Advances in transportation geotechnics : proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics, Nottingham, UK, 25-27 August 2008

Highways provide the arteries of modern society. The interaction of road, rail and other transport infrastructure with the ground is unusually intimate, and thus needs to be well-understood to provide economic and reliable infrastructure for society. Challenges include not only the design of new infrastructure (often on problematic ground), but inc