PIARC Prize "Sustainable Development" - Adapting Road Network Design, Maintenance and Operations Documents to the Realities of Climate Change

Through freeze/thaw cycles, temperature gradients, flooding and storms, climatic conditions regularly affect the state of transportation …

N°383 (1st quarter 2020)

PIARC Prize "Young Professionals" - Which Road Resurfacing Strategies Best Promote Sustainability? Case Study on a French Motorway Section

Road transportation is key to the pursuit of sustainable development. In France, this sector accounts for: 8% of national employment, 13% …

Strategic Theme D - InfrastructureThe Untold Story: Infrastructure Preservation

Road Agencies allocate tremendous resources and manpower to maintain their road networks. While most managers concentrate efforts on …

N°382 (3rd quarter 2019)

Advances in the Implementation of Road Asset Management in Chile

Chile has a road network of 85,221 kilometres. It largely consists of interurban roads and some sections in urban areas of strategic …

N°381 (2nd quarter 2019)

Britain. ISO 55001 Certification - An Example from the UK

Kier Highways has achieved certification for its asset management practices and procedures against the requirements of ISO 55001 on their …

N°381 (2nd quarter 2019)

Common Framework for a European Life-Cycle Based Asset Management Approach for Transport Infrastructure Networks

A smoothly functioning road network is key to sustained success in modern economies. The quality and completeness of a transport network, …

N°381 (2nd quarter 2019)

Development of Advanced Asset Management System in Japanese Expressways

As of the end of 2018, the total length of the Japanese motorway network had reached approx. 9,500 km, with most road segments being …

N°381 (2nd quarter 2019)

Digitization 4.0 in Asset Management ; A challenge for the future

The development of new technologies is changing the world on a scale not seen before. Social scientists define this progress as the 4th …

N°381 (2nd quarter 2019)

Maintenance Programming Performance-based Contracts using HDM-4

N°381 (2nd quarter 2019)

Multi-Objective Approaches to Cross-Asset Resource Allocation in Transportation Asset Management

Infrastructure asset management is emerging as a major means for improving the management of transportation facilities, and minimizing the …

N°381 (2nd quarter 2019)