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Plenary Session 1

Moderator – Edgar de León Izeppi

• Welcome
  Jose Gomez (VTRC), Timothy Sands (Virginia Tech)
• US Keynote Speaker
  Pete Stephanos
• International Keynote Speaker
  Richard Wix

Plenary Session 2

Moderator: Kevin McGhee

• Pavement Evaluation: Right measures? Right quality? Right analysis? Right quantity? What is the benefit?
  Thomas Van (Federal Highway Administration), Rudy Blanco (Pathway Services), Rohan Perera (Soil and Materials Engineers), Bouzid Choubane (Florida Department of Transportation), John Andrews (Maryland State Highway Administration), Briane Ferne (Transportation Research Laboratory)

Functional Session 1: Longitudinal Profile

Moderator: Magdy Mikhail

• Update on Profiler Pooled Fund
  Magdy Mikhail
• Evaluate Pavement Roughness Using Acceleration and Vehicle Speed Data
  Huanghui Zeng
• Road Cracking Detection by Using Smartphone Accelerometer
  Koichi Yagi
• A Pavement Longitudinal Inertial Profiler Based on 1mm 3D Surface Data
  Kelvin Wang
• Achieving High Correlations of Inertial Profilers with Reference Profilers at the Smart Road
  Paul Toom

General Session 1: Never Technologies

Moderator: Li Ningyuan

• Automatic Detection of Broken Slab on Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement (JPCP) Using Sensor-derived Vibration Data
  Yiching Wu
• High Friction Surface Treatment Aggregate Durability Study
  David Merritt
• Road National Virtual Library
  Agustin Oseguera
• Implementation of a multi-modal mobile sensor system for surface and subsurface assessment of roadways
  Ming Wang

Functional Session 2: 3D Systems

Moderator: Andy Mergenmeier

• Automated Pavement Analysis
  Ray Mandli
• Using 3D transverse profiles (4000 points) and IMUs to measure road geometry to generate high resolution DTM models of pavement surfaces
  John Laurent
• Distress Image Library for Precision and Bias Analysis of Fully Automated Pavement Cracking Survey
  Kelvin Wang
• Advancing Pavement Evaluation to Support MAP 21
  Jerome Daleiden

Structural Session 1: GPR in Structural Evaluation

Moderator: David Kaulfers

• Integration of GPR and core data laboratory testing for forensic investigation of roadway pavement features
  Cherif Amer-Yahia
• Combining TSD and NM-GPR for rapid road investigations: Preliminary work
  Wayne Muller
• Implementation of GPR Mapping of New Asphalt Density
  Ken Maser
• North Dakota County Roads Pavement Network Structural Condition Assessment: Integration of GPR and FWD Data
  Ken Maser

Functional Session 3: Pavement Friction

Moderator: George Chang

• An update on HFST for Horizontal Curves
  David Merritt
• New Test Method for Pavement Frictional Properties
  John Andrews
• Road Network Pavement Management Program
  Ross McCarthy
• Friction Studies - from Passive to Intelligent Tires
  Saled Taheri

Structural Session 2: Evaluation of deflection devices

Moderator: Doug Chalman

• Evaluation of the TSD in Germany
  Dirk Jansen
• Evaluation of Accuracy and Precision of Several Highway Speed Deflection Devices
  Soheil Nazarian
• How do 1st and 2nd generation Traffic Speed Deflectometers compare? - Results of a UK trial
  Brian Ferne
• Verification of Traffic Speed Deflectometer measurements using Instrumented Pavements in South Africa
  Louw Kannemeyer

Functional Session 4: Macrotexture

Moderator: Kevin McGhee

• Monitoring Pavement Surface Texture and Friction, a Case Study
  Nima Kargah-Ostadi
• Evaluating Pavement Texture Uniformity in Connecticut
  John Henault
• Filtering and spike removal methodology for high-speed laser texture measurements
  Samer Katicha
• Virtual Surface for Runways, Multi-Lane Highways, Bridge Decks at True 1mm Resolution
  Joshua Li

Structural Session 3: Current applications

Moderator: Larry Scofield

• Continuous deflection measurements with the Curviameter for project and network management
  Carl Van Geem
• Survey and Analysis of the Pavement Structure at Network and Project Levels
  J. Antonio Rmaos Garcia
• Evaluating the performance of new and in-serivce pavements in Italy using high-speed non-destructive testing
  Stefano Drusin
• TSD acceptance testing in Australia
  Richard Wix

Functional Session 5: Pavement Management

Moderator: Akyiaa Hosten

• Variability of Pavement Surface Evaluations
  Jerome Daleiden
• Using Automatically Collected Data to Improve Pavement Performance Evaluation and Rehabilitation Programming
  Li Ningyuan
• Data Driven Monitoring and Management of Pavements based on large amounts of surface and subsurface sensor data
  Salar Shamsabadi
• Development of a Pavement Management Solution with Camera Based Distress Characterization
  Dennis Scott

Structural Session 4: Future applications

Moderator: Trenton Clark

• Network Level Pavement Structural Evaluations - A Way Forward
  Nadarajah Sivaneswaran
• Network structural surveys in the UK - current status and future European developments
  Brian Ferne
• Network Level Structural Evaluation with the TSD device
  Samer Katicha
• Investigation of Applicability and Use of a Pavement Response Model with High Speed Deflection Devices
  Raj Siddharthan

Plenary Session 3

• RPUG Door Prizes and Awards Meeting
  Doug Chalman
• FHWA Report
  Robert Rozycki
• Theme Summaries
  John Andrews, Brian Ferne
• Closing Remarks
  Kevin McGhee