Users will drive investment policy, say keynote speakers at PPRS 2018

The world’s highway networks are facing “a major paradigm shift” from a past that was based on hardware, engineering, economic, analogue, vehicle and supply driven solutions to a future that will be based instead on software, social, environmental, digital, multi-modal demand-driven solutions.

Think road users and the customers first if you want to help drive future road policy said Young Tae Kim, secretary general of the International Transport Forum (ITF), speaking at the opening ceremony of PPRS 2018, the Pavement Preservation and Recycling Summit in Nice, France.

“When public budgets are tight, maintenance spend tends to be cut,” the ITF boss told the conference’s 900 delegates from more than 50 countries. “This is why…