Direction and Distance Signs

In Section B, Question T, the First International Road Congress dealt with this question on the basis of the reports sent in and of the …

N°404 (1st quarter 2025)

Improvement and Standardisation of Road Signs and Distance Posts - Experiment on the Paris to Trouville Road (France)

N°403 (4th quarter 2024)

Prague 2023 - General Report

N°401 (2nd quarter 2024)

Routes/Roads celebrates its 400th anniversary

The issue of Routes/Roads that you are holding in your hand or, in the case of a growing number of readers, consulting electronically, is …

N°400 (1st quarter 2024)

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)