Sustainable Highways, Pavements and Materials Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan

Sustainable Highways, Pavements and Materials

Author: Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan

Publisher: Transdependenz LLC

Publication Date: 15 April, 2011

ISBN: 9781937145002

Pages: 238

Subjects: Technology and engineering, Transportation

Available as: , E-Book - Adobe PDF; Open Ebook, 978-1-937145-00-2

Description:

The worldwide increase in emphasis on sustainability and the environment necessitates a holistic examination of how highways and pavements can be designed, constructed, operated, maintained, preserved and recycled in a more economically, environmentally, and socially sound manner. Rapidly depleting natural resources, anthropogenic climate change implications and increasing financial pressures are some crucial challenges today’s and tomorrow’s transportation engineers are faced with. A better understanding of the art and science of sustainable highway and pavement engineering will equip them to effect positive economic, environmental, and social change while balancing competing interests.Sustainable Highways, Pavements and Materials provides introductory and yet up-to-date coverage of latest technologies, practices and initiatives related to the contemporary application of sustainability principles during all phases of a pavement’s life cycle. Researchers, practitioners, educators and students with an interest in transportation infrastructure will find this book a practical reference that explores various aspects of sustainable highways and pavements, including materials, design, construction, and life-cycle analysis.