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Environmental Performance Indicators for Roadway and Highway Infrastructures Management

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Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures (EUROSTRUCT 2021)

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Abstract

This work reviews the main performance indicators (PIs) currently used in literature to assess the environmental-related impacts for the phases of construction and quality control and management of infrastructures, with special attention to those applied on roadways and highways. Particularly, the adoption of such non-technical PIs may have a significant impact on decision-making processes to define both constructive choices, and also managing and maintanance protocols. Among the analysed PIs, on one hand, simplified indicators, such as those based on simplified mass balance functions, are suitable to quickly highlight if recycling/reuse strategies are adopted. On the other hand, those derived through a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are worth to be mentioned, due to their ability of capturing the whole impacts within defined system boundaries during the life-cycle of the infrastructure. Such impacts can also be translated into costs, indicating the economic value loss caused by the degradation of the environmental indicators.

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  1. Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Flora Faleschini & Mariano Angelo Zanini

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Flora Faleschini

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  1. DICEA, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Carlo Pellegrino

  2. DICEA, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Flora Faleschini

  3. DICEA, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Mariano Angelo Zanini

  4. Civil Engineering Department, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    José C. Matos

  5. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Joan R. Casas

  6. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

    Alfred Strauss

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Faleschini, F., Zanini, M.A. (2022). Environmental Performance Indicators for Roadway and Highway Infrastructures Management. In: Pellegrino, C., Faleschini, F., Zanini, M.A., Matos, J.C., Casas, J.R., Strauss, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures. EUROSTRUCT 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91877-4_153

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