Tomas Erich Tisberger Ibanez
Life Cycle Assessment of Pavements through PaLATE.
Rel. Ezio Santagata, Lucia Tsantilis, Eldho Choorackal Avirachan. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Civil Engineering, 2020
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Abstract
Sustainability concepts are becoming more and more popular over the years. In the transportation field, pavement´s construction plays a leading role regarding environmental issues and impacts; hence, different tools and methodologies are arising to handle them. The aim of this work is to critically analyze the possibility of employing one of these tools called PaLATE (Pavement Life-cycle Assessment Tool for Environmental and Economic Effects) in Europe. This tool works within a “Life Cycle Assessment” (LCA) methodology, which takes into account the whole process of a pavement construction, making emphasis principally in sustainability and giving an estimation of environmental burdens (emissions and resources´ consumption) useful for decision-makers, companies, governmental and non-governmental organizations.
To achieve the goal of this thesis two case studies were considered; the first one is the construction of the “Torre del Colle” viaduct located in the Piedmont region of Italy a few kilometers away from Turin in which the pavement is composed by two bituminous mixture layers
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