The composition of the asphalt mixture making up a road can determine how safe it is for cars to drive on. Tarik Seker/iStock via Getty Images Plus More than 90% of paved roads in the U.S. are made of ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Pavement recycling presents opportunities for cost reduction and environmental sustainability, according to the principal research ...

Cold-in-place recycling involving both a Wirtgen 3800 CR (with 12.5-ft. cutter) and a 2200 CR (with 8-ft. cutter) was the “green” choice for rebuilding a two-lane state highway in a mountainous, ...

Every contractor who owns construction machinery knows it's important to generate as many profitable hours as possible out of any given piece of equipment. So when Lindsey Contractors Inc. of Waco, TX ...

The market for recycled asphalt pavement is often close at hand. Very often, in fact, it is within a few feet of the surface being torn up. Portable and mobile asphalt recycling systems have helped ...

In many regions across the United States, highway and airport runway reconstruction projects are popping up like wildflowers. With more planned, the outlook for recycling concrete and asphalt – the ...

The Town of Lexington, Massachusetts, has been honored with FP2's James B. Sorenson Award for Excellence in Pavement Preservation for 2020. The award was presented in October 2020 at the Lexington ...

(THE CONVERSATION) More than 90% of paved roads in the U.S. are made of asphalt, which is constructed with nonrenewable materials such as petroleum. One way to make paving more sustainable is to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jingtao Zhong, University of Tennessee and Baoshan Huang, University of Tennessee (THE ...