@inproceedings{388ec76874904c07a37c087720621dba,
title = "Development of an environmental life-cycle assessment (LCA) protocol for flexible pavements that integrates life-cycle components to a proprietary software",
abstract = "Significant progress has been made in research on environmental Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of pavements. Use of this new knowledge has been slowed by a lack of standardized datasets and analysis protocols. Several software packages have been developed to address this by providing datasets with broader coverage and better quality, but practitioners need application-specific data input interfaces for easy use. The authors report work on developing a protocol for environmental LCA of flexible pavements that uses a proprietary software system with data input interface plug-ins they developed for each of the five flexible pavement life-cycle phases. This protocol allows designers to integrate environmental LCA with Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) to select the optimum design from several alternatives. With looming transformative changes in pavement materials and technology landscapes, this protocol also has the potential to allow a more effectively holistic assessment of such novel systems.",
author = "F. Osmani and M. Hettiwatte and S. Kshirsagar and S. Senadheera and Zhang, {H. C.}",
note = "Funding Information: Authors would like to acknowledge the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for their support as sponsor of this research. Authors would also like to acknowledge the technical support received by Dr. Feri Afrinaldi and Mrs. Shahrima Maharubin during this study. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK.; null ; Conference date: 12-04-2017 Through 13-04-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1201/9781315159324-5",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138066052",
series = "Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment - Proceedings of the Pavement Life-cycle Assessment Symposium, 2017",
publisher = "CRC Press/Balkema",
pages = "31--40",
editor = "Al-Qadi, {Imad L.} and Hasan Ozer and John Harvey",
booktitle = "Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment - Proceedings of the Pavement Life-cycle Assessment Symposium, 2017",
}