2026 ACECNJ Fall Conference

In the past decade, CREATES has made a significant impact regionally and nationally in conducting projects funded by federal, state and industry.  It has attracted close to $70million dollars and graduated annually 60 undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on experience in transportation engineering.

Learning Objective:
The participants will have a clear understanding of the impact CREATES is having on the state and nation. The participants will also be introduced to some of the research work conducted at CREATES.

Audience:
CREATES at Rowan University is home to a state-of the-art accelerated pavement testing facility featuring a Heavy Vehicle Simulator (HVS) capable of replicating up to 20 years of traffic loading in just a few months, enabling rapid evaluation of innovative transportation solutions. This session is intended for transportation agencies, engineers, researchers, consultants, contractors, and industry partners interested in advancing resilient, sustainable, and data-driven transportation infrastructure. It highlights CREATES' research, education, workforce development, and technology transfer activities across innovative construction materials, pavement engineering, pavement preservation, asset management, transportation safety and mobility, bridge engineering, geotechnical engineering, and additive manufacturing for concrete infrastructure. The session will showcase CREATES' expanding capabilities in artificial intelligence, digital twins, pavement management systems, and infrastructure sensing, demonstrating how emerging digital technologies are supporting performance-based decision-making, predictive maintenance, and the next generation of smart transportation infrastructure. With its unique capabilities, and broad portfolio can be a great resource to engineering companies to New Jersey, this presentation will serve as an introduction of these capabilities and how we can collaborate that is mutually beneficial