Fires and floods are causing infrastructure damage worldwide, leaving low-volume roads particularly vulnerable. Road that can be built or rebuilt efficiently, to quality standards, and with a durable driving surface will be most resilient to storm damage and reduce life-cycle costs. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, November 4, 2024 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Eastern that will present tools to help understand expected performances from wearing course materials on unpaved roads, how to blend different gravel sources to optimize unpaved road performance, and to select soil stabilization and dust control treatments that will produce a durable and climate resilient low-volume road driving surface.
This webinar is a follow on to TRB Webinar: Optimizing Unpaved Road Design with a Materials Blending Tool held on July 21, 2022.
This webinar is based on NCHRP Synthesis 485: Converting Paved Roads to Unpaved.
This webinar is sponsored by TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program and the Standing Technical Committee on Low Volume Roads.
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.
A recording will be sent to all registrants after the webinar.
 
Webinar agenda and presenters

• Using web-based tools to select the most appropriate wearing course materials – David Jones, University of California, Davis
• Using web-based tools to select the most appropriate chemical treatments to improve performance – Stefan Louw, University of California, Davis
• Question and answer session moderated by Gordon R. Keller, Genesee Geotechnical

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:

• Select unpaved road materials and understand likely performance
• Optimize unpaved road performance by blending two or more materials following a balanced mix design approach
• Select the most appropriate chemical treatment for a given material and set of road conditions

 
Professional Development Hours
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.
This webinar will be delivered as a scheduled – e-learning live event and is categorized within RCEP as Technical, Health and Safety.
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.
 
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