Use of recycled materials in a proposed highway application frequently requires the assessment of physical and environmental performance. Future behavior is often difficult to predict. As an alternative to field demonstrations, there is a need to develop strategies to predict long-term physical and environmental performance. Accelerated aging is one means of exploring the long-term physical and environmental performance of recycled materials in a highway. Coal fly ash (CFA) use in portland cement concrete (PCC) was selected as a model system to develop an accelerated aging approach. Three types of accelerated aging were chosen for this project: Arrhenius aging (AA), cyclic loading (CL), and freeze-thaw exposure (FT). This approach, incorporated in an experimental design, allowed a systematic exploration of the separate effects and combined interactions of both developmental and degradative accelerated aging variables. A slab from U.S. Route 20 in northwest Iowa was used as both the basis for the concrete mixes and as a field verification site.