Quantifying the Sustainable Benefits of Preserving Canada's Road Assets

The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) has implemented numerous innovative pavement preservation strategies in recent years to maximize cost savings in repair operations and extend pavement life in a sustainable manner. These strategies are considered sustainable as they improve pavement quality and durability, and extend pavement service life, while reducing energy consumption and green house gas (GHG) emissions. This paper outlines the various flexible pavement preservation treatments utilized by MTO to achieve sustainability including micro-surfacing, chip seal, ultra-thin bonded friction course, fiber modified chip seal, and hot in-place recycling (HIR). Pavement preservation sustainability is quantified in a case study using the PaLATE software by comparing the energy consumption and GHG emissions generated for various flexible pavement preservation strategies, against a conventional rehabilitation treatment on a life cycle basis. The results indicate that these innovative pavement preservation strategies significantly reduce energy use and GHG emissions when compared to traditional treatments. The paper quantifies the sustainable benefits of innovative flexible pavement preservation treatments in terms of energy and material savings and GHG emission reductions. An innovative environmental rating system to promote sustainable preservation of road assets is also discuss

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • The local host for the conference is Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; the international host is the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council, USA.
• Corporate Authors:

  Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

  College of Engineering
  Avenida Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Macul
  Santiago,   Chile 
• Authors:
  • Kazmierowski, Tom
  • Chan, Susanne
  • Lane, Becca
  • Lee, Warren
• Conference:
  • Eighth International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets
  • Location: Santiago , Chile
  • Date: 2011-11-15 to 2011-11-19
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: 8th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets, November 15-19, 2011, Santiago, Chile: "Fulfilling the Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility for Sustainable, Well Managed, Better Roads"

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Energy consumption; Flexible pavements; Greenhouse gases; Pavement maintenance; Rehabilitation; Sustainable development
• Identifier Terms: Ontario Ministry of Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement preservation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01366576
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9789561412309
• Report/Paper Numbers: ICMPA034
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 2012 11:30AM