The Team for Smart & Green Transportation Infrastructure at NCMS operates an advanced Pavement Experimentation Station (PES), including a Natural Environment - Automatically Loaded Track (NE-ALT) and a Controlled Environment - Multiaxial Loading Facility (CE-MLF), which can couple the special natural environmental factors of various regions with the complex vehicle load in tests. Laboratories for road materials, infrastructure monitoring and inspection technology, smart sensing and IoT technology, and forensic engineering were established. The PES and the laboratories have formed leading test capability, which greatly supports the team in conducting innovative research in transportation infrastructure area.

Research Areas

1. Service environment and service behavior of transportation infrastructure

2. Sensing technology and smart road

3. Multi-scale simulation of road materials and structure

4. Functional materials development and application

5. Energy harvesting at transportation infrastructure

6. Application of big data and AI technology

7. Resilient road and climate change adaptation

Research Highlights

1. Modeling pavement behavior under multi-physics coupling through the fusion of multi-scale physical testing and simulation.

2. Aggregate blend design method for asphalt mixtures based on load distribution mechanism of packing structures and particle functions.

3. Pavement skid resistance: mechanism, evaluation, design, and rehabilitation.

4. Energy harvesting system and application in transportation infrastructure.

5. Transportation infrastructure behavior monitoring and data interpretation.

6. Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for road infrastructure.

• Professor Yinghao Miao

• Associate Professor Fengyan Sun

• Associate Professor Hailu Yang

• Associate Professor Zhoujing Ye

• Associate Professor Yalin Liu

• Assistant Professor Wentao Wang