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Focus Areas
More than 30 CPTP Projects are now underway in six focus areas.
Advanced Pavement Design
- Contributions to M-E Pavement Design/2002 Pavement Design Guide
(ISLAB 2000 and coefficient of thermal expansion test)
- Cost-effective design features
- High-performance pavements
- Improved joint systems
- Ultrathin whitetopping design process
Improved Concrete Materials
- Compatible combinations of concrete materials
- Concrete mixture optimization
- Improved concrete characteristics
Improved Construction Processes
- Concrete curing
- Construction traffic management
- Dowel bar placement control
- Impact of smoothness specification
- Improved construction management - HIPERPAVE II & TEMP
- Mobile concrete laboratory
- Performance-related specifications
Repair and Rehabilitation
- Field trials of promising methods
- Improved rehabilitation guidelines and strategies
- Nondestructive testing
- Precast panels for full-depth repair
- Precast panels for rapid rehabilitation
- Repair of ultrathin whitetopping
- Weekend intersection reconstruction
Workforce Training
- Communications (web site, newsletter, product alerts)
- Field demonstration projects
- Guides and training materials
- Other technology transfer activities
- Workshops for State transportation departments and academia
Enhanced User Satisfaction
- Congestion reduction
- Optimal surface texturing for noise and accident reduction
- Smoothness criteria
- Smoothness data analysis
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