Abstract: A system adjusts an instantaneous turn center for a paving machine having a tow vehicle and a screed assembly towed by the tow vehicle such that no portion of the screed assembly moves backward over freshly laid pavement when the paving machine paves around a curve. The system receives an input from an operator, a sensor, and/or a database. The input includes a distance and a direction from a first vertical axis defined by a traction device of the tow vehicle on a side of the tow vehicle facing the curve, to a second adjusted vertical axis defined by a point at least as far from the first vertical axis as an outer edge of the screed assembly that touches the curve. The system receives the input, and adjusts the instantaneous turn center for the paving machine to coincide with the second adjusted vertical axis.