Dr. Pradeep Kumar is Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi. He has more than 25 years’ experience in R&D activities and contributed significantly in research and development works related to Non Destructive Test Techniques for Pavement Evaluation, Pavement Maintenance Management Systems for Roads and Runways and Geospatial Techniques for Pavement Evaluation. He is the Key person for successfully implementation of modern pavement evaluation technologies in India, mainly the Network Survey Vehicle System first time in the country for road inventory and pavement condition monitoring of road network.