Environmental Impact Assessment of End-of-Life Strategies for Flexible Pavements and Development of a Decision Making Tool for Managing Local Roads

Even though transportation infrastructure is crucial to the economy, transport of food and goods, and basically every aspect of our daily lives, is a staggering source of material and energy consumption and creation of pollutions and unwanted emissions. The first step for managing the environmental impacts of such a system is to quantify them. This research aims at addressing the gaps in the knowledge in this area by developing regionally-representative and up-to-date models for quantifying the environmental impacts of various decisions in managing the transportation infrastructure, both at project and network level. Furthermore, this research will address issues and concerns facing local roads, which are of a different nature than what federal and state roads are facing, local governments need novel solutions specific to their challenges, and tools for determining the cost and environmental impacts of such solutions.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Saboori-project-information-v2.pdf
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Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $25000
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC29

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Project Managers:

  lacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Principal Investigators:

  Saboori, Arash

• Start Date: 20160101
• Expected Completion Date: 20170331
• Actual Completion Date: 20170331
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision support systems; Environmental impacts; Flexible pavements; Infrastructure; Pavement maintenance; Roads
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01710675
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC29
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 5 2019 10:02PM