Slides and recordings of keynote speeches (only slides) and presentations can be downloaded now.
Conference program is now available.
2021 International Conference on Resource Sustainability - Sustainable Pavement Technologies (icRS SPT 2021)
May 26-27, 2021, All Virtual
Focus on Conservation of Resources and Emphasis on Recyclability
Keynote Speakers
- Shri. Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways, India
- Dr. Jorge Sousa, President, Consulpav International, Portugal
- Prof. Dr. Kamil Kaloush, Arizona State University, USA
- Prof. Dr. Silvia Caro Spinel, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- Prof. Dr. James W. Maina, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Prof. Dr. A. Veeraragavan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
icRS SPT 2021 is of special prominence for transportation engineers, roadway designers and practitioners, highway contractors, pavement technologists, fundamental researchers, material scientists, forensic experts, doctoral and graduate students, several stakeholders, policy makers, highway agencies, and many others. The event aims to provide excellent opportunities to embrace the different aspects of roadway technology with an emphasis on conservation of resources and recyclability of materials in order to create sustainable transportation infrastructure leading to low-impact development. icRS SPT 2021 will serve as a forum that will solicit ideas for discussion from global leaders of developed and emerging economies.
The papers for this international conference will focus on various advances that have taken place in pavement technologies worldwide. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
- Development of new materials for use in different pavement systems such as rubber, polymer, fibers, fly ash, silica fume, steel slag, graphene, and nanomaterials
- Unconventional modified pavements such as asphalt-rubber, polymer composites, fiber-reinforced, permeable concrete, fiber-reinforced concrete, rubber-modified concrete, mixtures with construction and demolition wastes, recycled asphalt pavements, and recycled concrete aggregates
- Advances in test techniques for pavement materials characterization
- Sustainable practices of soil and base stabilization
- Low volume roads designs and analyses
- Setting up of novel procedures to characterize pavements and materials
- Modification on current standard test methods
- Simulation and modeling of pavement characteristics
- Laboratory – field test techniques for pavement design and analyses
- Construction of field demonstration roadway trial test sections
- Accelerated pavement test facility designs and use
- Forensic evaluation of asphalt and concrete pavement systems
- Review articles and case studies on emerging pavement materials
- PPP, EPC, and other models of roadway construction
- Evaluation of pavement functional performance, including but not limited to: rolling resistance, tire / pavement noise, and tire wear emissions
- Pavement Asset Management Systems with advanced analytical techniques such as deep learning and image processing
- Environmental impact assessment and lifecycle assessment of roadway systems
- Lifecycle analyses of sustainable pavement systems
- Pavements and urban climatology
- Impacts of pavement systems on global climate change
- Utilization of waste materials in pavement systems

Important Dates
November 1March 1, 2021: Deadline for submitting abstracts or updating previously submitted abstracts- April 1, 2021: Acceptance notification
- May 1, 2021: Deadline for early-bird registration
- May 26-27, 2021: Conference