Sustainability Issues in Road Construction and Use
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 12939
Special Issue Editor
Interests: road pavements; road materials; asphalt; unbound materials; recycling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability is an approach that involves different business practices around the world, with some indices pursuing an integrated approach to assessing sustainability performance. Not only public agencies but also private companies focus on sustainability issues to enhance their long-term potential. In 2000, the United Nations promoted the United Nations Global Compact initiative to encourage sustainable and socially responsible policies in businesses worldwide. According to the initiative, “business should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges, undertake initiatives to promote environmental responsibility and encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies”. These positions stimulate both industrial competition looking for technologies ensuring environmentally-friendly solutions and political initiatives to promote effective and real results.
The experience to date reveals the importance of implementing this approach in the road sector and assessing its externalities in order to pursue different, often conflicting goals: Economic, environmental, and social issues that could interfere with needs of future generations should be investigated. Both the construction and use of roads have a range of impacts; therefore, it is important to assess the sources of their burdens to adopt correct mitigation technologies and policies. Therefore, the present Special Issue involves all activities from cradle to grave of a road infrastructure: models to assess atmosphere emissions and identify low-impact techniques; strategies to manage the traffic demand for a given service level; studies on innovative, “green” materials; procedures, laboratory, and in situ tests to use secondary raw materials in road construction; procedures to increase passengers’ and workers’ safety; technologies to prevent and minimize the mechanical, social, and economical consequences of accidents; technology challenges for energy efficiency of vehicles; and all analyses aimed at pursuing sustainable development challenges.
This Special Issue, entitled “Sustainability Issues in Road Construction and Use”, addresses the most important topics in these very frontiers and the way they could be implemented.
Prof. Dr. Antonio D'Andrea
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable road transport
- Environmental impact
- Road materials
- Road design
- Road construction
- Road maintenance
- Low-impact vehicles
- Life cycle analysis
