| Title | Pavement and Mix Design in Europe and Automated Survey Challenges |
| Speaker | Prof. Paulo Pereira |
| Biography |
Paulo Pereira is Professor of Transportation at the Department of Civil
Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho); at present Head of the
Research Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction. PhD in
Civil Engineering – Contribution to a Road Management System – in 1988,
leading the Department of Civil Engineering at UMinho for twelve years.
From 2010 to 2013, he was the Dean of the School of Engineering of
UMinho.
Topics of research include Highway Engineering, Road Pavements, Road Management Systems, Asphalt Pavement Materials, Road Surface Characterisitcs, Road Safety and Urban Mobility. Project Coordinator of the Portuguese Pavement Management System, developed for the national road administration. Published more than two hundred and fourty papers in international and national Journals and Conferences. He has chaired and co-chaired several international and national Conferences on Pavements and Transport Infrastructures. Member of Editorial Board of four international Journals. Founder of iSMARTi society and former President.
| Abstract |
Pavement and Mix Design represent the key components of a sustainable approach inside the Life Cycle of a road infrastructure, with links to political, economic, technical, societal and environmental issues. This keynote lecture, firstly, will present a brief historical overview of pavement design methods, highlighting early limitations of old empirical methods. Furthermore, methods currently in use in Europe will be presented, underlining their main components, as well as theirachievements and challenges, stressing issues not yet solved. Finally, for this very wide topic, future ahead, in terms of main research topics deserving next investments by academia, institutions and companies, will be presented.
Keywords: Road pavements, Pavement design, Traffic, Geometry, Climatic conditions, Materials composition and behavior, Mixes design and modelisation, Future challenges.