Bio
Scott D. Gibson, P. E.,
Owner, Complete Pavements
Mr. Gibson has been involved in highway and pavement engineering for nearly 40 years. This has involved construction, design, research, and training. For the last 8 years he has been responsible for a 1500 lane mile road network for the RTC (Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County), an MPO with 3 member agencies. He is responsible for developing an $18m annual program of pavement preservation projects, and is directly in charge of a $6m annual preventive maintenance program.
In cooperation with the local agencies he helped develop and implement a program to integrate the local agency pavement management systems to prioritize regional road project selection. This selection is based on condition and need that is blind to jurisdiction and most beneficial to the pavement network as a whole. Implementing pavement preservation concepts he had promoted as an instructor for the National Highway Institute, the average PCI of the regional road network is currently 85: optimal for minimizing cost and maximizing performance life.
In addition to improving network pavement condition, he has leveraged the preservation program to address the RTC’s complete street policy goals. The micro-surfacing program provides a blank palette of opportunity for road diets, bike lanes, shoulder stripes, or lane reductions that create space for other users. This has helped gain program support and opened up funding opportunities as well.
Along with his keen interest in pavement engineering he has an abiding interest in developing safer streets for all users and more walkable neighborhoods for initiatives like the walking school bus his daughter participates in on her safe route to school. The concept of Complete Pavements emerged out of this unusual blend of values: quality communities and quality infrastructure.
REGISTRATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Engineer:
Nevada, License Number 12500
California, License Number 65878
also, Oregon and Utah (inactive)
Certified Instructor for the National Highway Institiute of the FHWA
EDUCATION
BSCE, University of Texas at Austin
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Past President: Nevada Section American Society of Civil Engineers
Past President: Truckee Meadows Branch, American Society of Civil Engineers
Past President, Historic Reno Preservation Society
American Public Works Association
Institute of Transportation Engineers
Project Management Institute
Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
REPRESENTATIVE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
Regional Transportation Commision of Washoe County
• Responsible for pavement management coordination on 1500 lane mile regional road network (high capacity arterials and collectors) owned by local agencies.
• Collaborates on development of $18m annual pavement preservation program of Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, Corrective Maintenance, and Preventive Maintenance programs on regional road network. Dramatically reduced reconstruction backlog through this aggressive program. Current network PCI is approaching 90.
• Project Manager for various street and highway construction projects for both pavement rehabilitaion and capacity improvement.
• Proect Manager overseeing the NEPA EIS process for a $65m intersection improvement project on one of the most congested and highest crash locations in Wahoe County on Nevada DOT highways to secure funding through the FHWA.
Applied Pavement Technology
• Involved in developing Rubberized AC pavement perfomance evaluation program, and participated in the development of a Maintenance Technical Advisory Guide for for CalTrans Flexible Pavement Materials Program, a multimillion dollar statewide effort to address asphalt pavement issues.
• Project Engineer on the Caltrans Flexible Pavement Materials Program.
• Project Engineer on a study for the City of Austin, Texas, evaluating the influence of utility cuts on the remaining life of city streets.
Nichols Consulting Engineers
• Engineer of Record for pavement designs on Salt Lake City’s I-15 project, the 17 mile, $1.5 billion design build project through the center of Salt Lake City, Utah. This involved developing structural pavement for mainlines, ramps and arterials, and integrating the pavement design with other design features such as the 130 bridges, MSE walls, and geo-foam embankments in order to provide 40 years of excellent performance.
• Project Manager for the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), evaluation of Piezoelectric Weigh-In-Motion sensors. This project involved the evaluation of sensors under controlled laboratory and field conditions.
• Agency Coordinator for six western states involved in the Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) project sponsored by the FHWA. This involves maintaining communications with agency representatives, tracking maintenance and rehabilitation activities on test sections in these states and overseeing construction of SPS test sections.
• Project Engineer on construction of LTPP SPS-1 and SPS-9 experiments in Montana. Oversaw and coordinated data collection and materials sampling.
• Project Engineer on the development of data collection and material sampling plans for project “Crumb Rubber Modifiers in Hot Mix Asphalt Concrete.”
• Project Engineer project for the nationwide evaluation of the SPS-3 and SPS-4 maintenance experiments in the LTPP program.
Austin Research Engineers
• World Bank, Nigeria, managed field data collection, and the material sampling and testing on a multi-state highway evaluation project to obtain inputs for the HDM II Highway Design Model used by the World Bank. This pilot project utilized the Pavement Evaluation Unit to evaluate, prioritize rehabilitation levels, and design pavements for six state highway networks in different regions of Nigeria.
TRAINING
• Project Manager for development of the National Highway Institute (NHI) course Managing Construction Workmanship.
• Lead instructor and project manager for delivery of the NHI course Hot Mix Asphalt Production Facilities.
• Instructor for the NHI course HMA Pavement Evaluation and Rehabilitation.
• Instructor for the NHI course PCC Pavement Evaluation and Rehabilitation.
• Instructor for the NHI course Hot Mix Asphalt Construction.
• Project Engineer on the course update and redesign of the NHI course Hot Mix Asphalt Construction.
• Instructor for NHI course Techniques for Pavement Rehabilitation.
• Instructor for NHI course Pavement Distress Identification.
• Instructor for NHI course Preventive Maintennace II: Selecting Projects for Preventive Maintenance.
PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Gibson, Scott D., C. Louis, “Complete Street Opportunities With Preventive Maintenance”. Presentation for Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, Professional Development Seminar, Boulder, CO, Septembr 2013
Hajj, Elie Y., L. Loria, P. Sebaaly, E. Cortez, S.D. Gibson, “Effetive Timing for Two Sequential Applications of Slurry Seal on Asphalt Pavement”. Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 139, May 2013
Gibson, Scott D., C. Louis, “Slurry Seals and Bicycles; a Marriage Made in Heaven?, Complete Street Opportunities With Preventive Maintenance”. Presentation for APWA National Congress, Anaheim, CA, August 2012
APWA National Sustainability Conference, Portland, OR, June 2011.
Gibson, Scott D., J. Amboz, “Integration of Local Agency Pavement Management System Data to Prioritize Regional Road Project Selection”. Transportation Reasearch Board Poster Session, Washington D.C., January 2008
Gibson, Scott D., J. A. Mactutis, N. C. Jackson “Pavement Design Technical Report I-15 Reconstruction”. Prepared for I-15 Desighn Build In Salt Lake City and Sverdrup Deleuw, August 1998.
Gibson, Scott D., D.A.Morian, J. Epps, “The Development and Application of a Condition Index for Use with the LTPP Distress Identification Manual”. Paper presented at the 1998 Transportation Research Board.
Epps, Jon A., S.D.Gibson, M. Tahmorressi, C.W.Smoot, “Performance of Coarse Matrix High Binder Hot-Mix Asphalt Materials in the State of Texas” prepared for the Texas Department of Transportation, September 1997.
Morian, Dennis A., S.D.Gibson. “Maintaining Flexible Pavements — The Long Term Pavement Performance Experiment, SPS-3 5-Year Data Analysis”. U. S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. Contract No, DTFH61-93-C-00060. August 1997.
