In India the traffic pattern has changed drastically and so has the technology.

Overloading has become a cause for serious concern and so have the volume of tan dem, tridem and multi-axle vehicles increased manifold. To handle this situation experience has been gained on the use of new form of construction and materials such as Stone Matrix Asphalt, modified bitumen, foamed bitumen, bitumen emulsio n, warm asphalt, cementitious bases and subbases. Of late Conventional as well as a number of commercially available chemical soil stabilizers are being successfully used in trial sections. Based on available e xperience the Flexible Pavement Design Guideline IRC:37:2012 has been approved b y the IRC Council. Attention is being focused on fatigue resistant bituminous mi xes with high viscosity binders for heavy traffic and stabilized base and sub ba se, pavements with a view to construct high performance long life bituminous pav ements also known as perpetual pavements. The guidelines reflect the current kno wledge in the subject. However there is a serious hesitation on the part of Prac ticing Engineers to adopt new Technologies. In addition due to tremendous growth of Infrastructure activities conventional c onstruction material like aggregates is becoming progressively scarce on account of environmental concerns as well as legal restrictions on quarrying while the construction activity has expanded phenomenally. This has shifted focus from lar ge scale use of conventional aggregates to use of local, recycled and engineered marginal aggregates as well as Stabilization in the road construction industry. It is recognized that research as well as performance trials have not been very extensive in India for some of the new materials but these have been included in the guidelines in the light of extensive performance reports and current practi ce in Australia, South Africa and other countries with due safeguards in design for heavy axle loads. Some trials in India have performed well. Accordingly, this revision of IRC 37 incorporates some of the new and alternate materials in road construction based on current design practices, and in this di rect the NHAI should issue directions in this regard making it mandatory to ado pt such new and improved technologies.