WHRP's goals
- Address the most critical problems by measuring urgency, strategic value of needed research, potential usefulness of findings and ultimate return on investment.
- Develop performance measures that can be used to predict and validate highway quality by establishing performance tests, prediction models, acceptance criteria, construction factors and performance-based specifications.
- Reduce life-cycle costs while improving highway performance and sustainability by investigating promising new design and construction methods.
Accomplishments in WHRP's first 10 years
- More than 60 research projects were completed.
- 28 percent of projects have been implemented.
- WHRP research resulted in numerous specification changes.
- WHRP has provided critical support to the adoption of AASHTO’s Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide.