Managing Partner
RoadRunner Consulting US
Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
Dr. Regis Carvalho is one of the founding partners and managing director of RoadRunner - US Operations. During his 25+-year career, Dr. Carvalho became an expert in pavement engineering and applied software development. His background includes pavement design, evaluation (nondestructive testing, profiling, ground penetrating radar, automated and manual distress surveys, and laboratory testing) and backcalculation, pavement research (asphalt materials, mechanistic-empirical design procedures, material characterization and constitutive modeling), pavement management systems and software development. Dr. Carvalho worked extensively investigating the performance of highway pavements and their structural behavior through several FHWA research projects. Dr. Carvalho has implemented/updated several Pavement Management programs, in cities like Alexandria/VA, Indianapolis/IN, Bismarck/ND, Recife/Brazil, and several airports and air force bases. Dr. Carvalho worked with JMT on the implementation and update of Prince George’s County/MD pavement management program, which covered more than two thousand miles of roads. Dr. Carvalho developed a training program for PAVER implementation, in which agency staff are trained and prepare to use PAVER, including updating the database and customizing its features completely and independently.
Dr. Carvalho has worked on more than 150 pavement analysis and design contracts, several pavement management system developments and implementations and research projects. He has authored over 15 journal and conference articles, circulars and research reports in the past 6 years. Dr. Carvalho served as member at two committees at the Transportation Research Board in the United States (AKP40 – Standing Committee on Pavement Structural Testing and Evaluation, and AKP30 – Standing Committee on Flexible Pavement Design). Since 2015, Dr. Carvalho is the technical consultant and principal research investigator for the Accelerated Pavement Testing laboratory at FHWA’s Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center.
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Sampling Sensitivity Analysis on the Pavement Condition Index for Airport Maintenance Strategies
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM MT
The Use of Balanced Mix Design Process With High Polymer Modified Asphalt at a Brazilian Airport
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM MT