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Nordic NO.2 2007
Road Constructiopn, Operation and Maintenance

Climate Change and Road management
The vulnerability of road pavements and transport systems to climate change impacts depends on their impact response. Abnormal weather events like floods and storms have occurred in recent years, causing disturbance and damage. Important tasks for consideration are as follows: contingency planning, revision of design criteria, improvement of pavements and structures to ensure the service level and adaptation of maintenance operations.

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Cycle Path Inspections
In 2005 the Norwegian government adopted the National Cycling
Strategy as part of the National Transport Plan for 2006–2015.
The main objective of the strategy is to make it safer and more
attractive to cycle. The main measures under implementation are
larger investment budgets, better maintenance of existing bicycle facilities, improved traffic regulations and competence building.


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Content
Nordic NO.2 2007
In Brief
COIN - Concrete Innovation Centre
Towards Sound Methods of Cost-Benefit
Road Accidents in the Winter
Climate Change and Road Management
Environmentally Sound Road Construction in High Mountain Areas
Recycling of Asphalt Containing Tar
Development Strategies
Whispering Asphalt
Planning for "Bicycle Tube"
Cycle Path Inspections
Beware!
The Landscape Plays a Role When You Drive
Fatigue at Sea
PPP - the Key to Future Infrastructure?
Competitive Tendering
Vision Zero: Radical Progress or Empty Rhetoric?