Talaat Ali Abdel-Wahed is a Professor of Highway Engineering at Civil Engineering Department, Sohag University, Egypt. He serves as the Dean for faculty of engineering, Sohag university, and Director of the Highway and Airport Engineering Laboratory, Sohag University. Also, he is a Member of the Center for Eng. Consultation and Development Services, Faculty of Engineering, Sohag University. He received a BSc degree with honors in Civil Engineering, and an MSc and Ph.D. from Menoufia University. His fields of interest include consistency of highway geometric design, traffic performance analysis, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, the improvement of mechanical properties of hot and cold asphalt mixes, and asphalt pavement technology such as hot asphalt mixture design.