Convened by TRB, the Conference on Advancing Additive Manufacturing and Construction in Transportation will be held November 7-8, 2024 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. The AM process and AC applications are linked by 3D printing technical concepts. This global forum will identify future transportation research needs by providing an idea of what is possible based on how the technology is being used now.
Participants will better understand how increased use of AM can affect logistics, supply chains, movement of goods, and related fields. In addition, conference attendees will explore research into AC that is used in large-scale mobile AM (i.e., gantries, extruded structures, forms, molds and systems). Attendees will include researchers from federal and state public governmental agencies, universities and colleges, non-governmental organizations, as well as private contractors and consultants.
Speakers and panelists will organize at least two tracks focusing on overarching issues to help decision makers and transportation officials prepare for expanded AC and AM adoption. In 2019, an earlier conference held in Washington, D.C. examined the state-of-the-art and explored some of the first connections between the technology and transportation.
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