The Airport Pavement Structural Design System (APSDS) is a powerful, user-friendly, Windows-based pavement design package for Airports and Heavy Industrial Pavements such as intermodal container terminal pavements.

APR Consultants, Inc. provides the airport pavement industry with a wide variety of tools to ensure pavement smoothness and longer life. Through simulation software and pavement profile measuring hardware, APR Consultants can provide the technology and expertise to assess pavement ride quality, therefore extending pavement life, minimizing rehabilitation and reducing the risk of damage to aircraft.

The Federal Aviation Administration's Tech Center, Pavement Technology projects in this area focus on several aspects of airport pavements, including the National Pavement Test Machine, LEDFAA - the new FAA standard for designs of airport pavements intended to serve the Boeing 777 airplane, and the Airport Pavement Database of FAA's Instrumented Runway Project at the Denver International Airport.

Center of Excellence for Airport Pavement Research The joint University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/ Northwestern University Center of Excellence supported by the Federal Aviation Administration has been set up to develop pavement design for next generation aircraft. Description of projects in airport pavement technology, including modeling of airport pavement structures, constitutive behavior of pavement materials, material characterizations, and advancement in the art of pavement evaluation.

Airfields and Pavements Division of the US Army Corps of Engineers: the Department of Defense's lead pavements research facility.

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