Benchmarking Pavement Environmental Performance Using Data-Driven Modeling and Policy

Recently, federal and state governments have been implementing policy to reduce embodied emissions coming from the production of materials. However, pavement materials impact emissions throughout the pavement lifecycle, not just during production. This paper addresses how a new pavement evaluation system and policy framework might drive better solutions to reduce carbon emissions, from a climate change standpoint. The main components include: establishing why current pavement rating systems and current policy are not sufficient, performing a data-driven analysis with a grading and scorecard system to assess, compare, and summarizing pavement design quality, and proposing an effective policy framework to implement the system.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Vaidyanath, Varsha

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kichain, Randolph

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156976

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/156976