INNOVATION IN THE FIELD OF ROAD ENGINEERING

The French Road Directorate has always developed and promoted innovation in collaboration with contractor companies; its road innovation policy has been evolving for many years. It recently set up the Road Innovation Charter as a structural procedure to encourage the development and dissemination of major innovations in road engineering. This article describes the Charter's organisation and functioning. The Charter was signed in 1992 by the Directorate of Roads and professional organisations, to lay down a framework of rules. It applies to products, processes, and equipment, not sufficiently tested and used in a given application to allow standardisation or technical assessment. Its four stages are prospective and experimental sample sections, and technical and economic demonstration job sites. A project's 'protocol of agreement' defines an innovative technique to be tested, its innovation programme, conditions of testing and monitoring, and commitments and guarantees by the Directorate of Roads and the contractor under the Charter. 39 protocols of agreement have been signed under the Charter.

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• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Chargros, Y
  • Guidoux, Y
  • Dupont, P
• Publication Date: 1996-10

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Media Info

• Pagination: p. 20-6
• Serial:
  • Routes/Roads
  • Issue Number: 292
  • Publisher: World Road Association (PIARC)
  • ISSN: 0004-556X
  • Serial URL: http://www.piarc.org/en/publications/Routes-Roads-Magazine/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Continuous structures; Contractors; Deterioration; Equipment; Evaluation and assessment; Federal government; Field tests; Pavements; Policy; Road construction; Rutting; Standards; Surveillance; Test procedures
• Geographic Terms: France
• ITRD Terms: 9006: Continuous; 136: Contractor; 5255: Deterioration; 3674: Equipment; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 8036: France; 183: Government (national); 6226: In situ; 2955: Pavement; 173: Policy; 3665: Road construction; 3081: Rutting (wheel); 187: Specification (standard); 9101: Surveillance; 6288: Test method
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00735386
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 29 1997 12:00AM