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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Pavement Life Cycle"”.
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Uncertainty quantification for pavement life-cycle stages
Life-cycle assessment (LCA), a common sustainability metric, is usually adopted to quantify the environmental consequences of a product. It has been shown that rolling resistance (RR), a major component of pavement LCA use stage, has significant impact on transportation-related energy consumption. …
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Development and implementation of comprehensive regionalized pavement life-cycle assessment
The use of life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impacts of pavement systems is a topic that stakeholders in academia, industry, and government have actively engaged with in the last two decades. The LCA methodology aims to provide quantitative environmental metrics such as …
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Development of mechanistic rolling resistance model for pavement life cycle assessment
… industry to achieve sustainable transportation. Life cycle assessment (LCA) quantifies the environmental impacts of a product. It has been shown that a major component of pavement LCA results from rolling resistance (RR) between vehicle-pavement interaction. This study focuses primarily on the …
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Development of a pavement life cycle assessment tool for airfield rehabilitation strategies
… impacts of infrastructure projects like life cycle costs is in higher demand. Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies/tools are developed for highway infrastructure and pavements with a limited number of studies developed for airports and even fewer for the airport pavement infrastructure. A …
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Applying Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Results to Enhance Sustainable Pavement Management Decision Making
Sustainable pavement management implies maintaining acceptable condition of pavements while also considering the tradeoff between cost, environmental impacts and social impacts of pavement investments. Typical pavement management practices only consider economic considerations, and environmental …
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Development of a pavement life cycle assessment tool utilizing regional data and introducing an asphalt binder model
… to evaluate the sustainability of roadway and pavement systems has become an important and emerging topic in the field of transportation engineering. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a quantitative method that can be used to measure the environmental impacts of pavements. A LCA framework for …
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The development of a regional inventory database for the material phase of the pavement life-cycle with updated vehicle emission factors using moves
… the past few decades, the growing interest in pavement sustainability has led researchers in government agencies, industries, and academia to develop various sustainability rating systems and life-cycle assessment (LCA) tools for roadways and pavements. However, many of the existing pavement …
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Optimization of lateral position of autonomous truck platoons to improve roadway infrastructure sustainability
… for platooning CATs. Therefore, we need a new pavement design framework to quantify the effects of CATs on pavement structures. This dissertation first addresses this gap by developing a new pavement design framework for CATs. This framework may allow for the modification of analytical pavement …
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Data-Driven Sustainability Assessment in Roadway Infrastructure Construction
Rating systems and life cycle assessment frameworks have been extensively used to measure and evaluate the sustainability performance of roadway infrastructure. However, the existing literature lacks studies that use roadway construction data to evaluate the state of practice and establish …
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Towards a robust life cycle assessment tool for sustainable pavement designs : quantifying context-specific impacts of pavement albedo
While guidance have been developed for pavement life cycle assessment (LCA) in recent decades, it has not been widely implemented for supporting environmentally conscious pavement designs, partially due to the limitations in sub-models for quantifying the use phase impacts, such as albedo. …
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Development of a life-cycle assessment tool for flexible pavement in-place recycling techniques and conventional methods
The worldwide interest in using recycled materials in flexible pavements as an alternative to virgin materials has increased significantly over the past few decades. Therefore, recycling has been utilized in the pavement maintenance and rehabilitation activities. Three types of in-place recycling …
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Optimization of pavement rehabilitation scheduling and budget under uncertainty
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Impact of pavements on the urban heat island
… during daytime. In the study of sustainable pavements, UHIs are studied under the use phase of a pavement Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to quantify the impact of the pavement on the local heat budget and microclimate. To study UHI within a pavement LCA framework, two challenges were tackled. …