Influence of Pavement Condition on Environmental Costs

Pellecuer, Luc; Assaf, Gabriel J.; St-Jacques, Michèle

doi:10.1061/(asce)te.1943-5436.0000721

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“…The latter study also includes an economic performance indicator, in the form of net present value (NPV), including the economic flows associated with road maintenance as well as vehicle consumption, calculated with a single discount rate of 2.3%. A decision support method for road surface management, developed by Pellecuer et al [45], calculates the monetized health impacts of road noise and atmospheric pollution, as well as the cost of carbon dioxide emissions associated with traffic, under different road surface conditions. It also includes the variation in fuel consumption but not wear on tires and suspension.…”

Section: Pvi Models and Road Maintenance Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Road Sustainability—Part I: Principles and Holistic Assessment Method for Pavement Maintenance Policies

2022

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Assessing the holistic sustainability of public policies remains a challenge rarely taken up due to a lack of adequate assessing methods. Frequently, only environmental and/or financial aspects are addressed, rather than the three pillars, including macro- and micro-economic as well as social performance. This paper presents an assessment method to fully compare the performance of pavement resurfacing policies for all its stakeholders and considering pavement–vehicle interactions. First, an analytical and then systemic approach to road maintenance highlights all its stakeholders, and a complete set of sustainability indicators is proposed to quantify the various impacts of maintenance programs: tax revenues, road operator’s and users’ savings, domestic production and employment, net present value, users’ time savings and noise reduction health benefits, as well as protection of natural resources, biodiversity and human health. Second, specific physical models of road condition (International Roughness Index) and its role in pavement–vehicle interaction in terms of vehicle consumption and wear as well as traffic noise are introduced. Then, equations to calculate these indicators are presented based on a comparison of existing assessment methods. The final transdisciplinary method pulls from road engineering, industrial ecology, acoustics and economics. It especially combines environmental and economic life cycle assessments and economic input–output analysis, as well as financial and socioeconomic appraisals. Finally, this article takes up the interdisciplinary challenge of building a fully holistic assessment method to help decision makers properly address sustainability, and its general algorithm can be adapted to assess a variety of transportation policies.

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Towards Road Sustainability—Part I: Principles and Holistic Assessment Method for Pavement Maintenance Policies

2022

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“…Pavement conditions significantly influence the generation of nuisances that influence the environment and increase the costs borne by society. The Pavement Environmental Impact Model (PEIM) is the first attempt to adapt the Impact Pathway Approach (IPA) to assess the emission, dispersion, and impact of noise, air pollution, and greenhouse gases so that environmental impacts can be included in the economic models of pavement management units (Pellecuer et al 2014).…”

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Determining Travel Conditions on Motorways for Automobile Trasport Based on the Case Study for Lithuanian Highways

2019

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In Lithuania, the efforts are made to ensure the conditions of safe, comfortable and fast passenger and freight transportation on Lithuanian roads, satisfying geometric characteristics of their particular categories and the specified requirements to their pavement. The considered characteristics of pavement include its roughness, strength and the admissible rut depth and destruction level. Rest and Service Areas (RSAs) are usually set up at the roadside. The paper presents a description of the conditions specified for the movement of motor vehicles on the major Lithuanian roads in the seasons of warm weather and a Classification Model (CM) of the required conditions. It also provides the results of the evaluation of actual Travel Conditions (TCs) on the main Lithuanian roads by using the developed model. The obtained results show that in 2016 on the considered highways were good and very good, except for road A9, where the TCs were satisfactory. It is demonstrated that the distances between RSAs comply with the recommended distances. It is also shown that roughness of pavement and strength of the Structure of the Pavement (SP) depend on the destruction level of pavement. The values of such pavement parameters as roughness, rut depth and destruction level, which should not be exceeded because they help to ensure either comfortable or good TCs on Lithuanian highways, are given. The suggested model of road TCs can be used for determining the quality of TCs on highways.

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“…Pavement management agencies spend a significant amount of public money every year to maintain roads and reduce the impacts of nuisances caused by pavement deterioration (Pellecuer, Assaf, & St-Jacques, 2014). Yet, U.S. roads continue to be in a state of disrepair, and there is substantial competition for these public dollars.…”

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Pavement Condition and Residential Property Values: A Spatial Hedonic Price Model for Solano County, California

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Shilling

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Public Works Management & Policy

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Transportation agencies invest billions of dollars every year in resurfacing roadways, ostensibly to improve the travel experience. When locally funded, one justification for increased expenditure on the pavement surface is that it could increase property values. We evaluated this approach directly, using hedonic regression to estimate the relationship between pavement condition and residential property value in Solano County, California. We hypothesized that improving pavement condition would positively affect property values in two ways: directly as an indicator of neighborhood blight and indirectly through its effect on traffic conditions and noise. We estimated this relationship for the County as a whole and for each city within the County, controlling for spatial autocorrelation. The estimated relationship is small in magnitude and often not statistically significant. Although there are certainly reasons to improve pavement condition, our results suggest that increasing property value may not be one of them.

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Influence of Pavement Condition on Environmental Costs

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Towards Road Sustainability—Part I: Principles and Holistic Assessment Method for Pavement Maintenance Policies

Towards Road Sustainability—Part I: Principles and Holistic Assessment Method for Pavement Maintenance Policies

Determining Travel Conditions on Motorways for Automobile Trasport Based on the Case Study for Lithuanian Highways

Pavement Condition and Residential Property Values: A Spatial Hedonic Price Model for Solano County, California

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