MRC THEMES

Every edition of MRC carries a timely theme created to address current local situations and even encompassing scenarios worldwide. The theme rightly chosen for the 11th MRC / 4th IRF Congress was Towards Resilient Road Infrastructure considering the recent devastating damage to public infrastructure and private properties as a result of unprecedented rainfall and subsequent massive flooding and forest fires. The trauma, anxiety and misery faced by the affected victims were equally heart-wrenching. Such incidents have been emerging in many parts of the world, even in developed countries as a result of extreme weather, climate change, population growth and aging infrastructure.

As resilience is the ability to bounce back to normalcy after facing adversity, the technical sessions for this conference and congress were formulated to address and find solutions to the inevitable challenges ahead.

Other previous MRC themes were:

1st MRC  1994 -           Road Towards Nation Building

2nd MRC 1996 -           Innovation in Road Building

3rd MRC 1998 -           Quality Through Standardisation

4th MRC 2000 -           Towards Better Highway Environment

5th MRC 2022 -           Maximisation of Road Efficiency

6th MRC 2004 -           The Future of Road in National Economy

7th MRC 2007 -           Safer Roads: The Challenges Ahead

8th MRC 2010 -           Towards Sustainable Road Development and Operation

9th MRC 2014 -           Greening Our Roads

10th MRC 2018 -          Global Approaches to Advance Road Asset Management