The purpose of the Road Profile Users’ Group (RPUG) is to serve as a forum for the exchange of information between end-users, data collectors, vendors, construction and design engineers, and researchers who have an interest in road profiles, road roughness/smoothness, pavement surface textures/friction, tire-pavement noise, and safety-related topics.

News and Events

• The RPUG 2024 meeting will be held in Florida, USA. The location and dates are TBA.
• The RPUG 2023 meeting was held near St. Louis in southern Illinois to feature the new Illinois DOT Certification And Research Track (ICART) in May 2023. Click here for archived meeting details!
• The RPUG 2022 Annual Meeting was held from April 25th to 28th, 2022 in Saratoga Springs, New York.  The presentations were posted
• The most recent European Road Profile Users’ Group (ERPUG) conference took place at Macdonald Holyrood Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, from October 12 to 14, 2022