RPUG 2025 Conference

The 2025 Annual Road Profile Users’ Group (RPUG) conference will be held in Dallas, TX from April 28 – May 1, 2025.

The theme for the 2025 RPUG conference is “Saddle Up!”

Quick Links

Navigator Links:

Travel-Related Links:

Workshop Links:

  • ProVAL Workshop (1PM to 5PM, Monday, April 28) is open to all RPUG attendees
  • ProVAL workshop sign-ups – Use the RPUG Contact Me form and enter your name, email, and “ProVAL workshop 2025” in the message body.

Who Should Attend

  • Equipment Operators & Vendors
  • Pavement Management Engineers
  • Construction & Design Engineers
  • Researchers
  • Federal, State & Local Gov. Agencies
  • Paving Contractors
  • Data Collectors
  • Universities
  • Equipment Manufacturers
  • Consultants
  • Tire Industry Professionals

Call for Presentations

RPUG encourages you to present on the latest-&-pertinent topics for roadway and highway pavement Surface characteristics (PSC) as follows:

  • 3D Pavement Surface Measurement Technology/Certification and Automated Pavement Distress Identification and Reporting
  • Profile Data Collection Standards and Certification
  • Impact of Updated Ride Specifications on Construction Practices and Incentive/Disincentive Programs
  • Influence of Surface Characteristics on Rolling Resistance, Vehicle Emission, and Tire Wear
  • Network Pavement Surface Measurements
  • Pavement Roughness and Ride Comfort
  • Pavement Surface Characteristics Data Quality Management
  • Pavement Surface Texture Measurement and Analysis
  • Real-time Surface Properties Measurement during Construction
  • Tire-Pavement Friction/Noise Measurement and Analysis
  • Updates to PSC Equipment

Please submit a presentation abstract of 300 words or less in a one-page MS word document via the RPUG contact page .

Important Dates

  • December 19th, 2024 – Call for Presentation Abstracts
  • February 3rd, 2025 – Deadline for submitting abstracts of presentations
  • February 28th, 2025 – Notification of accepted titles/abstracts for presentations
  • April 4th, 2025 – Deadline for the early-bird registration
  • April 4th, 2025 – Deadline for the early-bird hotel reservation at the conference rates
  • April 23rd, 2025 – Deadline for submission of presentations (including visual aids) & bios
  • April 28th – May 1st, 2025 – RPUG conference

Hotel Reservation

The 2025 meeting will be hosted at the Embassy Suites Convention Center Hotel in Denton, TX.  More Hotel info Here

Early bird hotel reservation at the group rate is available here until April 4, 2025.

Ground Transportation

There are several options for travel from the Dallas Airports to our meeting in Denton (Dallas suburb). Most users have elected to use Uber, Lyft or Taxi.  Public Transit buses also make this trip.

Sponsorship

RPUG is looking for critical sponsors to contribute again and help make this year’s event a success! Click Here to learn more about how you could help. 

 

Registration Fees

A registration fee of USD $475 is required. A late registration fee of USD $500 may apply if passing the early-bird deadline. Spouse/guest pass is USD $325.

Equipment vendors are invited to attend the meeting to exhibit their products. Exhibitor registration of USD $2,250 includes two participants.

You can register by either:

Invitation Letters and VISA Requirements

If you are traveling from a foreign country to the US, please the US VISA requirements.

Contact us if you need any assistance, such as an official RPUG invitation letter.

Continuing Education (CEU) Credits

We will also offer certificates of continuing education (CEU) credits to RPUG attendees upon request.

RPUG Navigator Program

Returning for 2025 is the RPUG Navigator Program started in recent years and aimed at helping all RPUG meeting attendees feel welcomed and included, and promote a sense of community within the group.

Click here to learn more about the program

Click here to sign up for a RPUG veteran “tour guide” to take advantage of the program, or simply talk to anyone at the meeting with the Navigator logo on their badge or wearing a Navigator lanyard.

Contacts

  • Registration, sponsorship opportunity, and CEU credits: Contact Patte Hahn of the National Center for Pavement Preservation at +1 (517) 432-8220 or email hahnp@egr.msu.edu.
  • Presentation/Moderating Sessions: Email Info@RPUG.org or use the RPUG contact page.