Speakers stress need for innovation
The 2009 recipient of the Gerald Rohrbach Minnesota Pavement
Conference Award is Mark Maloney (right), the public works director/
city engineer of Shoreview. Presenting the award is 2008 recipient Doug
Schwartz.
Speakers at the 13th Annual Minnesota Pavement Conference, held February 12 in St. Paul, shared their innovative ideas to help meet today’s transportation challenges. Topics included transportation investment strategies, risk analysis, and trends in the concrete and asphalt industries. A summary document of the conference will be online at www.mnltap.umn.edu.
New this year, the conference was sponsored by the Transportation Engineering and Road Research Alliance (TERRA). Cosponsors were the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Minnesota LTAP, the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota City Engineers Association, Minnesota County Engineers Association, Minnesota Street Superintendents Association, Minnesota Chapter of the American Public Works Association, State Aid for Local Transportation at Mn/DOT, Minnesota Local Road Research Board, and the Pavement Research Institute at the U of M. It was hosted by the Center for Transportation Studies (which houses Minnesota LTAP) at the U of M.