@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 = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 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",
}