Accelerated Pavement Testing

Project Description Virginia Department of Transportation’s (VDOT) “accelerated pavement testing” program was launched at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) using their “heavy vehicle stimulator”. The heavy vehicle simulator will run a wheel assembly – which applies a heavily weighted load to a test pavement – back and forth, day and night, for several months […]

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Autobahn A9

Project Description FORTA-FI® was used in two test sections of the Autobahn “A9”, the federally controlled access highway system near Greding, between Munich and Nuremberg. Researchers wanted to test a 5 cm thick application of FORTA-FI® in the deceleration and acceleration lanes – the on and off ramps – of the highway where drivers would […]

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