Title: A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering NCHRP 207223 AASHTO Joint Technical Committee on Pavements
1A 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
2A 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
3A 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
4A 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.
5A 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
6A 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)
7A 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
8A 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
9A Strategic Plan for Pavement Engineering
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- 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
10A 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
11A 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
12A 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)
13A 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
14A 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
15A 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
16A 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
17A 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
18A 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
19A 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
20A 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
21A 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
22A 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
23A 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
24A 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
25A 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
26A 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
27A 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
28A 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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