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TERRA co-chair André Clover welcomes MnROAD research conference attendees. MnDOT's John Pantelis describes a texture meter to a MnROAD tour group. A MnROAD tour group examines a composite pavement test slab near the farm loop. A MnROAD tour participant examines a composite pavement test slab core sample. A MnROAD tour participant examines a composite pavement test slab cross-section. MnROAD engineer Tim Clyne leads a tour group near the farm loop. MnROAD engineer Tim Clyne leads a tour group on the low-volume road (LVR).

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Events

TERRA Innovation Series

MnROAD Research Conference

Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Northland Inn
7025 Northland Drive North
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55428

About the Event

This one-day research conference highlighted the results of several pooled-fund and other research studies begun during MnROAD's Phase Two Initiative. The event provided about 160 attendees with research findings on pavement materials, design, construction, and rehabilitation that are ready to be implemented in Minnesota and around the country. Attendees from at least 13 states and Norway included state DOT engineers and technicians, city and county engineers, Federal Highway Administration officials, Norwegian Public Roads Administration representatives, maintenance superintendents, managers, design engineers, consulting engineers, contractors, and others interested in pavement research and implementation.

The conference emphasized how lessons learned from research at MnROAD have been and can be implemented to build better, more cost-effective pavements. Sessions focused on recycled materials, pavement rehabilitation, preventative maintenance, long-life pavements, surface characteristics, and other pavement innovations.

The conference included a bus tour to MnROAD with stops at several TERRA-initiated project locations. Featured test sections on the mainline, the low-volume road, and the farm loop to view projects studying full-depth reclamation, innovative diamond grinding of road surfaces, porous and pervious pavements, composite pavements, the effects of farm implements on low-volume roads, and other areas. In addition, MnDOT researchers demonstrated pavement-monitoring equipment.

Read more about the MnROAD research conference

Event Presentations

MnROAD Lessons Learned and Future Initiatives

  • Ben Worel, Tim Clyne, Tom Burnham, Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT)
    View presentation (5.7 MB PDF)

Asphalt Materials and Performance Testing

Concrete and Aggregate Initiatives

Construction Innovations

Porous and Pervious Pavements

Pooled-Fund Studies: Asphalt and Base Materials

Pooled-Fund Studies: Pavement Design and Rehabilitation

Download the final agenda (121 KB PDF)

More Information

For more information about this or other TERRA Innovation Series events, please contact Stephanie Malinoff, malinoff@umn.edu, 612-624-8398.

Sponsors

This event is hosted by TERRA, in cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota Local Road Research Board.