An Improved Method for Optimizing the Timing of Preventive Maintenance of Pavement: Integrating LCA and LCCA
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Abstract
The optimal preventive maintenance timing of traditional asphalt pavement is based on the maximum benefit-cost ratio. For cost evaluation indicators, mainly agency cost and user cost, use life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) to determine. The environmental impact of pavement preventive maintenance activities is often overlooked. For the benefit evaluation index, only the new area under the performance curve is used to express the maintenance benefit, and the benefit evaluation index is single. This study proposes an integrated approach combining life cycle assessment (LCA) and LCCA to model preventive maintenance timing decisions considering economic, social, and environmental factors. In this paper, LCA is used to quantitatively analyze the energy consumption and emissions in the pavement operation and maintenance process, and the environmental costs are also included in the accounting scope of the costs. The costs that constitute pavement use are analyzed from three aspects: the agency cost, the user cost, and the environmental cost. At the same time, in the process of constructing the cost model, the costs caused by the maintenance construction process to users and the environment are also taken into consideration. Aiming at the benefit index and comprehensively considering the economic benefits, social benefits, and environmental benefits brought by maintenance, a comprehensive evaluation model of maintenance benefits was constructed based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). On the basis of accurately calculating the cost and benefit of maintenance in the life cycle, the model of the optimal preventive maintenance timing of asphalt pavement is constructed so as to calculate the optimal timing of preventive maintenance and provide certain information for the formulation of expressway pavement preventive maintenance programs. For reference. Taking a highway project in China as an example to verify the applicability of the model
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OpenAlex topics: Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation · Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring · Life Cycle Costing Analysis
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The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Tongji University, 4800 Cao’an Road, Shanghai 201804, China
Postdoctoral Station of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
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