EXHIBITION NEWS

INTEROUTE&VILLE: 3 excellent options for taking part!

Indoors, outdoors or on Innovation Square: 3 solutions for taking part in INTEROUTE&VILLE 2008.
Exhibitors taking part in the exhibition can choose how they would like to present their products. Depending on the size of equipment, stand layout and solutions being presented, stands will be installed either inside the halls or outdoors. Innovation Square is a third option, giving exhibitors the opportunity to take part in a huge specially-designed area with their products and equipment.
For more information on Innovation Square

CONFERENCE NEWS

Participants: registration is open!

If you’d like to register for the INTEROUTE&VILLE conference, you have two options: 
by post: download the registration form (in French) and send it back to us by

• post along with your payment,
• register directly on-line on this site by clicking here.

NB: the cost of the INTEROUTE&VILLE conference may be covered by the Formation Professionnelle Continue (Continuing Vocational Training system), and special rates apply to students and local authority staff.

3 questions for Charles Blanpain, specialist consultant for the conference design 
 

• Charles Blanpain*, you’re a consultant to the Interoute&Ville conference, and you put together this year’s conference programme. Can you briefly describe this year’s conference?
  First of all, this year the conference is being sponsored by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Planning, a clear sign that the the conference is gaining recognition.
  The presentations that make up the conference look at the latest developments in the construction, maintenance and operation of road networks of every kind. These themes are joined by other topics that have become more relevant, such as public debate, managing networks during crisis periods, the standards system and Eurocodes, innovations currently being researched or tested, and roads in an urban context, i.e. streets.

• With 40 sessions and almost 200 speakers, this is a comprehensive conference, with presentations that tackle a variety of themes. What criteria guided you when choosing the themes?
  Our choices resulted primarily from the proposals of the Steering Committee, made up of different elements of the road community.
  The themes also take into account current issues and new developments. In 2006, some of the national network was transferred to local authorities, and several conferences tackled this subject, which was very important.
  We felt that 2008 was the right moment to look back over the last few decades and consider the basics of techniques known as white and black engineering, and of engineering structures.
  We also decided to look at standards, the energy content of products and techniques, and documents that help draw up regulatory paperwork.
  We called on leading experts for each subject, which should give this year’s conference an excellent technical level, as well as underscoring a pluri-disciplinary approach to roads and streets.

• What sort of people is the conference targeting? And what will they get out of taking part in the conference?
  Until now, roads have mainly been seen as catering for road traffic, particularly in the countryside. Roads as an urban preoccupation gradually developed through such factors as road operation, safety and equipment, and so on.
  In urban areas, the road, or street, has far broader functions. It accommodates a number of networks that require various interventions which have an impact on road-building techniques.
  But the street is primarily a restricted area where hugely diverse users intersect, each seeking their own path, a scenario that calls for different management mechanisms and specific equipment.
  The country road is a factor in land planning; when it becomes a street it also becomes a criteria for urban quality. It has increasingly sophisticated qualities, making it the place where numerous challenges converge.
  The conference presentations are designed for all the players in the design, construction, maintenance and operation of roads and streets, whether they belong to local authorities or state services; these are people, whether specialists or not, who need answers to the questions they ask on a daily basis.

EVENT NEWS

  The "Place de l’Innovation",
an authentic view of life in a moving world

The INTEROUTE&VILLE exhibition is creating an innovative outdoor activity area.

In an outdoor area of 3,210 square metres at the entrance to the exhibition, visitors will be able to watch dynamic demonstrations of materials, equipment and techniques relating to roadworks and the maintenance of urban areas and/or roads: surfacing techniques (cold, depolluting, coloured urban etc), grit blasting techniques, sectionalized pavements, materials and techniques for marking roads and monitoring pavements, finishers, loaders, road sweepers, signage equipment, equipment for monitoring weather conditions, urban furniture etc. 

Visitors will discover innovative solutions to their concerns about sustainable development, safety and security, aesthetics etc, all in a working environment.

Events, workshops, dynamic presentations and a lifesize display will help to introduce the key themes of the INTEROUTE&VILLE exhibition, which always aims to be one step ahead.

The dynamic demonstrations will take place once a day, between 12.00 noon and 1.30 pm.

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