Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment

<p>An increasing number of agencies academic institutes and governmental and industrial bodies are embracing the principles of sustainability in managing their activities and conducting business. <b>Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment </b>contains contributions to the Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment Symposium 2017 (Champaign IL USA 12-13 April 2017) and discusses the current status of as well as future developments for LCA implementation in project- and network-level applications. The papers cover a wide variety of topics:</p><p>- Recent developments for the regional inventory databases for materials construction and maintenance and rehabilitation life-cycle stages and critical challenges<br>- Review of methodological choices and impact on LCA results<br>- Use of LCA in decision making for project selection<br>- Implementation of case studies and lessons learned: agency perspectives<br>- Integration of LCA into pavement management systems (PMS)<br>- Project-level LCA implementation case studies<br>- Network-level LCA applications and critical challenges<br>- Use-phase rolling resistance models and field validation<br>- Uncertainty assessment in all life-cycle stages<br>- Role of PCR and EPDs in the implementation of LCA</p><p>Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment will be of interest to academics professionals and policymakers involved or interested in Highway and Airport Pavements.</p>