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Sustainable Pavement Management

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Sustainable pavement management as a business practice is about facilitating pavement investment trade-offs considering the triple bottom line of sustainability during the design, construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation of pavements. This chapter discusses the basic principles of pavement management and the changes necessary to help pavement manager make more sustainable decisions. It discusses the various levels of pavement management decisions, the importance of pavement management as a key asset management business process, and the data needed to support the various levels of analysis. A more sustainable decision-making pro-cess requires tools for analyzing the economic, environmental, and social impacts, as well as for comparing the pavement investment trade-offs. The chapter reviews some of these tools, provides guidelines for incorporating sustainability into the various levels pavement management decision making, and recommendations for making pavement management systems sustainable within an organization.

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  1. Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 3500 Transportation Research Plaza, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Gerardo Flintsch & James Bryce

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  1. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

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  2. Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Eng., Built Environment & IT, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Wynand JvdM Steyn

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA

    John Harvey

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Flintsch, G., Bryce, J. (2014). Sustainable Pavement Management. In: Gopalakrishnan, K., Steyn, W., Harvey, J. (eds) Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44719-2_13

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