Achievements and Prospects of Functional Pavement: Materials and Structures

Dear Colleagues,

In order to further promote the development of functional pavement technology, summarize the research results of functional pavement, and determine future development directions, this SCI-indexed journal has launched a Special Issue of carefully selected and invited articles, on the topic of “Achievements and Prospects of Functional Pavement: Materials and Structures”. The following topics are considered to be included in the scope of this journal:

The theme of this conference is "The Achievements and Prospects of Functional Pavement", which is divided into the following topics:

1. Green roads

1) Pavement design and construction technology based on carbon emission

2) Pavement material can be replaced with application technology

3) Low noise, low pollution and other low impact road application technology

2. Safety pavement

1) Design and construction technology of durable drainage pavement

2) New materials and new technologies for road snow removal

3) Evaluation and optimization of anti-skid performance of pavement

3. Intelligent roads

1) Pavement state intelligent monitoring technology

2) Power generation, temperature control, and other functional roads

3) Pavement intelligent management application technology

4. Durable roads

1) New theory and new method of durability pavement structure design

2) Study on decay regularity and prediction model of pavement performance

3) A new design method for high performance asphalt mixture

All the papers will be peered reviewed. This journal is an open access journal and therefore a fee setup by the publisher will be charged which is not related to the guest editors.

Prof. Dr. Jian-long Zheng
Prof. Dr. Zhanping You
Dr. Xueyan Liu
Guest Editors

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