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Title: A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering NCHRP 207223 AASHTO Joint Technical Committee on Pavements


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A Strategic Plan for Pavement EngineeringNCHRP
20-7(223)AASHTO Joint Technical Committee on
Pavements
  • Dan Dawood, P.E.
  • Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
  • July 15, 2008

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • The NCHRP 20-7(223) was initiated to identify
    major challenges and opportunities which would
    serve as the basis for a strategic plan for
    pavement engineering
  • These grand challenges, if overcome would
    result in significant advances in pavement
    engineering

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • A panel was formed with the members from the
    following groups to identify the major challenges
    and opportunities
  • AASHTO JTCOP members
  • FHWA
  • Academia
  • Consulting Firms
  • ACPA NAPA

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • The Workshops purpose was to identify, evaluate,
    and prioritize research problems to ensure that
    the overall effort was aligned with a quality
    based research program.

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Through the consensus building process seven
    grand challenges were identified
  • Managing the Network
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Fostering Innovation
  • Elevating Status and Outreach

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Each grand challenge was defined by a brief
    statement of importance and our current
    preparedness in dealing with the specific
    challenge
  • A list of important research activities was
    generated with benchmarks set
  • Short term (2-3 years)
  • Mid term (4-5 years)
  • Long term ( gt 5 years)

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Through the consensus building process seven
    grand challenges were identified
  • Managing the Network
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Fostering Innovation
  • Elevating Status and Outreach

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Managing the Network
  • Planning for implications of decisions throughout
    the pavement life cycle on overall quality ,
    safety, and longevity of the network (
    implications of preventive maintenance and
    rehabilitation) and integrating pavement
    management into asset management decisions

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Anticipated Outcomes
  • Extended pavement life through timely use of
    preservation rehabilitation
  • Optimizing allocation of funding through more
    accurate measures of funding needs
  • Improved data integration and enhanced
    performance data to facilitate improved ME models
    and designs

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Through the consensus building process seven
    grand challenges were identified
  • Managing the Network
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Fostering Innovation
  • Elevating Status and Outreach

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • To address pavement functional characteristics
    and to develop guidelines for achieving
    acceptable safety, noise and smoothness
    characteristics

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Anticipated Outcomes
  • Guidelines focused on functional characteristics
    of pavements and the design and construction of
    practices for achieving acceptable and optimum
    safety, noise, and smoothness levels
  • (implementation of noise reducing pavements, FHWA
    Traffic Noise Model, surface characteristics,
    methods to evaluate splash and spray, etc)

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Through the consensus building process seven
    grand challenges were identified
  • Managing the Network
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Fostering Innovation
  • Elevating Status and Outreach

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Ensuring Quality
  • To achieve better performing pavements by using
    performance specifications and construction
    quality assurance programs in which acceptance
    measures accurately characterize quality

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Anticipated Outcomes
  • Enhanced performance related specifications which
    consider relationships among key performance
    factors
  • Improved quality control and assurance
  • Improved contracting and construction

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Through the consensus building process seven
    grand challenges were identified
  • Managing the Network
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Fostering Innovation
  • Elevating Status and Outreach

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • To provide long-lasting pavements that make
    optimal use of available materials and have
    minimal impact on the environment through
    understanding of the materials and their impact
    on performance

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Anticipated Outcomes
  • A set of strategies to advance sustainable
    pavements that will incorporate the following
  • Optimized use of available materials
  • Enhancement of the MEPDG
  • Longer life pavements
  • Cost effective pavements
  • Improve Overall Network condition

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Through the consensus building process seven
    grand challenges were identified
  • Managing the Network
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Fostering Innovation
  • Elevating Status and Outreach

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Understanding the existing approaches to
    management and the dissemination of pavement
    engineering knowledge and to develop new and
    effective approaches to emerging technology

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Anticipated Outcomes
  • Strategies to enhance and cultivate knowledge
    and dissemination of pavement engineering leading
    to
  • Well trained and qualified workforce in
    sufficient numbers to meet
    agency and industry needs
  • Effective leaders in pavement engineering
  • Implementable best practices and technologies

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Through the consensus building process seven
    grand challenges were identified
  • Managing the Network
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Fostering Innovation
  • Elevating Status and Outreach

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Fostering Innovation
  • To foster innovations in pavement engineering
    practice that will lead to advancements in
    design, contracting, construction, maintenance,
    and rehabilitation techniques

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Anticipated Outcomes
  • Innovations in all aspects of the pavement that
    would occur during its service life resulting in
  • Improved pavement performance
  • Improved service and safety for highway users
  • Reduced vehicle operating and delay costs
  • Reduced agency costs for maintenance and
    rehabilitation

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Through the consensus building process seven
    grand challenges were identified
  • Managing the Network
  • Optimizing Functional Service
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Pursuing Sustainability
  • Managing Knowledge
  • Fostering Innovation
  • Elevating Status and Outreach

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Elevating Status and Outreach
  • To communicate to legislators and the public the
    importance of pavements to the nations
    infrastructure and to aid transportation
    officials and high level decision makers make
    informed decisions

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • Anticipated Outcomes
  • An effective outreach program that will
  • Improve awareness of challenges in the pavement
    area
  • Help transportation officials make better
    informed decisions
  • Support adequate and consistent funding
  • Support establishing an AASHTO Highway
    Subcommittee on Pavements

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
  • This list of business needs was developed to
    indicate the range of topics of interest to
    pavement engineers.
  • Details on this effort can be found in
  • NCHRP Research Results Digest 276, Business Needs
    for Pavement Engineering

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A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
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