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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) recently introduced a new training course for its Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide or MEPDG, a procedure encapsulated in the association’s AASHTOWare software division.
AASHTOWare offers a suite of transportation software products delivered through a collaborative business model with state departments of transportation across the country.
AASHTO said its new training course aligns with the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design or PMED software program, a next generation pavement design package that builds upon the MEPDG.
First completed in 2004 and upgraded in 2007, the MEPDG was formally adopted by AASHTO as an Interim Guide in 2008. The AASHTOWare PMED serves as an upgrade to the MEPDG software package, the first version of which became available in 2011. Version 3.0 pf the PMED – released in 2022 – is an internet-based application that runs on online servers and does not require a local installation.
While the course does not use AASHTOWare PMED, it does identify when that software could be used by a pavement designer as part of the mechanistic-empirical design process. The new training course explains how the mechanistic-empirical design works, the concepts it is based upon, and how pavement designers can incorporate this process into current design practices.
Participants need an AASHTO account to log into technical training solutions and that this course is free to AASHTO members.
To access this new training course, click here or visit the online AASHTO Store. Information courtesy of AASHTO. Learn more here.