Strategic Research Focus
-Behavior of hot mixed asphalt paving materials - understanding and prediction rutting resistance, effectiveness of pavement preservation treatments.
-Thermal Transport and temperature response of pavements.
-Infrastructure/asset management systems - implementation challenges &
adaptation of new technologies.
-Road roughness and pavement evaluation technologies and Pavement performance
modeling.
-Life cycle cost analysis and investment appraisal systems- road user
cost models.
-Development of Pavement design science - addressing impacts of post-SHRP
findings, SUPERPAVE, and implications of AASHTO 2002 initiative.
-Innovative use of Roadway Weather Information System (RWIS) in optimization
of road maintenance operations.
-Application of geogrids and Geosythetic Reinforcement in pavement layers.
