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Application of LCA Results to Network-Level Highway Pavement Management

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Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements

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Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method developed in the 1960s for identifying environmental objectives, defining the system to be analyzed, quantifying environmentally important inputs and outputs to the system over a life cycle, and assessing the impacts. The application of LCA to pavements is a relatively new development. Pavement management systems (PMS) have been developed and implemented since the 1970s to manage pavement network asset inventories, collect condition data, predict performance for various management decisions and report the results to support decision-making needed to meet performance and cost objectives. This chapter discusses the relationship between LCA and PMS and benefits of integrating LCA into PMS. An example is provided for the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions on a state highway network. Gaps in implementation are identified, and recommendations are made for future work.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Pavement Research Center, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    John Harvey & Jeremy Lea

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, AgileAssets Inc, 3001 Bee Caves Rd Ste 200, Austin, TX, 78746, USA

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Harvey, J., Wang, T., Lea, J. (2014). Application of LCA Results to Network-Level Highway 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_2

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