The next 5th of April it will celebrate the first International Day of Road Maintenance (International Road Maintenance Day, IRMD) the IRMD 2018

It proposed an excellent initiative from Asefma (Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Asphalt Mixture) and adds up consciences over the globe, such as ZAS (Slovenia) Routes de France (former USIRF France), ERF (European Road Federation) and Eurobitume, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and BITAFAL from Uruguay, among others.

The reason for the celebration of this day is to show that the world as we know it today is only possible by roads and must properly preserve them. Institutionalizing the idea is to be held every first Thursday of April.

In the 2018 edition of IRMD, under the slogan "It protects the roads conserving the environment"It aims to draw attention to the influence of the condition of roads in emissions from vehicles on them.

He program of the day next Thursday April 5 in Madrid-Spain, will be from 9 to 12 (local time) and will feature two panel discussions:

1- The opinions of road users

2- The position makers

To access the free online transmission can be registered through the platform ITAFEC on the following link: https://www.itafec.com/event/detail/id/277

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:

Mas info: https://www.ptcarretera.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IRMD-2018-Spain.pdf

Blog Juan José Potti (President of ASEFMA) https://blogdejjpotti.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/irmd2018-un-dia-internacional-sobre-la-conservacion-de-carreteras/

Manifesto IRMD_ https://www.asefma.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/manifiesto_IRMD2018.pdf

Official page # IRMD2018 https://roadmaintenanceday.org/es/inicio/