Congress has been organized in close cooperation between PIARC (World Road Association), responsible for the content of the programme, and the Czech Local Organizing Committee (chaired by the President of the Czech Road Society and co-chaired by the First Delegate of the Czech Republic to PIARC, who is a representative of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic), responsible for the material organization of this Congress on behalf of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

The Congress attracted 38 Ministerial delegates, 229 exhibitors, 28 national pavilions, over 4,000 delegates and 2,000 students from 120 countries. The program included 88 sessions, 16 workshops, 15 technical visits and various social events.

  1. Proceedings of the Congress
  2. Highlights of the Congress
  3. General Report of the Congress
  4. Official Bulletins of the Congress

Proceedings of the Congress

Prague 2023 Congress proceedings are available online.

There you will find:

  • The Congress programme, including the detailed programme of each session,
  • National reports produced by PIARC Member Countries for the Strategic Direction Sessions,
  • Individual papers selected by the Technical Committees and Task Forces from among the proposals received following the Call for Papers,
  • PIARC's activity report for each of the years since the last World Road Congress in Abu Dhabi in 2019.

Highlights of the Congress

General Report of the Congress

The General Report of the Congress was prepared by the PIARC Czech National Committee.

This General Report was prepared by the PIARC Czech National Committee tasked with capturing, reviewing, summarizing and documenting the fundamental core of content covered across the full breadth and depth of the Congress’s technical programme as documented in the summaries prepared by the Congress Session Chairs.

This report sets out a structured summary of each technical focus area in a simple, thorough and consistent format. It includes not only the prefacing background to the issues, but a summary of the current focus issues and development areas, along with key outcomes, resolutions, findings and results; and importantly, the associated impacts on both key decision makers and PIARC (and other international organisations).

The objective of this report is to produce a central document that acts as a historical archive for future reference requirements, as well as a guiding blue print to map the course for the next four years of road and transport technical development and advancement.

Official Bulletins of the Congress

For the record, the four Congress Bulletins are downloadable below: