This study aims to evaluate economic and environmental benefits of porous pavement surface using life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) and life-cycle assessment (LCA). The research will focus on application of porous surface for sidewalk. The life-cycle inventory data were collected from literature search, online database, and project records. The comparison study was conducted between pervious pavin...

ABSTRACT: Most pavement maintenance management systems tend to be either non-analytical databases or statistical correlation models. However, pavement maintenance is part of a complex system comprising the road pavement, the environment, diverse users, the maintenance authority and Local/State/Federal Governments. This system has significant feedbacks, making it a suitable field for system dyna...

Infrastructure systems in the US are in an urgent need of maintenance and rehabilitation. According to the most recent factsheet published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, one of the top five infrastructure concerns of today in the US is transportation systems. The major challenge facing maintenance managers in state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) today is to preserve the road ...

The objective of this project was to develop a structural index for use in network-level pavement evaluation to facilitate the inclusion of the pavement’s structural condition in pavement management applications. The primary goal of network-level pavement management is to provide the best service to the users for the available, often limited, resources. Pavement condition can be described in te...

Present paper deals with the development of a Mechanistic-Empirical model strain-based design perpetual road pavement using Odemark's principle. The bituminous which can withstand minimum traffic 300 msa has been classified as in this paper. considered three-layered system top layer mix followed by unbound granular materials rest on soil subgrade. constituent thickness determined limiting radia...

In China, the construction of asphalt pavement has a significant impact on the environment, and energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from asphalt pavement construction have been receiving increasing attention in recent years. At present, there is no universal criterion for the evaluation of GHG emissions in asphalt pavement construction. This paper proposes to define the system boundar...

Asphalt road reflectance spectra change as pavement ages. This provides the possibility for remote sensing to be used to monitor a change in asphalt pavement conditions. However, the relatively narrow geometry of roads and the relatively coarse spatial resolution of remotely sensed imagery result in mixtures between pavement and adjacent landcovers (e.g., vegetation, buildings, and soil), incre...

The Heavy Weight Deflectometer (HWD) test is one of the most widely used tests for assessing the structural integrity of airport pavements in a non-destructive manner. The elastic moduli of the individual pavement layers predicted from the HWD deflection measurements through inverse engineering analysis are effective indicators of pavement layer condition. The primary objective of this study wa...

The construction, repair and rehabilitation of concrete pavements relies on the production and flow of large quantities of concrete and its constituents. Within the US, nearly 43 megatons of cement are used annually for the construction, repair and rehabilitation of concrete pavements, accounting for over 39 megatons of CO2 emissions. To reduce environmental impact and improve the sustainabilit...

Of the many improvements in the design of highway pavements during the past two decades, it is doubtful that any have been more important to the life and service of the pavement than the incorporation of the granular base course as a design feature. The true significance of the base course can be more thoroughly understood if one considers the merits of this practice. First, the properly design...