Month: April 2015

It is being held in a newly developed section of historical Alexandria, VA; only a short distance from the King Street Metro station, an Amtrak train station and the fine architecture, galleries and dining of Old Town Alexandria. Washington, DC is just across the river, a short Metro ride away!

The conference begins on Monday, May 18 with two morning and two afternoon workshops to choose from. In the evening there will be a fun filled reception at the Carlyle Club, literally steps across the street from The Westin Alexandria conference hotel. There will be many excellent plenary and technical breakout sessions beginning Tuesday morning and ending on Thursday afternoon. Not to be missed on Wednesday evening is an innovation themed gala dinner at the US Patent and Trademark Office building, only a few blocks walk from the Westin. It is a light and airy architectural space with an interpretive museum for all to enjoy. There will be a few speakers there to help stretch your thinking too, possibly to help you achieve innovation!

Come to learn and network with 300 hundred fellow professionals, industry exhibitors and poster session presenters! There will also be opportunities to attend a few invitational meetings and optional site visits on Friday, May 22. For more information and details please refer to: http://icmpa9.org/

Stephen Maher

TRB Staff Representative for the Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems (AFD10)

The 9th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets will be held on May 18 through 21 in Arlington, Virginia. Registration for the event closes on April 17, 2015.

The conference will include a number of workshops, presentations, and interactive poster sessions and address sustainability, accountability, and improved pavement performance.

“It will bring together pavement design and management engineers, consultants, and companies to define ‘next-generation’ methods in road construction as well as road maintenance and upkeep,” said Gerardo Flintsch, director of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute’s Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure.

An executive panel has been selected from worldwide establishments such as Federal Highway Administration, the Virginia Department of Transportation, Brisa Inovação e Tecnologia, and World Road Association. Joining the executive panel are keynote speakers who will discuss a variety of related topics as well as share their innovative ideas regarding pavement developments.

There will also be an innovation-themed gala and dinner held at the United States Patent and Trademark Office on May 20, 2015.

Young professionals and students are also invited to attend and participate in events like the Pavement Management Challenge, a speed networking event, and session monitor assignments.

Gratitude is extended to the conference’s sponsors: Deighton, Fugro, Pathway Services, Inc., Dynatest, AgileAssets, Stantec Consulting, Inc.

For more information or questions regarding the conference, please visit www.icmpa9.org or contact the following committee members:

Gerardo Flintsch, 540-231-9748, flintsch@vt.edu
Tanveer Chowdhury, 804-786-0694, tanveer.chowdhury@vdot.virginia.gov
Brittany Baker, 540-231-9488, brittb3@vt.edu

 

Article written by Maya Chapman, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Communications  Intern

Hello everyone!

This is a space for conversations about pavement management systems, hosted by the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems, “AFD10.”  On a regular basis, we will invite members, friends, and experts to contribute articles with news, questions, ideas, or thoughts on pavement management systems.  And we welcome everyone’s participation in the comments thread (just give us a little time to approve you for comments the first time you post one).

2015 is a big year for pavement management systems at least in the United States, as we all focus on finalizing, or implementing, or complying with, new rules on performance measures for our pavements.  State Departments of Transportation are busy parsing through the rules proposed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), formulating their comments so that the process can move forward, and looking at their own business processes to see what it takes to comply with requirements.  They may be bringing in outside experts on board to help, which means the private sector and academia are also active.

This flurry of activity makes the 9th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets especially timely and attractive as a way to become immersed in the topic, or to catch up on the rapid and major developments happening in the field with perspectives ranging from the local to the global.

And we hope this blog is a useful, lively, and easy way to be connected, and stay connected, to Pavement Management Systems.

Sincerely,

Ed

 

Edgardo D. Block, Chair, TRB Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems (AFD10)