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TRB Webinar: Design and Preservation of Low Volume Roads


Date(s)
September 06, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM U.S. Eastern
Cost (for your seat)
$55.00
Professional Development Hours for this webinar
1.50 hour(s)
Continuing Education Hours for this webinar
AAE: 0.00 hour(s)
AICP: 0.00 hour(s)
CLE: 0.00 hour(s)
Details
TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, September 6, 2016 from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that featured selected papers from TRB’s 11th International Low Volume Road Conference, which was held in July 2015. This webinar included presentations on pavement design, holding strategies for deteriorated low volume roads, and new approaches for upgrading gravel roads.

This webinar was organized by the TRB Standing Committee on Low Volume Roads. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor or non-TRB Sustaining Affiliate employees. A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) was provided to attendees who registered and attended the webinar as an individual. Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu for instructions on receiving a copy of the recorded webinar. 

Here are the slides from the presentations.


Webinar Presenters
  • John Haddock, Purdue University
  • Chris Williams, InTrans, Iowa State University
  • Michael Pinard, African Community Access Program
Moderated by: David Jones, University of California, Davis


Webinar Outline
  1. Simple empirical guide to pavement design of low-volume roads in Indiana
  2. Development of holding strategies for deteriorated low volume roads
  3. New approaches for upgrading gravel roads to a low-volume sealed standard based on the use of dynamic cone penetrometer (DCP)
  4. 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:
  • Use simple empirical methods to assist in the design of low volume roads
  • Understand methods that are less invasive than reconstruction but go beyond pavement maintenance

Registration Information

There is no fee for employees of TRB Sponsors or TRB Sustaining Affiliates who register using their work email address. In addition to employees of TRB sponsor organizations, the following are eligible to receive complimentary webinar registration:
  • TRB and National Academies employees;
  • Chairs of TRB standing committees, sections, or groups;
  • Members of the media;
  • Employees of tribal governments; and
  • Members of Congress or their staff.
Other sites must pay $55 per site. View our pricing page for details.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.


Professional Development Hour Information

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.

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 2016. 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. Certificates of Completion will be issued to individuals who register for and attend the entire webinar session. 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.