

ISSMGE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT
TC202 - TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION GEOTECHNICS
Date: 2011-05-31
Period covered by this report: October 2009 – May 2011
Prepared by: A. Gomes Correia and Nobuyuki Yoshida
Chair:
A. Gomes Correia
Vice-Chair:
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Secretary:
Nobuyuki Yoshida
Please also fill in the information sheet on page and please
append your Terms of References. (Just refer to the ISSMGE
website if the information can be found there).
http://www.issmge.org/web/page.aspx?refid=6651.
Have you distributed the Terms of Reference
to the TC members?
YES
2.
Are any TC members not responsive?
YES
3.
Is your TC webpage on the ISSMGE website
up to date
?
YES
4.
Please list the conferences and workshops and other activi-
ties you have held or plan to hold.
Reported above and at TC202 web page. More detail about TF
6. 2
nd
International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics
(2
nd
ICTG), Hokkaido, Japan, 10
th
to 12
th
September
Feil!
Hyperkoblingsreferansen er ugyldig.
Organized by Japanese
Geotechnical Society, under the auspices of ISSMGE, with the
support of Geo-Institute of ASCE, TRB, IGS from abroad. Co-
sponsored by twelve Japanese academies and organizations.
(i) Themes:
The major themes of 2
nd
ICTG are as follows:
1. Geotechnics for Pavement, Rail Track and Airfield
2. Geomaterial, including Nontraditional Materials
3. Asphalt Mixtures and Hydraulically-bound Materials
4. Earthworks for Transportation Facilities
5. Application of Geosynthetics
6. Laboratory Testing and In-situ Testing
7. Modelling and Numerical Simulations
8. Design, Construction and Maintenance
9. Performance Evaluation and Quality Control
10. Sustainability of Management and Rehabilitation
11. Risk Assessment and Environmental Issues
Please see the webpage at
http://congress.coop.hokudai.ac.jp/tc202conference/(ii) Start with a named lecture in to honour an eminent
geotechnical engineer in the TC202 field: 2
nd
ICTG Local
Organizing Committee has not discussed this assignment
so far.
(iii) Workshops before or after the Conference: The following
three workshops are planned;
1.Intelligent Compaction Technologies in cooperation
with TF3.
2.Challenges for Transportation Geotechnics in Extreme
Climates in cooperation with TC216 Frost Geotechnics.
3.Geotechnical Challenges in Rail Track and its Transi-
tional Zones in cooperation with TF4.
The workshops will be held at the day before the 2
nd
ICTG (September 9, 2012), which is free of charge to
conference participants.
(iv) Proceedings of 2
nd
ICTG and special issue of Soils and
Foundations JGS Journal:
1.The conference proceedings with CDROM or USB will
be published on September, 2012. The conference pro-
ceedings include all the accepted papers, subjected to
the peer reviewing process of local organizing commit-
tee.
2.
A limited number of selected papers can be considered
for publications in the special issue of Soils and Foun-
dations, subjected to the usual peer-reviewing process
set out by the JGS editorial committee. The special
issue will be published on June, 2013.
5.
Please list the work ask(s) you assigned to TC members and
comment on progress and future plans. Include, where rele-
vant, target deadline and deliverable(s)
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