TRB Webinar: Optimizing Unpaved Road Design with a Materials Blending Tool

How can you make the most of unpaved road designs? TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, July 21, 2022 12:30 – 2:00 PM Eastern that will demonstrate a web-based material blending tool for designing unpaved roads. The tool is also useful for converting distressed low-volume paved roads to engineered unpaved roads. Presenters will provide step-by-step instructions for using the tool and discuss how to interpret the results.

This webinar is sponsored by the TRB Standing Technical Committees on Low-Volume Roads and Aggregates.

Registration is free for employees of TRB sponsors as well as Titanium and Cobalt Global Affiliates. The registration rate for all other attendees is $60. Sign into MyTRB.org to view registration information. Contact Patrice Davenport to inquire about becoming a TRB sponsor or global affiliate organization.

Webinar agenda and presenters

1. Using the material blending tool - Stefan Low, University of California, Davis
2. Interpret results - David Jones, University of California, Davis
3. Question and answer session moderated by Laura Fay, Western Transportation Institute

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.

Learning Objectives

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

1. Utilize the web-based materials blending tool
2. Interpret the tool’s results to optimize unpaved road design
3. Convert distressed low-volume paved road to unpaved roads

Professional Development Hour Information

Professional engineers (PEs) who register and attend the entire webinar as an individual will be awarded 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs). TRB’s webinar program awards PDH credits only to the registered individual, and not to other members of a group that view the webinar together. To be eligible for the credits, individuals must remain signed in for the entire webinar, including for any question and answer session following the presentations.

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

TRB will report credits earned to the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005.

Pre-registration is required. Once the webinar starts, you will be unable to register. Individuals that are registered for a webinar but do not receive their confirmation emails due to their organization’s internal firewalls should contact the TRB Helpdesk for assistance in signing in.

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Registration questions? Contact TRB webinar program.