Speaker
Description
A robust pavement infrastructure is essential for safeguarding the environment, economy, and society. Autonomous and connected vehicles, including trucks, offer the potential to decrease energy consumption, emissions, and costs, while simultaneously enhancing road safety. Therefore, the future vision for pavements must be comprehensive: ensuring safety, achieving net-zero emissions, maximizing efficiency, and demonstrating durability, all while minimizing disruption to travelers and freight. Future traffic patterns, particularly the introduction of truck platoons and electric freight, present challenges to the performance of flexible pavement. This necessitates the exploration of optimization techniques to transform these challenges into opportunities, which will be discussed in the presentation.
