About This Workshop

This workshop is designed to help civil engineers, designers and technical reviewers develop a practical understanding of design traffic for flexible pavement design. It addresses the common challenges associated with interpreting traffic information and estimating the cumulative pavement damage caused by heavy vehicles, with a clear focus on the engineering fundamentals, design inputs, calculations and decisions required to determine a Design Equivalent Standard Axle, or DESA, value (also referred to as Design Traffic). Through concise lessons, worked examples and practical activities, participants will learn how to: • Understand how heavy vehicle loading affects pavement performance • Identify and classify common heavy vehicle axle group configurations • Select an appropriate design period, design lane and traffic distribution factors • Convert traffic volumes into heavy vehicle loading • Account for traffic growth over the pavement design life • Calculate a DESA value for use in flexible pavement thickness design • Identify common traffic assumptions, uncertainties and potential design risks • Complete and review design traffic calculations with greater efficiency • Make more informed and defensible technical decisions The workshop is structured to move beyond generic theory and provide a practical process that can be applied directly to day-to-day engineering work and project delivery. Contact us to book your preferred date and time for this workshop.