The Workshop on Pavement Renewal for Urban Freeways--or the Get In, Get Out, Stay Out workshop--influenced the development of the new Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP II), proposed in the surface transportation reauthorizing legislation. SHRP II would receive $95 million over six years to advance research, technology, and methods for infrastructure renewal. The vision of the renewal program under SHRP II is that preservation, rehabilitation, and reconstruction activities on highway infrastructure will be carried out rapidly, with minimal disruption to users and communities, and will result in long-lived facilities. The SHRP II renewal program covers a range of research topics, such as faster in-situ construction, offsite fabrication, inspection and monitoring with sensor technologies, contracting methods, disruption mitigation, customer relations, work zone traffic flow, design and construction of low-maintenance facilities, and preservation methods for high-traffic areas. More details on the renewal program under SHRP II, as well as on the other component programs, are available on the TRB website at www4.TRB.org/trb/newshrp.nsf. (Entire Article)
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