LCA Pave: A Tool to Assess Environmental Impacts of Pavement Material and Design Decisions - User Manual

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• Creators:
  Ram, Prashant V ; Hoerner, Todd E. ; Meijer, Joep ; Smith, Kurt D. ; Harvey, John ; Butt, Ali
• Corporate Creators:
  Applied Pavement Technology, Inc.
• Contributors:
  Dylla, Heather L. ; Mukherjee, Amlan ; Bhat, Chaitanya
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Life cycle analysis
  • Environmental impacts
  • Paving materials
  • Asphalt
  • Concrete Life-cycle assessment
  • LCA
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HIF-22-032
• Resource Type:
  Manual
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Contracting Officer:
  Dylla, Heather
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  LCA Pave is a Microsoft® Excel®-based tool developed by FHWA that can be used to assess environmental impacts of pavement material and design decisions. The tool can be accessed from this webpage: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pavement/lcatool/ This document serves as the user manual for LCA Pave. The user manual provides the following: A general introduction to the tool, its data flow process, and the underlying analysis approach; Step-by-step instructions for navigating and using the tool to conduct analyses; Explanations of the key features of the tool, along with instructions on their use; Details on identifying appropriate inputs for particular analyses, and instructions on preparing and importing that data into the tool; Instructions on generating and customizing outputs; Examples using illustrating tool features.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFH61-15-D-00005-0005
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/62678/dot_62678_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.90 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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