Carbon footprint for HMA and PCC pavements.

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• Creators:
  Mukherjee, Amlan ; Cass, Darrell
• Corporate Creators:
  Michigan Tech Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Michigan. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Hot mix asphalt
  • Portland cement concrete
  • Concrete pavements
  • Environmental impacts
  • Air quality management
  • Decision making
  • Evaporative emissions
  • Carbon footprint, GHG, Emission calculator, LCA, Decisionmaking,
  • Construction, Project inventory, Use phase, Material emissions
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RC-1553
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Michigan
• Corporate Publisher:
  Michigan. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Motivated by the need to address challenges of global climate change, this study develops and implements a project ; based life cycle framework that can be used to estimate the carbon footprint for typical construction work-items ; found in reconstruction, rehabilitation and Capital Preventive Maintenance (CPM) projects. The framework builds ; on existing life cycle assessment methods and inventories. The proposed framework considers the life cycle ; emissions of products and processes involved in the raw material acquisition and manufacturing phase, and the ; pavement construction phase. It also accounts for emissions due to vehicular use and maintenance operations during ; the service life of the pavements. The framework also develops and implements a method to calculate project level ; construction emission metrics. Finally, the research provides a web-based tool, the Project Emission Estimator (PE- ; 2) that can be used to benchmark the CO2 footprint of highway construction projects. In conclusion, the research ; suggests ways of implementing the proposed framework within MDOT to help reduce the CO2 footprint of highway ; construction projects.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  2006-0414
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23289/dot_23289_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.08 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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