A critical review of the life cycle assessment studies on road pavements and road infrastructures

Y Aryan, AK Dikshit, AM Shinde - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of life cycle assessment (LCA)
studies related to road pavements and road infrastructures. The main aim of this study is to …

Estimation of environmental impacts of roads through life cycle assessment: A critical review and future directions

R Jiang, P Wu - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Motivated by the lack of a systematic analysis of the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) to
estimate the environmental impacts of roads, this study conducts a critical review to examine …

Systematic review of life cycle assessment and life cycle cost analysis for pavement and a case study

WS Alaloul, M Altaf, MA Musarat, M Faisal Javed… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Development of the pavement network systems, which is inevitable due to the rapid
economic growth, has increasingly become a topic of significant concern because of the …

Life cycle assessment of road construction alternative materials: A literature review

A Balaguera, GI Carvajal, J Albertí… - Resources …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Research on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was initially performed to analyze
specific products; however, it evolved to assess environmental impacts of more complex …

Life cycle assessment of pavements: a critical review of existing literature and research

N Santero - 2010 - escholarship.org
This report provides a critical review of existing literature and modeling tools related to life-
cycle assessment (LCA) applied to pavements. The review finds that pavement LCA is an …

Comparison of life-cycle assessment tools for road pavement infrastructure

JMO Dos Santos, S Thyagarajan… - Transportation …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Road pavements have considerable environmental burdens associated with their initial
construction, maintenance, and usage, which have led the pavement stakeholder …

Life-cycle assessment of pavements Part II: Filling the research gaps

NJ Santero, E Masanet, A Horvath - Resources, Conservation and …, 2011 - Elsevier
As life-cycle assessment (LCA) increasingly is used to evaluate the environmental footprint
of pavements, there is growing need to critique the state and utility of the supporting science …

Life cycle assessment of pavements: reviewing research challenges and opportunities

H AzariJafari, A Yahia, MB Amor - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 - Elsevier
An extensive growth in pavement life cycle assessment studies is noticed in recent years.
Current literature in pavement life cycle assessment demonstrates a wide range of …

A life cycle assessment model for pavement management: methodology and computational framework

J Santos, A Ferreira, G Flintsch - International journal of pavement …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the general consensus among stakeholders on how useful the life cycle assessment
(LCA) methodology can be in helping to reduce the environmental burdens of a road …

Life-cycle assessment of pavements. Part I: Critical review

NJ Santero, E Masanet, A Horvath - Resources, Conservation and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The rapidly expanding set of pavement life-cycle assessments (LCAs) available in the
literature represents the growing interest in improving the sustainability of this critical …