Sustainable Pavement Maintenance Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 9681
Special Issue Editors
Interests: life cycle assessment; pavement design and recycling; road safety
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: pavement materials; cement and concrete; low carbon construction materials; hot mix and cold mix asphalt
Interests: sustainable construction; carbon neutrality; resilient infrastructure; optimization; artificial intelligence
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: pavement material characterization; green asphalt technologies (e.g., warm mix asphalt); pavement design and modeling; nondestructive and advanced performance testing; recycled and reclaimed materials evaluation; pavement rehabilitation and maintenance; smart and resilient civil engineering material design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Roads enable the movement of people, goods, and services. The condition of road pavement (e.g., skid resistance, roughness) has proven effects on vehicle safety and fuel efficiency. Good design and maintenance of this vital infrastructure has a large part to play in meeting the sustainability goals of the transport sector, such as carbon reduction. Conventional ways of take–use–dispose of resources are widely considered unsustainable. Responsive road maintenance (e.g., worst first) finds it increasingly difficult to cope with the rising demand and budget constraints. Another area often overlooked by pavement professionals is the consequence of interventions on users and the environment. A holistic lifecycle approach that takes into account the many impacts of road pavement through its supply chain has only recently begun to be applied but has already demonstrated its potential for wide use in the industry. In this, the quality of asset data is critical to ensure that maintenance is adequately evaluated. Emerging technologies provide new challenges as well as opportunities for advancement in material development, operational efficiency, and collaboration with other disciplines, such as energy, air quality, and data science.
This Special Issue in Sustainability welcome contributions from pavement engineers, road designers and researchers, highway agencies, contractors, material scientists, and doctoral and postgraduate students. Manuscripts may be focused in one or span across several areas of the following subjects:
- Low carbon materials;
- Novel reuse or recycling techniques;
- Life cycle assessment;
- Energy harvesting from roads;
- Simulation and modeling of pavement deterioration;
- Laboratory/field testing techniques for pavement asset data;
- Self-healing materials;
- Pavement functional performance, such as rolling resistance, tire noise, skid resistance;
- Measurement of brake/tire wear emissions;
- Novel surfacing materials, such as uptake of carbon or air pollutants from vehicle exhaust;
- Advanced analytical techniques, such as image processing and AI use;
- Preparedness for electric vehicles and vehicle autonomy;
- Nondestructive testing (NDT) of asphalt pavement.
Dr. Yue Huang
Dr. Sadique Monower
Dr. Yaning Qiao
Dr. Shenghua Wu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Pavement functional performance
- Novel surfacing materials
- Asphalt pavement
- Low carbon materials
- Energy harvesting from roads
