Gerardo W. Flintsch
Gerardo W. Flintsch
301-K Patton Hall
Blacksburg, VA, USA 24061
Mail Code: (0105)
Program Area : Transportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering
Professional Registration : PE in Arizona, Uruguay, Spain
Biography
Gerardo Flintsch, PhD, PE is The Dan Pletta Endowed Professor in the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and directs the Center for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Dr. Flintsch has been the PI or Co-PI for research projects totaling more than $49 million in the United States and overseas. Among other projects, he currently directs three national pooled-funds focused on enhancing asset management decision by using network-level structural assessment, continuously measured pavement frictional properties, and emerging data collecting technologies. Flintsch has held leadership position on several technical committees -- including chairing the World Road Association (PIARC) technical committee on Asset Management, ASCE committee on Infrastructure Systems; and TRB committees on General Pavements Design and Pavement Condition Evaluation
Areas of Interest
• Infrastructure sustainability and resiliency
• Asset management
• Vehicle-road interaction
• Pavement engineering and management
• Transportation safety
- 1996, Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- 1991, M.S., Civil Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- 1987, Civil Engineer, Specialization: Transportation, Universidad Mayor, Montevideo, Uruguay
- 1985, Bachelor of Basic Sciences in Engineering, Universidad Mayor, Montevideo, Uruguay
- 1997 – pr. Dan Pletta Professor, The Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor)
- 2005 – pr. Director, Center for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, VTTI
- 1986 - 92 Pavement Evaluation Engineer, Ministry of Transportation and Public Works of Uruguay
- 1991 - 97 Research Associate, Arizona DOT & Arizona State University (ASU)
- 2024 Wilbur S. Smith Award, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), Transportation and Development Institute
- 2023 Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
- 2019 Arch T. Colwell Merit Award, best paper in the SAE Intl. Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems
- 2019, 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, Virginia Tech College of Engineering
- 2013 Jack H. Dillard Award Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research best report
- 2007 Appointed member of the National Academy of Engineering of Uruguay
- 1991 International Road Federation Fellow
- 1989 Ibero-American Cooperation Institute Scholarship
- CEE 2104: Introduction to the Construction Engineering & Management Profession
- CEE 3684: CEE Materials
- CEE 4554: Natural Disaster Mitigation and Recovery
- CEE 4634: Infrastructure Condition Assessment
- CEE 4664: Pavement Design
- CEE 5674: Advanced Pavement Design
- CEE 5684: Rehabilitation of Transportation Structures
- CEE 5754: Pavement and Bridge Infrastructure Management Systems
- CEE 5764: Asphalt Technology
- Pavement Structural Evaluation with Traffic Speed Deflection Devices [TPF-5(385) TPF-5(518)], 26+ DOTs and FHWA, 2018-28, $12,000,000+
- Pavement Surface Properties Consortiums [TPF-5(141), TPF-5(345), TPF-5(463)], 15 DOTs and FHWA , 2005-25, $4,500,000+.
- Emerging Data Streams for Pavement (Asset) Health Monitoring and Management [TPF-5(513)] 3 DOTs and FHWA, 2023-28, $600,000.
- NCHRP 10-98, Protocols for Network-Level Macrotexture Measurement, The National Academies, 2016-19, $500,000.
- Continuous Pavement Friction Measurement and Pavement Friction Management for Safety, FHWA, 2020-22, $626,600.
- Tire-Road Friction Estimation using Probe Vehicles, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2014-17, 300,000.
- Smart Road Pavement Research, Flexible Pavement Instrumentation and Evaluation, Virginia Department of Transportation, 1999-2003, $1,000,000+.
- Flintsch, G., de León Izeppi, E., McCarthy, R., Katicha, S., Persaud, B., Guo, F., Medina, A., and Tobias, P. (2023). Characterizing Road Safety Performance Using Pavement Friction, FHWA-SA-23-006, US. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
- Flintsch, de León, Bongioanni, Katicha, Meager, Fernando, Perera, McGhee, (2021) Protocols for Network-Level Macrotexture Measurement Draft Final Report, National Cooperative High-way Research Program Report 964, Washington, DC.
- Dehghani, M., Flintsch, G.W., and McNeil, S., (2014) "Impact of Road Conditions and Disruption Uncertainties on Network Vulnerability." Journal of Infrastructure Systems, vol. 20(3).
- Flintsch, G.W., De Leon E., McGhee, K.K., and Al-Qadi, I.L., “Pavement Macrotexture Measurement and Application.” Paper #03-3436, 82th Annual TRB Meeting, to be published in the Journal of the Transportation Research Board, January 12-15, 2002, Washington, DC.
- Bennett, C.R., Chammoro, A., Chen*, C., de Solminihac, H. and Flintsch, G.W., (2005) Data Collection Technologies for Road Management, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 124 pp
- Flintsch, G.W., Scofield, L., and Zaniewski, J.P., "Network Level Performance of Asphalt Rubber Pavement Treatments in Arizona," Transport Research Board, National Research Council, 1996, Transport Research Record No. 1435, Washington DC, pp. 59-68.