Swedish Transport Administration Minnesota Department of Transportation September 28-29, 2015 Minnesota Visit
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Swedish Transport Administration Minnesota Department of Transportation September 28-29, 2015 Minnesota Visit Monday September 28th @MnROAD Research Facility 9:00 Welcome / Introductions Group 9:30 Goals for the next two days Group 9:45 MnROAD overview Worel 10:15 MnROAD Tour (Mainline / Low Volume Road) Worel 12:00 Lunch (Box Lunch) 1:00 Strategy for test section planning, reasoning behind etc Worel / Group NRRA (National Road Research Alliance) Involvement 1:15 Instrumentation and Data Gathering Palek / Group 2:00 Rolling resistance / Noise Izevbekhai 3:00 Break 3:30 MnROAD and NCAT Partnership • Pavement Preservation Johnson • HMA Performance Test Van Deusen 4:25 Minnesota DCT Testing Hanson 4:45 International Cooperation Worel DCT Testing of Norwegian and Swedish HMA samples 5:00 Adjourn Evening On your own Tuesday September 29th @Maplewood Lab Facility 9:00 Welcome / Introductions Engstrom 9:15 Swedish Company/Group Presentations Group (Visit Objectives) Optimized asphalt thickness in road a constructions-project Gudmarsson Test Road Skänninge - Design-Build project Ekblad 10:15 Break 10:45 Maplewood Lab Overview Engstrom 11:00 Maplewood Lab Tour (3 groups) • Binder Lab Tour • Mixture Lab • DCT Testing 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Intelligent Construction Embacher 1:45 Pavement Design (MnDOT and Sweden) Andersen • (12) MnPAVE Tanquest • (13) MnPAVE Inputs Henricks • (14) MnDOT Asphalt Specs Gallistel • Minnesota Experiences with the Design Guide (comments) Dai 3:00 Break 3:15 Minnesota’s Experience with 3D GPR Dai 3:45 Discussion – other topics **Not Presented topics** Swedish experience of TSD-testing (Nilsson) MnDOT GeoGrid Design Process (Siekmeier) 4:00 Swedish Research Priorities Winnerholt Minnesota Research Priorities VanDeusen 5:00 Adjourn Evening All participants, presenters and guides are invited to join a dinner hosted by the “Optimized asphalt thickness in road constructions-project”. MnDOT “Minnesota” Staff Ben Worel [email protected] MnROAD Operations Engineer Tim Andersen [email protected] MnDOT Pavement Design Engineer Dave VanDeusen [email protected] Road Research Manager (acting) Glenn Engstrom [email protected] Director Materials and Road Research Bernard Izevbekhai [email protected] Concrete Research Engineer Allen Gallistel [email protected] MnDOT Laboratory Manager Len Palek [email protected] MnROAD Instrumentation Engineer Rebecca Embacher [email protected] Intelligent Construction Engineer Ed Johnson [email protected] Research Project Engineer Curt Turgeon [email protected] MnDOT Pavement Engineer Chelsea Hanson [email protected] DCT Project Engineer Steve Henrichs [email protected] Project Engineers Bruce Tanquist [email protected] Project Engineers Shongtao Dai [email protected] ME Design Engineer John Siekmeier [email protected] Project Engineer John Garrity [email protected] Bituminous Engineer Nancy Daubenberger [email protected] Director of Engineering Services Swedish Guests Trafikverket Tomas Winnerholt [email protected] Swedish Transport Marcus Larsson [email protected] Administration Jan-Erik Lundmark [email protected] Torsten Nordgren [email protected] Robert Lestander [email protected] Swedavia Pär Andersson [email protected] Per-Ola Möller [email protected] Nynas bitumen Hans Lundkvist [email protected] Pankas A/S Danmark Uffe Mortesen [email protected] Lars Forstén [email protected] Lemminkäinen Group Anders Pettersson [email protected] Jonas Ekblad [email protected] NCC Roads Robert Lundström [email protected] Mats Wendel [email protected] Lennart Holmqvist [email protected] PEAB Asfalt Peter Gustasson [email protected] Anders Gudmarsson [email protected] Sven Sjoegren [email protected] Sandahls Grus Steve Tingström [email protected] & Asfalt AB Patrik Molander [email protected] David Sandahl [email protected] Magnus Pettersson [email protected] Svevia Filippos Kalfas [email protected] Roger Nilsson [email protected] Skanska (Could not attend – Lync Presentation) VTI - The Swedish Safwat Said [email protected] National Road and Transport Research Institute Swedish Transport Administration National Center for Asphalt Technology Visit September 30, 2015 – Travel day October 1, 2015 8:30 am – Welcome and Introductions 9:00 am – NCAT Test Track Overview 10:15 am – Break 10:30 am – Pavement Preservation 11:45 am – Lunch 12:45 PM – Use of RAP in the United States 1:45 PM – Lee County Road 159 Tour 3:15 PM – NCAT Test Track Tour 4:45 PM – End of Day October 2, 2015 8:30 am – Use of Recycled Shingles in Asphalt Mixtures 9:30 am – Warm-Mix Asphalt 10:30 am – Break 10:45 am – Ground Tire Rubber in Asphalt Mixtures 11:45 am – Lunch 12:45 pm – Bond Strength Between Pavement Layers 1:30 pm – Life-Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprint Assessment 2:45 PM – End of Day MnDOT – Swedish Scan Tour September 28-29, 2015 Short description of company’s and short bibliography of attendees to the Swedish scan tour to MnROAD Minneapolis and NCAT Auburn. Trafikverket Swedavia Nynas bitumen Swedish Transport Administration Pankas A/S Danmark Lemminkäinen Group NCC Roads PEAB Asfalt Sandahls Grus & Asfalt AB Svevia Skanska VTI - The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute Trafikverket Swedish Transport Administration The tasks of the transport Administration include in practice that we shall make sure that the transport system works, which is basic precondition for guaranteeing that society will function. The administration creates the prerequisites for ensuring that all transportation and travel is conducted in the best and safest way, regardless of where you live – in addition with due consideration to the environment and health. - The vision for Trafikverket - Everyone shall arrive in a smooth, green and secure manner. - The tasks for Trafikverket is o To be responsible for long-term planning of the traffic system for road and rail transport, shipping and aviation o To be responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of State roads and railways. About 6 300 employees over 150 different occupations. SEK 52 billion in business volume, of which some SEK 25 billion for investments and about 18 billion for operation and, maintenance and traffic control. The remaining SEK 9 billion includes costs for planning process, State join-financing, State subsidies for private roads and support for research and innovation in the transport area. Responsible for 98 500 km of State roads. www.trafikverket.se • Tomas Winnerholt, Ms. Sc. Civ. Eng, team leader Pavement Design and road construction Tomas has been working at the Swedish National Road Administration and Swedish Transport Administration since 1995. He is responsible for the design code for pavements, bearing capacity and frost design, works as a project manager for R&D road technology. He is also involved in BWIM measurements and works with the effects of heavier loads on the Swedish road network. [email protected] • Marcus Larsson M.Sc Road engineering Marcus has worked at the Swedish Road Administration/Transport Administration since 1994, at a road laboratory and with planning asphalt pavement and bearing capacity for roads. Today Marcus works with Road Technology – Asphalt Pavement. He's also head of section for technical specialists at the investments department in the northern part of Sweden. [email protected] • Jan-Erik Lundmark, National Coordinator and Senior Advisor for pavement road maintenance Jan-Erik is a civil engineer at Lulea technical university in Sweden. Jan-Erik has worked in road maintenance for 17 years. Responsibilities include planning and maintaining 80,000km of paved roads, road markings and road network measurements. [email protected] • Torsten Nordgren, Bitumen and pavement expert Torsten has worked with asphalt pavement and bitumen questions full time since beginning of seventies 40 years plus. He has worked as contractor, bitumen supplier and laboratory manager and technical adviser and project manager for research and development of asphalt pavements. [email protected] Swedavia Swedavia owns, operates and develops a network of ten Swedish airports. Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Göteborg Landvetter Airport have the most passengers. The company, which is wholly owned by the Swedish State, was formed in 2010 when airport operations that previously belonged to Luftfartsverket (LFV) were converted into a limited liability company. Swedavia works in an international market that is subject to competition. The company’s role is to create the access Sweden needs to facilitate travel, business and meetings – in Sweden, elsewhere in Europe and around the world. Our customers are passengers, airlines and tenants that lease retail, office or hotel space in Swedavia’s properties. Sweden competes with other airports in its work to attract investments by airlines. Safety, security, a focus on customers and sustainable development are the basis of everything Swedavia does, both in its own operations and in society in general. Operations are run along solid business principles, and the company shall build a business that is sustainable over the long term through development, planning and operational efficiency.