If you’re a pavement engineer, civil engineering student, or researcher working on airport and highway pavement design , you have almost certainly heard of IITPave .
| Software | Platform | Notes | |----------|----------|-------| | | Windows (DOS-era) | Classic, but needs emulation. | | ElSym5 | Windows GUI | Good for teaching layered elastic theory. | | Cirly | Web/Java | Lightweight online layered analysis. | | Pavement ME (AASHTOWare) | Windows | For highways (not airports). |
For pavement engineering in 2025 and beyond, leave IITPave where it belongs: in the history books (and maybe a VM for nostalgia). Drop a comment below.
Instead, download directly from the FAA. It’s free, safe, up-to-date, and accepted for real-world airport pavement design. If you need IITPave only to check an old design, run it inside a Windows XP virtual machine using a trusted backup copy.