With encouragement to “be bold” LaToya Johnson, Pavement Design and Performance Team Leader-Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), set a positive and productive course for a 1-1/2 day “Concrete Pavement Strategic Planning Meeting” in mid-August at the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) headquarters in Rosemont, Illinois, USA. Meeting participants included officials from the FHWA, State Departments of Transportation (DOTs), academia, and industry, including Jerry Voigt-ACPA.
DAY ONE was equally divided:
1 – Discussions on current concerns and limitations of concrete pavement design, and
2 – Ways to evaluate long-life pavement strategies in spite of constraints and limitations
DAY TWO included breakout sessions and group reports on the benefits of and implementation of long-life pavement strategies.
Framing the discussions and break-out sessions were presentations on pavement design by:
Mark Snyder, President-Pavement Engineering and Research Consultants (PERC)
Tom Yu, Pavement Design Program Manager-FHWA
Tom Van Dam, Principal Engineer-NCE
Meeting Facilitators:
Kurt Smith, Program Director-Applied Pavement Technology, and
Prashant Ram, Pavement Engineer-Applied Pavement Technology
A key deliverable of the meeting will be a white paper that will capture key points from the stakeholders and which will be used for future planning. For more information, please go to: http://www.acpa.org/18456-2/