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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=665

1.

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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