January 2012 Newsletter

Message from the Director - Susan Tighe, PhD., PEng

Happy New Year to all, wishing everyone a wonderful 2012!

We are very pleased to be sending this, our fourth CPATT newsletter. We try our best to highlight some of the key on-going initiatives and keep you up-to-date on our activities. We are getting geared up to attend TRB and if you are coming we have a Waterloo Engineering/Transportation Group Hospitality Suite. Please join us at the Washington Marriott, Maryland C on Tuesday January 14th at 6pm.

If you would like to learn more about anything presented in this newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact either Laura Bland at lbland@uwaterloo.ca or myself at sltighe@uwaterloo.ca. We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Susan L. Tighe, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Professor and Canada Research Chair

Recent Projects:

Climate Change Impacts on Pavements - Evaluating designs, maintenance and repair methods for pavements to withstand changing climates (partnered with Environment Canada)

Braking Availability Testing - Build, calibrate and validate a device that can measure braking availability under all conditions. This information will provide aviator with a measure of braking force deceleration if maximum anti-skid braking is applied in their singular aircraft (partnered with Team Eagle Ltd.)

Braking Availability Tester Braking Availabillty tester 2

Measuring Sustainability - Comparing pavement design, construction and maintenance alternatives based on sustainable features including life cycle cost (partnered with Ontario Ministry of Transportation).

Field Sites - Hwy 401, Woodstock - We have an instrumented, perpetual pavement field site on Hwy 401. This is designed for a 50 year life, with only the surface being renewed, which is a sustainable alternative for high volume roads (partnered with Ontario Hot Mix Producers Association, Capital Paving Inc. and Ontario Ministry of Transportation.

sensors 401 sensors 2