A screen capture shows the project type selection modules within PavementDesigner.
Pavement design online Concrete industry groups introduce a free web-based platform.
• Immediate access — The platform brings the industry’s best pavement design programs together into a single website that allows profession- als to design pavements immediately. • Cloud storage/retrieval — Users have the option of creating a user ID and password to save their design work, as well as to retrieve projects using any digital device. • Automatic updates and improvements — The online system is auto- matically updated when new content or details are added. Users will not have to download updated software or patches. PavementDesigner is built on updated versions of ACPA’s StreetPave, AirPave, and WinPAS programs, as well as PCA’s PCAPave program. The portal also includes design guidance, substructure sensitivity, and asphalt design evaluation capabilities. “ACPA was excited to serve as the project leader for PavementDe- signer, working closely with our industry partners and our software designer,” said Eric Ferrebee, EIT, ACPA’s director of Technical Ser- vices. “We are pleased to introduce all in one place the industry’s best design solutions for concrete and cement-based pavement design. “PavementDesigner.org represents a dramatic shift in solutions avail- ability to designers of streets, roads, parking lots, and industrial facili- ties,” he said. “By bringing multiple programs together in one package and eliminating the cost and time to download software, updates, and
Leading cement and concrete organizations unveiled an online pave- ment design tool that they said offers features and benefits never before available to the pavement design community. Primary sponsors are the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA), the Ready Mixed Concrete (RMC) Research & Education Foundation, and the Portland Cement Association (PCA). Additional funding and support came from the RCC Pavement Council. The RMC Research and Education Foundation is affiliated with the National Ready Mixed Concrete As- sociation (NRMCA). The free PavementDesigner (http://pavementdesigner.org) was cre- ated for city, county, and consulting engineers; academia; or anyone involved in design of roadway, industrial, and parking area pavements. According to the sponsors, PavementDesigner improves upon tradi- tional pavement design software programs, and provides the following features: • No cost —The platform is offered completely free of charge, eliminating the expense and burden of ordering software and updates, licenses, etc.
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