Life cycle impacts during early stages of road infrastructure planning: a case study in Sweden

Road infrastructure has effects on the environment throughout all of its life cycle phases: construction, maintenance, operation and end-of-life. It has been observed, however, that these life cycle impacts are not usually considered during early stages of road infrastructure planning (i.e. decisions on road corridor). The recently developed LICCER tool enables assessment of road corridor alternatives during early stages of road infrastructure planning. It includes input data for roads, bridges and tunnels. It also considers future emissions from traffic. The life cycle impact categories covered are energy use and contribution to climate change. The developed tool is being tested in a case study. Construction of a specific road in Sweden was used to demonstrate how the model is able to show differences between road corridor alternatives. Sensitivity analysis was applied to show the robustness of its results.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)

  14-20 bd Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs su Marne
  77447 Marne la Vallée,   France  Cedex 2
• Authors:
  • Birgisdóttir, H
  • Toller, S
  • LUNDBERG, K
  • Potting, J
  • Miliutenko, Sofio
  • Liljenström, Carolina
  • Brattebø, Helge
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena (TRA) 5th Conference: Transport Solutions from Research to Deployment
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2014-4-14 to 2014-4-17
• Publication Date: 2014-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Climate change; Environment; Environmental impacts; Highway planning; Life cycle costing; Route choice
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road design and asset management
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• ATRI Terms: Case study; Climate change; Environment; Environmental effects; Life cycle costs; Road planning; Route choice
• Subject Areas: Environment; Finance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01534650
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: VTI, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 14 2014 10:17AM