AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design no longer has to be installed on a state DOT server and managed by a state DOT’s information technology department,” he said. “Pavement 3.0 is a cloud-based software package, meaning that if you have a license to use the software, you can visit our website and log in to use it. “What makes Pavement 3.0 so special is that it is a web-based version,” explained Keith Platte, director of AASHTOWare. It calculates pavement responses ( such as stresses, strains, and deflections) based on traffic, climate, and materials parameters to predict the progression of key pavement distresses and smoothness loss over time for asphalt concrete and Portland cement concrete pavements. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently issued AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design 3.0, the latest version of its core pavement design software platform.ĪASHTOWare – which offers a suite of transportation software products delivered through a collaborative business model with state departments of transportation across the country – upgraded its pavement design package to make it easier to use as well as offer improve design specification protections.ĪASHTOWare Pavement ME Design is a software tool designed to support the day-to-day operations of public and private pavement design engineers.
