Vital pieces of the CP Road Map are coming together. Get involved.

 

The National Concrete Pavement Technology Center at the Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University provides operations support services to the CP Road Map program.

National CP Tech Center
Institute for Transportation
2711 S. Loop Drive, Suite 4700
Ames, IA 50010
Phone: 515-294-5798
Fax: 515-294-0467
Email: Program Management ~ Communications ~ Webmaster

March-April 2012 CP Road Map E-News now online

The May-June 2012 issue of the CP Road Map E-News is available online. Click here to check it out!

To view previous issues, click here.

New publications

New Moving Advancements into Practice (MAP) brief

sustainability MAP brief cover

The May-June 2012 MAP brief summarizes the activities and achievements of the multi-year concrete overlays program.

Download it here.

For previous MAP briefs, click here.

Building Sustainable Pavements with Concrete

sustainability guide cover

A briefing document on Building Sustainable Pavements with Concrete was published under Track 12:Concrete Pavement Sustainability.

 

The second edition of the CP Road Map is here!

FHWA and the CP Road Map pooled fund are getting ready to roll out the second edition of the CP Road Map. Research tracks and problem statements have been updated, and new versions of Volume I and Volume II will be online shortly. For a comparison of the old tracks and the new tracks, check out the September-October 2011 MAP brief.


Research Tracks

The tracks listed below are currently the most active.

Priority Tracks

  1. Materials and Mixes for Concrete Pavements
  2. Performance-Based Design Guide for New and Rehabilitated Concrete Pavements
  3. Intelligent Construction Systems and Quality Assurance for Concrete Pavements
  4. Optimized Surface Characteristics for Safe, Quiet, and Smooth Concrete Pavements
  5. Concrete Pavement Maintenance and Preservation
  6. Concrete Pavement Construction, Reconstruction, and Overlays
  7. Concrete Pavement Economics and Business Management
  8. Concrete Pavement Sustainability

What is the CP Road Map?

It's a 10-year strategic plan that outlines approximately $250 million in needed concrete pavement research that will help develop a comprehensive, integrated, and fully functional system of concrete pavement technologies.

Contact

Dale Harrington is the CP Road Map Program Manager. He can answer your questions. Contact him at 515-964-2020 or dharrington@snyder-associates.com.