Pavement and Rail Track Engineering

这笔拨款将允许诺丁汉交通工程中心（NTEC），前身为诺丁汉路面工程中心（NCPE），继续在路面和铁路轨道工程方面开展广泛的以研究为主导的倡议。这些是英国经济和生活质量的关键基础设施领域，代表了大约6200亿英镑的总资产价值，每年的支出在60亿英镑左右。在本提案中，特别强调公路资产管理作为一个研究主题的发展，并通过与化学、化学工程、结构力学、材料科学和经济学等领域的多学科研究联系，继续发展物理化学相互作用和可持续建设，以利用这些学科与路面和铁路轨道工程之间的边界研究。

This grant will allow the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC), formerly known as the Nottingham Centre for Pavement Engineering (NCPE), to continue to undertake a wide range of research-led initiatives in pavement and rail track engineering. These are critical infrastructure areas for the UK economy and quality of life and represent a combined asset value of some 620 billion with an annual expenditure in the region of 6 billion.In this proposal, particular emphasis is placed on the development of Highway Asset Management as a research theme and the continued development of Physicochemical Interactions and Sustainable Construction through multidisciplinary research links with areas such as Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Structural Mechanics, Materials Science and Economics to exploit research at the boundaries between these disciplines and pavement and rail track engineering.