Remembrance of XIVth World Road Congress Prague 1971
It is the year 1971. On September 12, 1971, at 1:00 PM, the gates of the XIVth World Road Congress with the accompanying exhibition "Via …
N°398 (3rd quarter 2023)
Brief History of Women in the Transport Sector
The labor market has traditionally been gender segregated. Women were excluded from many university educations until the first half of the …
N°397 (2nd quarter 2023)
A record of the life of the Association: PIARC membership letters
The World Road Association now has 125 member governments, following the three recent accessions of Kazakhstan (2021), Qatar and San Marino …
N°395 (4th quarter 2022)
A Short History of Road Safety in France
Today, each French citizen travels 35 times farther on the roads, by means other than walking, than they did in 1900. Back then, there were …
N°394 (3rd quarter 2022)
A brief history of the Transportation Research Board: it all started with roads
At its Annual Meeting in January 2020, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) began the commemoration of its 100th year. Plans for an …
N°392 (1st quarter 2022)
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 …
N°391 (4th quarter 2021)
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, …
N°390 (3rd quarter 2021)
Paving our Ways: A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements
Travel has always played an important role in the functioning of the human species. After our ancestors descended from the trees, the …
N°389 (2nd quarter 2021)
Freight Transport by Road: Reasoned Historic Overview and Chronicle
Humans have always needed to transport goods of all kinds, including food, construction materials, and raw materials for making tools and …
N°388 (1st quarter 2021)
Mexica’s Logistics 500 years ago
By the time this is published, in 2021, 500 years will have passed since the conquest of Tenochtitlán, and the fusion of cultures of what …
N°388 (1st quarter 2021)
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