Life Cycle Assessment of Representative Swiss Road Pavements for National Roads with an Accompanying Life Cycle Cost Analysis
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Life cycle assessment of representative swiss road pavements for national roads with an accompanying life cycle cost analysis.
The subject of this paper is an environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) of processes needed to construct and maintain representative Swiss asphalt, concrete, and composite pavements (including subbase layers) applicable for the Swiss national road network over a period of 75 years. The environmental indicators analyzed are the global warming potential indic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Science & Technology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0013-936X,1520-5851
DOI: 10.1021/es400309e