Book now … the early booking deadline for PPRS 2015 in Paris has been extended

Book now … the first Pavement Preservation &-Recycling (World) Summit (PPRS 2015), due to take place in the Palais des Congrès in Paris from February 22 2015 to February 25 2015, has extended its deadline for early bird registration November 15 2014.
November 13, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
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Book now … the first Pavement Preservation &-Recycling (World) Summit (7924 PPRS 2015), due to take place in the Palais des Congrès in Paris from February 22 2015 to February 25 2015, has extended its deadline for early bird registration November 15 2014. 

With more than 250 delegates already registered, PPRS 2015 will bring together a host of international organisations interested in encouraging governments national and local to increase their investment plans for road surface quality worldwide.

Participating bodies will include: PIARC, ITF/OCDE, the World Bank and ERF, as well as Ministries of Transport from Australia, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. Universities taking part include Maryland, Mexico, Ohio and Paris. Road user bodies and lobby groups will be there too such as the American Highways Users Alliance alongside professional institutions like AAPA, FNTP, IGGA, NCAT, NCPP and USIRF.

According to Jean-François Corté, the chairman of PPRS Paris 2015 and Secretary General of the World Road Association (PIARC) “the global economic crisis has dealt a strong, durable blow to public finances in many countries, leading decision-makers to focus on the overriding need to maintain the existing network using the most efficient techniques. The very vitality of our economies is at stake.”

Corte is worried that there is now a “chronic lack of sufficient (road) maintenance” and the “widespread economic and societal impact of inadequate (highway) maintenance is often greatly underestimated: increased transport times and costs, reduced reliability for transport times, loss of full accessibility to services and local markets, greater safety risks for road users.”

The PPRS Paris 2015 Congress wants to address these issues at a high level and the event has, the organisers say, “been designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues associated with pavement preservation.”

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