Overview
Research and development (R&D) in highway technology play a crucial role in the advancement, efficiency, and sustainability of transportation infrastructure. RASTA is committed to deliver high quality research to ensure coherence between all elements of innovation across the domain, including entrepreneurship, commercialisation, knowledge transfer, education, community engagement, creative practice and consultancy. RASTA strives to improve its position as a provider of sustainable technological solutions through research excellence in key areas.
Objectives:
- Promote applied research studies, the findings of which could be used as inclusions in standards/ codes / specifications and also should be useful to the society at large.
- Research and development in key areas of Advance Material
- To be the centre of excellence for sustainable technologies, which include use of alternate / marginal materials, like geosynthetics, C & D waste, waste plastic, industrial by-products, etc. in construction.
- To promote academia - industry tie ups / association, for creating opportunities to students’ project works.