PIARC Work Zone management Digital Toolkit
The World Road Association (PIARC) undertook a Special Project in 2025 to examine how road worksites—also known as work zones—are managed worldwide. These sites are essential for building, maintaining, and modernising transport networks, but they also bring challenges: higher crash risk, congestion, environmental impacts, and disruption to communities and freight. This digital toolkit distils the project’s findings into practical, globally relevant resources for road authorities, contractors, and practitioners. It combines a structured Work Zone Management Framework with a suite of seven interactive tools, helping agencies improve safety, mobility, and sustainability outcomes across all income contexts.
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A self-assessment instrument to evaluate organisational maturity. This
confidential tool benchmarks current capabilities against the
Integrated Framework, identifying strengths and areas for improvement
to inform strategic planning.
Work Zone Safety System Maturity Assessment Tool
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A filterable catalogue of work zone safety controls and technologies. This library details the purpose, advantages, limitations, and potential failure modes for a range of measures to support informed, risk-based selection.
Control Measure & Technology Explorer
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A dedicated design guide for the safe accommodation of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs). This resource provides key design parameters, a hierarchy of controls, and practical guidance for creating safe and accessible temporary routes.
Designing road work zones for Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) tool
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An interactive e-learning module on risk identification. This self-paced course covers the fundamentals of hazard identification and risk management, providing a foundational competency for all personnel involved in worksite safety.
Risk Identification Training Module
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A searchable catalogue of global work zone safety guidance. This interactive map provides a curated library of standards, laws, and guidelines, with direct access to official documents from jurisdictions worldwide.
Global Work Zone Safety Literature Catalogue
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A tool to quantify the impacts of worksite disruption. This calculator estimates the additional carbon emissions, fuel consumption, and economic delay costs from a worksite, providing data to support more holistic, multi-objective planning.
Emissions & Delay Estimator
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