COST 351 - WATMOVE Water Movements in Road Pavements and Embankments

WELCOME ....

to our web site which aims to give you information about the COST 351 Action on Water Movements in Road Pavements and Embankments (WATMOVE). The study programme ran from December 2003 to April 2007.

The principal output is the book "Water in Road Structures" published by Springer in 2008. Here is the contents list.

This web-site continues to carry the latest news about and from WATMOVE, material about past and upcoming events, finalised reports and information on how our work was arranged and performed. There is a private page from which members of the Action can access working papers.

There is an Acrobat file which has a short presentation of the Action that you can view or download. There's also a one page Advertisement that you can dowload and print. Please pass it to your friends!

If you missed WIP05 - A one day conference in Madrid, 27th October, 2005 on "Water in Pavements", then please click on the link for details. Some of the papers will be published in a special issue of a key journal. A briefer series of presentations, more directly derived from the work of the Action are available Here - these are presentations made at a half day conference, held in Constantza, Romania on 12th September, 2006.

There was a final workshop session on June 20th 2007 as part of the International Conference on Advanced Characterisation of Pavement and Soil Engineering Materials , 20-22 June 2007 in Athens, Greece and a presentation at the 2008 TRA meeting in Ljubljana on April 23rd. Presentations are available via one of the "Water in Pavement" links below.

I hope you will find this page interesting and of use in your work. If you have comments to the material on these pages, please contact me.

Mr. Andrew Dawson
Chairman of COST 351 - WATMOVE

The main objective of the Action is to increase the knowledge required for improving the highway performance and minimising the leaching of contaminants from roads and traffic. Improvement of pavement performance will lead to less road closures, better use of the road network, longer service life and more effective transportation of goods and people.

The aim of the Action can further be divided into the following four secondary objectives:

	to identify water movement and moisture conditions in unbound pavement layers and subgrade for different types of road constructions in various climatic conditions,
	to investigate the relationship between the mechanical behaviour of materials/soils and their hydraulic conductivity and moisture condition,
	to implement finite element modelling based on laboratory analysis and field studies in order to simulate water movement and moisture conditions in road construction,
	to identify, investigate and control contaminants leaching from soils, natural aggregates and by-products.

At present the following information is available:

	COST 351 - WATMOVE Information		Links to related sites
	Newsletter#1 Spring/Summer 2005 - available in compressed pdf version (360kB) or in printer-quality version (1.8MB)		Alternative Practices for Highway Stormwater Management Webcast
	Newsletter#2 Summer 2006 - available in compressed pdf version (180kB) or in printer-quality version (1.2MB)
	Newsletter#3 Summer 2007 - available in compressed pdf version (454kB) or in printer-quality version (1.8MB)
	One page Advertisement for you to use.
	REPORTS		QUESTIONNAIRES
	The Technical Annex which defines the work of the Action.		A Questionnaire on Pavement Drainage (replies are no longer accepted).
	The first year report (2004).		A Summary of replies to the questionnaire on Drainage aspects, as received by June 2006
	The second year report (2005).		A Questionnaire on Environmental Aspects (replies are no longer accepted).
	The third year report (2006).		A Summary of replies to the questionnaire on Environmental Aspects, as received by May 2006
	The Summary Final Report (Brochure) (June 2007). This is also available in a high-definition format suitable for printing
	Presentations		Information
	Water in Pavements = WIP05 - a one day conference, Madrid, held on 27th October, 2005.		A flyer for the book "Water in Road Structures" published in 2008.
	Water in Pavements - presentations made at a half day conference, held in Constantza, Romania on 12th September, 2006.		A link to the publisher's page for the book "Water in Road Structures" now published.
	Water in Pavements - presentations made at the final half day conference, held in Athens, Greece on 20th June, 2007.		A one page advertisement for the Action.
	Water in Road Structures - a half day presentation undertaken as part of the Transport Research Arena, held in Ljubjana, Slovenia on 23rd April, 2008.		A short presentation of the Action.
	There are also some pictures of the WATMOVE team 'at work'.

There is also a private page for the members of the Action which allows working papers, etc. to be uploaded and downloaded. It can only be accessed with the appropriate password.

COST351 is an Action of the European Co-operation in Science and Technology Programme, administered by the European Science Foundation. It is part of the Transport and Urban Devevelopment domain. Click Here for further information.

This page is maintained by Andrew Dawson. If you experience any difficulties reading this page please let me know. This page was last updated on 15th April, 2008.