Developing a Framework for Life Cycle Assessment of Green Transportation Infrastructure (Railway and Super pavements)

As well known, the transportation industry and its related infrastructure including railway roads, require very high construction costs. In addition, excessive use of natural resources energy for maintenance has highlighted need adapting purposeful planning with regards to sustainability impacts. infrastructure, focus should be minimize consumption, Greenhouse Gas emissions other environmental impacts over their entire life cycle. this study, a new design substructure layer recycled Polypropylene (PP) is presented compared scenarios using virgin PP conventional ballast. A model was developed that can adequately evaluate resource effects various Geosynthetic (recycled Polypropylene) materials in rail layers comparison primary raw material. The takes into consideration technical properties investigated through finite element simulations decouple increase performance from outcome Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) indicates scenario causes lowest impact service 100 years. On hand, Finite Element (FE) results showed reinforced geosynthetics between ballasted better mechanical than ballast track railway.