Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) Working Group
Objective
The goal of this pooled fund is to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information on accelerated pavement testing facilities. The main objective is to focus discussions, studies and knowledge exchange on the entire operation process, including experimental design, sensor selection and installation, data collection and analysis, monitoring processes, and database documentation and data storage with best data management practices, and disseminate research results and the road map for APT research.
Proposed tasks
Task 1: International Pavement Conference
Past APT Conferences (will develop links to the publications soon)
- 1999 Reno, NV (Westrack)
- 2004 Minneapolis, MN (MnROAD)
- 2008 Madrid, Spain (Cedex Test Track)
- 2012 Davis, California (Pavement Research Center APT)
- 2016 Costa Rica
- 2020 France
- 2025 NCAT - TRB AKP40 - Webinar & Conference
Task 2: 18 month operations meeting (in-person)
Task 3: Online working meetings
Task 4: Monthly APT online facility meetings
2026 Schedule
Contact Jason Nelson, nelsoja@auburn.edu for links and dates/times)
- January - TRB
- Feb – None
- March – None
- April – None
- May – FHWA
- June – MnROAD
- July –NCAT
- August – Open
- September – Pierre, Eiffel
- October – Stephanus Louw, sjlouw@ucdavis.edu
- November – Rowan
- December – Open
Past APT Webinar Archiive
Task 5: APT instrumentation and monitoring standardization
Task 6: APT data standards
Task 7: National APT database
Task 8: APT website (test tracks and LVS)
Project team
Email the Project Team
Technical Liaison: Ben Worel, MnDOT, ben.worel@state.mn.us
Technical Advisory Panel (TAP): Contact us to join this TAP
- Florida
- Ohhoon Kwon
- Chris Cotter
- FHWA
- Jack Youtcheff
- Jennifer Aponte
- Minnesota
- Ben Worel
- Michael Vrtis
- Alabama
- Scott George
- Texas
- Mahmoud Enad