Recovered binders from a Swiss long term pavement performance(LTPP) study have been investigated with dynamic shear and bendingbeam rheometer to evaluate whether superpave binder tests reflectLTPP better than traditional tests. In addition, tests were performedto quantify changes that may occur due to long-term storage atroom temperature. The results show that the new superpave bindertests are valuable tools to assess binders from old pavementsbut should be further analyzed, for example, by master curvesand Black diagrams. It was found that on a large scale basis superpavebinder tests lead to a ranking similar to traditional tests, especiallyfor warm temperature characteristics. As, on the other hand, traditionaltests are often the only link to original pavement data, thistype of tests should still be performed in parallel for LTPP studies.Finally, it was found that long-term storage may reduce the penetrationconsiderably.