International Symposium on Pavement Life Cycle Assessment 2014
JULLIEN ; HARVEY
Type de document
DIRECTION D'OUVRAGE (DO)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
JULLIEN ; HARVEY
Résumé / Abstract
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a systems approach developed to provide decision support for questions regarding the environmental impact of industrial processes and products. The application of LCA to pavement management, design and construction helps to avoid the paradox of decisions that improve one aspect of sustainability of a pavement system, while unintentionally causing greater harm elsewhere. LCA is a field with ongoing developments and improvements. As applied to pavement, interest in the application of LCA to pavement is relatively new, except for some early pioneering works. Research, development, and implementation of LCA to pavement are increasing rapidly. These include moves towards more widespread standardization of practice, better alignment with international norms in other fields, resolution of gaps in data and technical approaches, and greater understanding of LCA on the part of pavement researchers, practitioners and decisionmakers, including both its power to assist decisionmaking and its pitfalls. However, as a field, the application of LCA to pavement is still only just leaving its childhood. The International Symposium on Pavement LCA 2014 was held on October 1416, 2014 in Davis, California.
Editeur
University of California
