The SUPERPAVE system was developed by the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP). The asphalt research program had three objectives:

• To investigate why some pavements perform well, while others do not.
• To develop tests and specifications for materials that will out-perform and outlast the pavements being constructed today.
• To work with highway agencies and industry to have the new specifications put to use.

After 5 years of intensive research and testing, SHRP introduced the SUPERPAVE system in 1992. The Federal Highway Administration then assumed responsibility for further development and validation of the SUPERPAVE specifications and test procedures and initiated a national program to encourage the adoption of the SUPERPAVE system.

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