… design and maintenance of asphalt pavement, a comprehensive reliability-based optimization
methodology considering the life-cycle cost (… performance of asphalt pavement based on …

… pavement design or preservation as optimal but makes available a methodology for pavement
LCCA decision-making on the basis of costs … study, an asphalt pavement is one where all …

… a new pavement design optimization model considering costs … to help pavement designers
to choose the best pavement … When thick hot-mix asphalt pavements are built on sound …

… The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) defines a perpetual or longlife pavement as “an
asphalt pavement designed and built to last longer than 50 years without requiring major …

… in Hong Kong and in the rest of the world are asphalt (flexible) pavements, this … the asphalt
layers, while for resurfacing only the surface layer is considered. Pavement construction cost …

… The Asphalt Institute fatigue and rutting distress equations are used to check the AASHTO
… optimum algorithm that minimizes the total pavement cost was used (Sniedovich 1992; …

… the fact that the cost as well as the reliability levels of these design alternatives are different.
… assist a pavement designer in selecting an optimal pavement design thickness which is cost …

… This study showed that in the current situation (material prices in 2015), use of asphalt treated
layer in pavement structure is not cost effective. Also it was shown that, with increasing the …

… -Empirical Pavement Design Guide. We then derived the consequences of these effects on
life-cycle cost by using a specific life-cycle cost model. Our results demonstrate that asphalt …

… asphalt pavement maintenance optimization model was developed at the project level to
bridge the gap between environmental assessment and pavement … of different designs. The …