Sustainable Mobility: Mitigating the Impact of Road Transport Infrastructure on Wildlife

Roads and traffic cause many casualties among the wildlife population (illustration 1), in a range from hundreds of thousands to several …

N°398 (3rd quarter 2023)

The Final Frontier - Meeting the Challenges of Linear Infrastructure in Africa

The environmental and infrastructure sectors in Africa are at the early stages of adopting a meaningful collaborative agenda for developing …

N°398 (3rd quarter 2023)

Caroline Evans, Taking the Environment to Heart

Caroline Evans has been involved in PIARC for 12 years. She has 23 years’ experience in the road transport sector and has a Batchelor …

N°397 (2nd quarter 2023)

EPZS and Traffic Restrictions : An Overview Of The European Context

In order to comply with Directive EU 2016/2284 of the European Parliament and Council of 14 December 2016 on the reduction of national …

N°397 (2nd quarter 2023)

Premature Deaths per Year Caused by Air Pollution in France: What the Figures Say

In 2018, the French Government adopted the results of an official study conducted in 2016 by the French public health agency (Santé public …

N°397 (2nd quarter 2023)

The Complex Nature of Operating a Large Infrastructure

All infrastructures have their own unique characteristics that influence their operation. Calle 30 has a 40 km network of tunnels that are …

N°396 (1st quarter 2023)

Towards more Sustainable Road Tunnels in Australia and New Zealand: Recommendations for Practitioners

Sustainability is important for many reasons, but fundamentally it is not about what we should do for the environment, it is something we …

N°396 (1st quarter 2023)

Tunnel Design for Improving the Environmental Conditions in the Surrounding Area

Society has an ever-growing awareness of the environmental conditions that should be preserved during any actions and the need to establish …

N°396 (1st quarter 2023)

Decarbonisation: a Key Goal to Ensure Sustainable Roads

N°395 (4th quarter 2022)

Towards a More Resilient Spanish Road Network

Several studies state the increasing impacts related to weather in transport infrastructures, both related to extreme events and slow-onset …

N°393 (2nd quarter 2022)