Conference Day One: Monday, 14 November 2016

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• Enhancement of transport - land use planning, optimise benefit of investments, and move away from ‘singleproject’ approach, to fulfil community and economic growth needs
• Importance of consideration of all project components at the feasibility study stage to integrate policy issues, engineering, economic, road safety, ITS, maintenance, transport services, traffic management, urban issues and social issues
• Consideration of the new UN Sustainable Development Goal needs
• Adoption of evidence-based design of policy, procedures and implementation plan including supply-demand issues to ensure work contributes to achieving organisation and national goals

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Implementing systematic safety checks of existing roads to improve the planning and design of safer road networks. This includes preventative tools such as:

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• Understand how basic asset management programmes don’t have to bear burdensome costs but can save asset owners billions
• Hear why “Whole of Life Costing” is becoming increasingly important as budgets are squeezed
• Gain an understanding of effective asset management techniques from the tender stage of the successful handover to the client

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This presentation will cover:

• A macro overview of the Orbital Highway system, Qatar’s largest expressway programme
• Lessons about the triumphs and struggles of the project and ways in which you can emulate the same successes and avoid the same challenges
• Uncovering ways in which the project has innovated the design process in order to emulate these similar prolific practices on future initiatives

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• Better traffic technology: This includes tools and methods for traffic enforcement
• Smarter road design: This includes new trends in pavement design and advanced road markings
• Clean and green construction: This includes recycling methods and technologies and methodologies to reduce air and noise pollution

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• The design and construction of large scale projects and associated challenges
• The design of signature road bridges
• The challenges of working in an urban environment

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As Qatar develops to build a multimodal transport network, it is important to address the challenges of integrating a rail network into an existing road network and the design, engineering and safety aspects that are involved for a successful delivery.

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