DIPA2011

A one day conference addressing topical issues surrounding pavement assessment
12 July 2011

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Outline Agenda

Sesssion 1

Chairman's Introduction
Ro Cartwright, Independent Consultant, Linhay Consultancy
Introduction to the morning session and brief update on the SCANNER accreditation process.

Never waste a good crisis
Matthew Lugg, Director of Environment & Transport for Leicestershire CC
The dust has settled on the comprehensive spending review and local authorities face challenging capital and revenue budget reductions. Now is the time to ensure we make the best use of our limited resources. The Highway Maintenance Efficiency Programme launched in April will help local authorities drive through innovation, best practice and efficiencies. The £200m made available to tackle the 'potholes' created by recent winters is welcomed but questions need to be asked about the level of winter damage: are the products we have been using durable and resilient enough? are we doing the basics right, checking workmanship, sealing our roads and avoiding the frost penetrating the surface in the first place? We must ensure we learn the lessons.

Lifecycle planning and valuation for highways assets
Andy Pickett, Director, Appia Infrastructure Solutions and Harry Godwin, Senior Engineer, Leicestershire County Council
An update on the work of HAMFIG and other groups supporting local authorities. Examples to show how an asset management planning approach provides better financial information for reporting and management.

Blackpool HAMP project, life after PMS - integrating all road data into a single transparent application to help the user
Steve Birdsall, Managing Director, Gaist Ltd
An overview of the innovative approach to asset management taken in Blackpool and how it was rewarded in the Element 2 round of funding. The web-based geographic information platform developed in Blackpool to help highways asset managers has rapidly evolved into a system used by other agencies, such as the emergency services and by other UK local authorities.

CALTRANS - meeting the challenge, delivering the benefits
William Throssel, Technical Manager, Fugro Aperio
Budgets are tight the world over - even in California. However, in these straitened times California Department of Transport (CALTRANS) have made a continued commitment to invest in the management of their roads, starting with new fixed referencing of the 81,000 km state network based on common construction. The approach pushes the limits of the technologies involved, so what is the rationale behind the investment, what are the challenges in delivering a project of this size and how have they been resolved?

Sesssion 2

Chairman's introduction
Ramesh Sinhal, Head of Pavements, Highway Agency
Introduction to the afternoon session.

Progress on Traffic Speed Deflectometer
Roger Fairclough, Highways Agency
A review of the evolving processes applied to Traffic Speed Deflectometer survey data. An update on the current status of the Highways Agency's survey programme.

A review of current research into failure of thin surfacing
Donald Burton, Pavement Adviser, Highways Agency
A review of the current knowledge of thin surfacing, including expected life spans, modes of failure, and factors that contribute to durability. An overview of the ongoing research that the HA is conducting to predict the remaining life in a thin surface and a summary of the advice the HA will be issuing to its maintaining agents.

New research into pavement condition and driver reaction
Omar Smadi, RIMOS Director and Research Scientist, Center for Transportation Research and Education, Iowa State University
An overview of the SHRP2 naturalistic driving study (NDS) focusing on the relationship between driver, driver behaviour, and roadway information including condition. The presentation will cover the NDS data collected covering sensor and camera data, as well as the collection of roadway information. The presentation will cover the process of selecting key roadway data elements, data collection, evaluation of data collection vendors and database management.

Risk and liability: road safety and pavement condition
Alex Luck, Principal, A Luck Associates
Road pavement condition is one of the factors regularly investigated by police after a fatal or life-threatening collision. An overview of the police investigation process, with particular regard to pavement condition, and the implications for highway managers with responsibility for this asset.

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