TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, August 21, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that discusses two new tools designed by the Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Program: the LTPP Climate and LTPPBind Online tools. The LTPP Climate Tool offers users access to climate data derived from NASA’s Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) database for applications including climate research, infrastructure design, management, and research, crash studies and more. The LTPPBind Online tool helps state transportation departments select the most suitable performance graded binder for asphalt concrete pavement at a particular site based on American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials standards. This webinar will discuss the background research that went into each tool and will provide a series of demonstrations of the software.

This webinar was organized by the TRB Standing Committee on Pavement Condition Evaluation and the Standing Committee on Pavement Structural Modeling and Evaluation.

Some registrants will need to pay a fee to attend this webinar. Sign into MyTRB.org to view registration information.

Webinar Presenters

• Larry Wiser, Federal Highway Administration
• Charles Schwartz, University of Maryland
• Riaz Ahmad, iENGINEERING, Inc.

Moderated by: Jonathan Groeger, Amec Foster Wheeler

Webinar Outline

1. Introduction
2. The LTPP climate study
3. Demo of LTPP climate tool
4. The LTPP Bind study
5. Demonstration of the LTPPBind Online tool
6. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions. The Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP) categorizes this webinar activity as relating to health, safety, and welfare including core technical.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the LTPP Climate study and the lessons learned from the effort.
• Understand how the LTPP Climate tool functions and how to extract data from the tool.
• Describe the LTPP Bind study and the lessons learned from the effort.
• Understand how the LTPP Bind program works and how to run an analysis.

Professional Development Hour Information
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A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be provided to Professional Engineers (PEs) who register and attend the webinar as an individual. For groups, only the person that registers and attends the session will receive a PDH certificate. Certificates of Completion will be issued only to individuals who register for and attend the entire webinar session.

Individuals registered as Florida PEs are no longer required to email TRB with your license number to report your attendance. Instead, please use your certificate that TRB provides through RCEP.net as verification of your attendance to the Florida Board of Professional Engineers.

Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.

This webinar was developed in March 2017. TRB has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP by TRB. Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Website: www.RCEP.net.

Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.