• The Federal Highway Administration and the Minnesota Department of Transportation worked to develop Veda 1.0 – software that can accept, display and analyze data from machines equipped for "intelligent compaction" (IC).
• IC machines have vibratory rollers that collect and report information as they go, including compaction of soils, aggregate bases or asphalt pavement materials.
• The FHWA, the Indiana DOT and the Minnesota DOT all say they are happy with the product from the Transtec Group.

From the article:

State highway official can expect to achieve an increase in pavement performance and a decrease in costs by using a new data management tool that is now freely available to the public. ...