Tuesday, April 11, 2017
| 8:00-17:00 | Sustainable Pavements Technical Working Group Meeting (Open to All) | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Reception and Poster Session | |
| Andrew Braham, UARK, USA | Exploring Alternative Methods of Environmental Analysis | |
| Manil Hettiwatte, TTU, USA | Development of an Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) Protocol for Flexible Pavements that Integrates Life-Cycle Components to a Proprietary Software | |
| Megha Sharma & Sundeep Inti, UTEP, USA | Role of Uncertainty Assessment in LCA of Pavements | |
| Mouna Krami Senhaji, UIUC, USA | Life-Cycle Assessment Tool Development for Flexible Pavement In-Place Recycling Techniques | |
| Laura Trupia, University of Nottingham, UK | Review and Comparison of Freely-available Tools for Pavement Carbon Footprinting in Europe | |
| Ruijun Cao, PolyU, Hong Kong | Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Asphalt Rubber Pavement Based on Life Cycle Analysis | |
| Filippo Pratico, UNIRC, Italy | LCCA for Silent Surfaces | |
| Arash Saboori , UC Davis, USA | Quantification of Energy Consumption, GHG Emissions, and Smog Formation of End-of-Life Alternatives for Pavements in California, a Case Study | |
| Umit Deniz Tursun, UIUC, USA | Emission Controlled Network-Level Pavement Management System | |
| Mohamed Younes, LJMU, UK | Moving Towards An Egyptian Life Cycle Assessment Tool For Construction Of Asphalt Pavements | |
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
| 8:00-8:10 | Welcome! | Conference Chair | |
| Preliminary Panel and Keynote Address | |||
| 8:10-9:00 | Panel: Building Sustainable and Cost-Efficient Pavements | Catherine Batey (FHWA); Aaron Weatherholt (IDOT); Paul Kovacs (Illinois Tollway) | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Keynote Address: GREET Life Cycle Analysis of Transportation Fuels and Vehicle Technologies | Michael Wang/ Amgad Elgowainy | Argonne National Laboratory |
| 9:30-9:50 | Break and Poster Session | ||
| Session: LCA Tools and Inventory Development (Moderator: Jeff Roesler) | |||
| 9:50-10:20 | Regionalized Inventory Development and Deployment in a LCA Tool | Imad Al-Qadi/ Hasan Ozer | UIUC, USA |
| 10:20-10:50 | eLCAP and PaveM, CA’s Network and Project Level Quantification Tools | John Harvey | UC Davis, USA |
| 10:50-11:10 | Pavement Life Cycle Assessment: A Comparison of American and European Tools | Joao Santos | IFSTTAR, France |
| 11:10-11:30 | Development of EPD Program for Concrete Industry | Brian Killingsworth | NRMCA, USA |
| 11:30-11:50 | Development of EPD Program for the Asphalt Industry | Amlan Mukherjee | MTU, USA |
| 11:50-12:10 | Current Difficulties with Creation of Standardized Digital Climate Calculations for Infrastructural Projects | Larissa Stromberg | Nordic Construction Co., Sweden |
| 12:10-13:20 | Lunch | ||
| Panel and Discussions (Moderator: Bill Vavrik) | |||
| 13:20-14:40 | Panel: Current and Future PLCA and EPD: An International Perspective | Susanna Toller (Swedish Transport Administration); Jeremy Gregory (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Joep Meijer (The Right Environment), Cesar Bartolome (IECA) | |
| 14:40-15:00 | Break and Poster Session | ||
| Session: Use-phase Models and Inventory Data Development (Moderator: Heather Dylla) | |||
| 15:00-15:20 | Probabilistic Assessment of Pavement-Vehicle Interaction Impacts | Mehdi Akbarian | MIT, USA |
| 15:20-15:40 | Development of Baseline Rolling Resistance for Tires | Jaime Hernandez | UIUC, USA |
| 15:40-16:00 | Analysis of Pavement Surface Condition on Truck Fuel Consumption | Laura Trupia/Federico Perrotta | University of Nottingham, UK |
| 16:00-16:20 | Impact of PCC Pavement Structural Rolling Resistance on Vehicle Fuel Economy | Karim Chatti | MSU, USA |
| 16:20-16:40 | Development and Application of LCA Tool for Cool Pavement | Hui LI/Ali Butt | UC Davis, USA |
| 16:40-17:00 | Rolling Resistance and Traffic Delay Impact on a Road Pavement Life Cycle Carbon Footprint Analysis | Laura Trupia | University of Nottingham, UK |
| 17:00-17:20 | LCA Case Study for O’Hare International Airport Taxiway A & B Rehabilitation | John Kulikowski | Air Force Civil Engineer Center, USA |
| 18:30 | Dinner (Cash bar starting 18:00) | ||
Thursday, April 13, 2017
| Session: Critical LCA Methodological Choices and Uncertainty Quantification (Moderator: Hasan Ozer) | |||
| 8:00-8:20 | An Uncoupled Pavement- Urban Canyon Model for Heat Islands | Sushobhan Sen | UIUC, USA |
| 8:20-8:40 | Incorporating Uncertainty into Pavement LCCA and LCA | Randolph Kirchain | MIT, USA |
| 8:40-9:00 | Functional Unit Choice for Comparative Pavement LCA Involving Use-Stage with Pavement Roughness Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) | Mojtaba Ziyadi | UIUC, USA |
| 9:00-9:20 | Pay Items as the Building Blocks of an LCA Tool | Bill Vavrik | ARA, USA |
| 9:20-9:40 | Calculation Method of Stockpiling and Use Phase in Road LCA: Case Study of Steel Slag Recycling | Oumaya Yazoghli-Marzouk | Cerema, France |
| 9:40-10:20 | Break and Poster Session | ||
| Session: Implementation of LCA for Optimizing Pavement Choices and Rehabilitation (Moderator: Kurt Smith) | |||
| 10:20-10:40 | Concrete Pavement Life Cycle Environmental Assessment and Economic Analysis: A Manitoba Case Study | Jamie Meil | Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, Canada |
| 10:40-11:00 | Life-Cycle Assessment of Road Pavements Containing Marginal Materials: Comparative Analysis Based on a Real Case Study | Marco Pasetto/Andrea Baliello | University of Padua, Italy |
| 11:00-11:20 | Comparative Eco-Efficiency Analysis between HIPR and M&F | Ruijun Cao/Zhen Leng | PolyU, Hong Kong |
| 11:20-11:40 | Environmental Assessment and Economic Analysis of Porous Pavement at Sidewalk | Hao Wang | Rutgers, USA |
| 11:40-12:00 | A New England LCA Framework for Pavement Maintenance/Preservation | Eshan Dave | UNH, USA |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session: Incorporating LCA in the Design and Management of Pavement Systems (Moderator: Navneet Garg) | |||
| 13:00-13:20 | Capitalizing Green Pavement: A Method and Valuation | Qingbin Cui/David F. Choy | UMD, USA |
| 13:20-13:40 | A Methodology for Sustainable Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design | Neveen Talaat | LSU, USA |
| 13:40-14:00 | Applications of LCA for Network-Level Pavement Management | Gerardo Flintsch | Virginia Tech, USA |
| 14:00-14:20 | U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Effort on Sustainability and LCA | James Allen | CERL, USA |
| 14:20-14:40 | Implementation of Life Cycle Thinking in Planning and Procurement at the Swedish Transport Administration | Susanna Toller | STA, Sweden |
| 14:40-15:00 | FHWA Sustainable Pavements Program: Advancing LCA | Heather Dylla | FHWA, USA |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break and Poster Session | ||
| Panel and Discussions (Moderators: Imad L. Al-Qadi/John Harvey) | |||
| 15:30-17:30 | 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) | |