XXVI World Road Congress - Abu Dhabi 2019
The XXVIth World Road Congress was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 6-10, 2019, under the theme "Connecting cultures – Enabling economies”.

This Congress was organized in close cooperation between the World Road Association (PIARC), responsible for the content and implementation of the programme, and the Ministry of Transport of Abu Dhabi, responsible for the material organization of this Congress on behalf of the United Arab Emirates.
This site presents the pre- proceedings of the Congress.
It is now open to all, provided that they are a PIARC member or have registered on www.piarc.org (free).
It contains:
- the Congress programme, including the technical programme and the accompanying persons' programme,
- the introductory reports to the sessions,
- the national reports produced by PIARC member countries for the strategicdirection sessions,
- individual communications selected by the Technical Committees and Task Forces from among the proposals received following the call for communications,
- the activity report of the World Road Association for each of the years since the last World Road Congress in Seoul in 2015.
Note that this web site is still written in the future tense.
To access all the papers presented, you must be a PIARC member or have registered on www.piarc.org (free, https://piarc.org/en/users.newaccount.htm) and identify yourself here.
The final proceedings will be produced after the Congress.
Patrick
Malléjacq
Secretary
General
World
Road Association (PIARC)
History of the World Road Congresses
1908, Paris - 1910, Brussels - 1913, London - 1923, Seville - 1926, Milan - 1930, Washington - 1934, Munich - 1938, The Hague - 1951, Lisbon - 1955, Istanbul - 1959, Rio de Janeiro - 1964, Rome - 1967, Tokyo - 1971, Prague - 1975, Mexico - 1979, Vienna - 1983, Sydney - 1987, Brussels - 1991, Marrakech - 1995, Montreal - 1999, Kuala Lumpur - 2003, Durban - 2007, Paris - 2011, Mexico - 2015, Seoul