webinars
ARA’s Webinar Wednesday is a series of complimentary interactive webinars where transportation and infrastructure experts share their experience and answer your questions.
Upcoming Webinars
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Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) for In-situ Geotechnical Investigation: Overview and Best Practices
Generative AI in Transportation: Current Applications, Emerging Capabilities, and What Comes Next
Past Webinars Archive
Webinar Recordings
Staged Development of Geotechnical Asset Management Systems
Speaker – Michael Prohaska, P.E.
April 22, 2026 | 12-1 PM EDT
This webinar will explore a practical, scalable roadmap for building a modern geotechnical asset management program that starts with the fundamentals and grows in sophistication over time. It highlights the essential building blocks, such as defining geotechnical asset types, establishing a baseline inventory, standardizing inspection methods, and understanding why consistent data collection is the backbone of successful systems.
Participants will learn how these foundational steps support later advancements like GIS integration, risk based prioritization, and decision support tools that help agencies allocate resources more effectively. The session emphasizes that agencies don’t need to begin with a fully mature system; instead, they can progress through achievable stages that match their staffing, budget, and technical capacity. The webinar also explains how staged development strengthens coordination across maintenance, structures, and IT groups, enabling geotechnical asset management to be integrated into broader asset management frameworks. Attendees will gain insight into how a maturity model guides long term planning and supports continuous improvement, one deliberate stage at a time.
The Future of Data for Pavements, Safety, Operations
Speaker – Bill Vavrik, Ph.D.
March 4, 2026 | 12-1 PM EDT
In this presentation you will learn the history of data collection for infrastructure, safety, and operations; the evolution of improved sensors; the current state of the practice; and the potential future where nearly every vehicle on the road is giving information.
Microbots for Healthcare and Environmental Remediation
Speaker – Louis William Rogowski
December 10, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
This presentation discusses on-going research thrusts for microbotics technology, ARA’s efforts to productize the technology, and where we envision the future of the technology is going.
Understanding and Predicting Performance in Alternate Delivery Projects
Speaker – Mike Harrel
November 19, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
This webinar intends to describe the process we undertake to develop structural pavement designs and predict pavement performance with respect to alternate delivery projects. We will look at the performance of pavements, the timing of treatments and maintenance activities, and the impacts on OPEX/CAPEX cost streams. We will also review differences between design/build and public-private-partnership (P3) project types and how these strategies change.
Traffic Speed Deflection Device (TSDD) Data Quality Assessment and Applications
Speaker – Ali Morovatdar
October 29, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
This webinar provides insights into a practical approach for quality assessment and data interpretation of TSDD data. The session will not only enhance understanding of the unique nature of TSDD measurements but also demonstrate strategies to maximize the potential applications of TSDD data.
Social Engineering for Introverts
Speaker – Dave Back
Sept 24, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
This webinar discusses distinguishing technical problems from people problems, incentivizing desired behaviors, the importance of public speaking, radical transparency, and some bad leadership habits to unlearn.
From Simulation to Mission Execution: How VISE and MPMS Work Together to Enhance Mission Success
Speakers – Robert Belle-Isle and Jeff Hyams
July 16, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
This webinar will explore how ARA’s Mission Planning and Management System (MPMS), combined with our Virtual Integration & Simulation Environment (VISE), enable operators to anticipate threats, coordinate crewed-uncrewed operations, and refine tactics in a virtual environment before real-world deployment.
Developing a Pavement Marking Management System: North Texas Tollway Authority Case Study
Speaker – Leela Sushitha Chinnakotla
JUNE 25, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
This presentation covers ARA’s three-year effort to support the North Texas Tollway Authority in managing pavement markings at the network level. It begins by introducing the basics of pavement marking retroreflectivity testing, followed by the case study.
Expanding the Horizon for Asset Management: TAM Beyond Bridge and Pavement Assets
Speakers – Hannah Silber, Ph.D. and Neil Janes
May 21, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
Our work in this area contextualizes transportation asset management, identifies critical technology and other emerging assets that states are tracking, and provides recommendations on data collection, stakeholders, and areas for future research.
ADA Ramp and Sidewalk Inspections and the NEW ADA Ramp Serviceability Index
Speaker – Phillip Donovan, Ph.D., P.E.
March 12, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
For this Webinar Wednesday, we’re exploring something you might not think about often: sidewalks and ADA ramps—and how we make sure they’re safe, accessible, and well-maintained.
“Accessibility” for All: Section 508 Compliance
Speaker – Lisa Schofield
February 26, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
Whether you have a “requirement” for addressing Section 508 Compliance, or just trying to improve accessibility for all of your end-users, this webinar will show you how the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provide the criteria and techniques to improve “Accessibility” for All.
Army Supply Chain Challenges and New Approaches to Addressing Them
Speaker – COL(R) Marchant Callis
January 29, 2025 | 12-1 PM EDT
The presentation begins by offering participants a richer understanding of the contemporary operating environment while describing why Congressional and Army leaders are focusing more intently on “contested logistics”. The briefer provides a review of the sustainment-related challenges commensurate with this environment, to include a deeper look at supply chain-specific ones. The presentation then offers several insights in terms of how the Army is meeting these challenges through industrial base and supply chain improvements and novel approaches to freight management. We conclude with a quick review of how the Army develops its future warfighting capabilities, to include sustainment ones and others.
Get in Touch
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For more information, or if you would like to receive a past presentation, email ARAWebinars@ara.com.