UCPRC is the University of California Pavement Research Center. It is located on the University of California Davis campus in Davis, California. UCPRC has additional facilities at the University of California, Berkeley's Field Station in Richmond, Ca. They perform pavement engineering research in pavement structures and materials. They are funded through public and private research grants.
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