| 1) IRF
BEOGRAD CONFERENCE (May 27-31, 1991) "IRF
Regional Conference for Europe" was organized by International Road Federation
(IRF) on May 27-31, 1991 in Beograd, Yugoslavia. The Conference dealt with the
topic of East-West road relation by taking into consideration of the importance
of new situation which was occurred after The Soviet Union had collapsed. 44 delegations
from Turkey attended to the Conference and Turkey's paper "The Management of Motorway
and Its Financing", which was considered as an attractive component of our Motorway
Program and was named as "Turkish Model", was followed with great interest. The
Conference was very beneficial from the point of view of Turkish international
exchange of information. www.irfnet.org 2)
PIARC MARRAKECH CONGRESS (September 22-28, 1991) 48
Turkish Delegation, of which 5 was official and 43 was from Turkish Road Association,
attended to the "19th World Road Congress" which was organized by PIARC on September
22-28, 1991 in Marrakech, Moroco. The World Road Congress of PIARC takes place
every four year in one of the member countries and brings together the famous
road authorities and expets of the world and the delegation have the chance to
follow up the recent technological developments and exchange of ideas on roads.
www.piarc.org 3)
TECHNICAL MEETING I (December 12-13, 1991) A
Technical Meeting was organized by Turkish Road Association on December 12-13,
1991 with the aim of informing our members the typical engineering practices within
the framework of our Motorway program which became an international interest focus;
and also inform them about the technical problems and their solution we have encountered
while carrying out our Motorway Program. The Meeting was organized under the name
of "Geotechnical Problems and Solutions on Motorway Construction in Turkey" and
comprised of several new technologies which were mostly implemented for the first
time in our country in Geotechnical field. The Meeting was very welcomed with
appreciation among the technical staff of our universities, public and private
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