Conference Presentations

No presentations are available for Tuesday, April 11. See the full program here.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Preliminary Panel and Keynote Address
Panel: Building Sustainable and Cost-Efficient PavementsCatherine Batey (FHWA); Aaron Weatherholt (IDOT); Paul Kovacs (Illinois Tollway)
Keynote Address: GREET Life Cycle Analysis of Transportation Fuels and Vehicle TechnologiesMichael Wang/ Amgad ElgowainyArgonne National Laboratory
Session: LCA Tools and Inventory Development (Moderator: Jeff Roesler)
Regionalized Inventory Development and Deployment in a LCA ToolImad Al-Qadi/ Hasan OzerUIUC, USA
eLCAP and PaveM, CA's Network and Project Level Quantification ToolsJohn HarveyUC Davis, USA
Pavement Life Cycle Assessment: A Comparison of American and European ToolsJoao SantosIFSTTAR, France
Development of EPD Program for Concrete IndustryBrian KillingsworthNRMCA, USA
Development of EPD Program for the Asphalt IndustryAmlan MukherjeeMTU, USA
Current Difficulties with Creation of Standardized Digital Climate Calculations for Infrastructural ProjectsLarissa StrombergNordic Construction Co., Sweden
Panel and Discussions (Moderator: Bill Vavrik)
Panel: Current and Future PLCA and EPD: An International PerspectiveSusanna Toller (Swedish Transport Administration); Jeremy Gregory (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Joep Meijer (The Right Environment),  Cesar Bartolome (IECA)
Session: Use-phase Models and Inventory Data Development (Moderator: Heather Dylla)
Probabilistic Assessment of Pavement-Vehicle Interaction ImpactsMehdi AkbarianMIT, USA
Development of Baseline Rolling Resistance for TiresJaime HernandezUIUC, USA
Analysis of Pavement Surface Condition on Truck Fuel ConsumptionLaura Trupia/Federico PerrottaUniversity of Nottingham, UK
Impact of PCC Pavement Structural Rolling Resistance on Vehicle Fuel EconomyKarim ChattiMSU, USA
Development and Application of LCA Tool for Cool PavementHui LI/Ali ButtUC Davis, USA
Rolling Resistance and Traffic Delay Impact on a Road Pavement Life Cycle Carbon Footprint AnalysisLaura TrupiaUniversity of Nottingham, UK
LCA Case Study for O'Hare International Airport Taxiway A & B RehabilitationJohn KulikowskiAir Force Civil Engineer Center, USA

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Session: Critical LCA Methodological Choices and Uncertainty Quantification (Moderator: Hasan Ozer)
An Uncoupled Pavement- Urban Canyon Model for Heat IslandsSushobhan SenUIUC, USA
Incorporating Uncertainty into Pavement LCCA and LCARandolph KirchainMIT, USA
Functional Unit Choice for Comparative Pavement LCA Involving Use-Stage with Pavement Roughness Uncertainty Quantification (UQ)Mojtaba ZiyadiUIUC, USA
Pay Items as the Building Blocks of an LCA ToolBill VavrikARA, USA
Calculation Method of Stockpiling and Use Phase in Road LCA: Case Study of Steel Slag RecyclingOumaya Yazoghli-MarzoukCerema, France
Session: Implementation of LCA for Optimizing Pavement Choices and Rehabilitation (Moderator: Kurt Smith)
Concrete Pavement Life Cycle Environmental Assessment and Economic Analysis: A Manitoba Case StudyJamie MeilAthena Sustainable Materials Institute, Canada
Life-Cycle Assessment of Road Pavements Containing Marginal Materials: Comparative Analysis Based on a Real Case StudyMarco Pasetto/Andrea BalielloUniversity of Padua, Italy
Comparative Eco-Efficiency Analysis between HIPR and M&FRuijun Cao/Zhen LengPolyU, Hong Kong
Environmental Assessment and Economic Analysis of Porous Pavement at SidewalkHao WangRutgers, USA
A New England LCA Framework for Pavement Maintenance/PreservationEshan DaveUNH, USA
Session: Incorporating LCA in the Design and Management of Pavement Systems (Moderator: Navneet Garg)
Capitalizing Green Pavement: A Method and ValuationQingbin Cui/David F. ChoyUMD, USA
A Methodology for Sustainable Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement DesignNeveen TalaatLSU, USA
Applications of LCA for Network-Level Pavement ManagementGerardo FlintschVirginia Tech, USA
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Effort on Sustainability and LCAJames AllenCERL, USA
Implementation of Life Cycle Thinking in Planning and Procurement at the Swedish Transport AdministrationSusanna TollerSTA, Sweden
FHWA Sustainable Pavements Program: Advancing LCAHeather DyllaFHWA, USA
Panel and Discussions (Moderators: Imad L. Al-Qadi/John Harvey)
Panel: Where Do We Go from Here!Leif Wathne (ACPA); Navneet Garg (FAA); Gina Ahlstrom (FHWA); Steve Gillen (Tollway); Richard Willis (NAPA); David Lippert (UIUC)