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Development of life cycle assessment tool for pavement sustainability analysis

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Development of life cycle assessment tool for pavement sustainability analysis
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Thakkar
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Chinmay
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Chinmay Thakkar
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2016
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2016-01
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2016
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eng
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Motivated by the emerging importance of sustainability in transportation infrastructure, this study aims at developing a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool to quantify the energy and environmental impacts of pavements. The general LCA framework is incorporated into a highly customizable Excel-based software tool that can be used to facilitate environmental assessment of pavements at the project-level. The impact assessment focuses on the cumulative energy demand (CED) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in the material, construction, and maintenance phases of pavement life-cycle. LCA results are highly dependent on the quality and appropriateness of data in the life cycle inventory. Therefore, different inventory database from major pertinent studies were reviewed and summarized. To implement the LCA framework, case studies regarding runway pavement rehabilitation/reconstruction at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport and new runway pavement designs conducted using the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pavement design methodology were conducted. Life-cycle inventory data were compiled from literature and field surveys from contractors. The data variations in the material-related energy and emission rates were considered for sensitivity analysis. Both direct energy consumption and GHG emission and their corresponding upstream components related to process fuels were considered in the impact assessment. The results indicate that the expected pavement service life and maintenance treatments significantly affect the comparison between hot-mix asphalt (HMA) and Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements. The consideration of energy and emissions associated with the production of process fuels and electricity in the upstream process cannot be neglected in the LCA. The analysis findings suggest that there are no general conclusions on pavement type selection for sustainability and the project-level analysis need be conducted for selecting the most appropriate design alternatives.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (x, 119 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Life cycle costing
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Pavements, Asphalt concrete
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by Chinmay Thakkar
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doi:10.7282/T34F1STG
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ETD graduate
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Thakkar
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Chinmay
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2015-12-22 01:39:17
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Chinmay Thakkar
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2016-01-31
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2018-01-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after January 30th, 2018.
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