Zhang and Co-Authors Receive Best Paper Award

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Zhanmin Zhang
Associate Professor

A paper co-authored by Dr. Zhanmin Zhang, and two of his transportation graduate students, Epigmenio Gonzalez and Wenxing Liu, was selected to receive the Best Paper Award by the 8th International Conference on Managing Pavements Assets (ICMPA). An award plaque for their paper "A Methodological Framework for Minimizing the Budget Fluctuations on Highway Maintenance Programs" was presented at the 8th ICMPA held in Santiago, Chile in November 2011.

The ICMPA is designed to focus on issues associated with fulfilling the social, economic, and environmental responsibilities for sustainable, well managed, better roads. The 8th ICMPA was attended by nearly 400 delegates of academia, practitioners, and government officials representing countries from all five continents.