• The average driver in metropolitan traffic spends 61 hours per year stuck in traffic.
  
  
•  Traffic congestion is costing the American public about $65 billion per year.

 

One significant source of congestion is roadway construction, which accounts for 10% of all road-user delays. Road construction is necessary to keep up with the increasing demands of road-users, but there are ways to reduce delays by simply reducing the time of construction.

 

Placing (constructing) a concrete pavement takes only about 1/3 the time it takes to place a comparable flexible (asphalt) pavement. The reason? A flexible pavement must be placed in multiple layers and repeatedly compacted, while concrete pavements can be placed in one layer. Fresh concrete is typically transported to work zones in concrete trucks. The concrete is then fed directly to a slipform paver, which places a continuous pavement at the specified thickness.