Looking to Aggregates to Improve Pavement Sustainability

The United States Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is conducting research, developing tools, and gathering data to improve how aggregate materials are sourced, planned, and used in sustainable pavement construction and maintenance. This article provides an overview of those activities. It also presents FHWA's Sustainable Pavements Program, which provides webinars, tools, and resources developed and presented to the pavement community that consider the elements of the triple bottom line of sustainability that are impacted by pavement design, aggregate choices, and pavement life cycle performance. Through the program, FHWA has developed tools to aid in choosing sustainable options for aggregate sources, transportation, and recycling, as well as showing how better performance and timely preservation are significant inputs into life-cycle analysis and pavement management concepts.

• Record URL:
  https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/21summer/06.cfm
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1586080
• Authors:
  • Meininger, Richard
  • Dylla, Heather
  • Youtcheff, Jack
• Publication Date: 2021

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 85
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregates; Environmental impacts; Life cycle analysis; Pavement design; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Paving; Paving materials; Quality assurance; Recycled materials; Road construction; Social impacts; Sustainable transportation
• Identifier Terms: Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center; U.S. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Materials; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01777271
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 23 2021 3:25PM