ANNOUNCEMENT

 “DAWG” Forum on Pavement Performance Data Analysis

to be held in Athens, Greece on June 22, 2007

during the International Conference on Advanced Characterisation of Pavement

and Soil Engineering Materials

The Transportation Research Board's Data Analysis Working Group (the DAWG) will held a Forum on Pavement Performance Data Analysis in conjunction with the Athens-07 Pavement International Conference on Advanced Characterisation of Pavement and Soil Engineering Materials that will be held in Athens, Greece, on June 20-22, 2007. The DAWG forum is scheduled for Friday 22 June. More details about the exact time will be given with the announcement of the final program of the Conference. Everyone who is planning to attend the Conference is cordially invited to also attend this forum. There will be no fee for DAWG participation for those who will attend the Athens-07 Conference.

The DAWG is an international forum for the discussion of methods of analysis of pavement performance data. Presentations at DAWG forums address the technical interests of professionals engaged in highway research and engineering design, maintenance, and rehabilitation.  Other professionals who would find DAWG forums informative are those who are engaged in collecting, processing, and analyzing pavement performance data and developing insights into pavement behaviour. Presentations focus on work-in-progress concerning new techniques for extracting and analyzing data, and preliminary results of recent applications of these techniques. Topics such as model building, sensitivity analysis, and development of transfer functions linking structural response to distress are especially popular.

The atmosphere at a DAWG forum is informal to encourage presenters to present their current incomplete work and to accept frank questions, comments, and suggestions for improvement.  The agenda is prepared in advance from responses to a call for abstracts.  The call for abstracts is now under way. Anyone interested in briefing the DAWG at this Forum should submit an abstract as soon as possible. Abstract forms are available at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sp/dawg_form.doc

For additional information, contact Dr. A. Robert Raab at: RRaab@nas.edu