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Roads are a material-intensive system with an ever-increasing material demand as evidenced by 700,000 km of new roads built every year. Moreover, its particularly long service life of several decades implies maintenance needs with additional materials and energy consumption to secure vehicle safety and transport comfort. Meanwhile, climate actions and sustainable strategy in the infrastructure sector [...]

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The use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) materials in bituminous surface course mixtures provides significant environmental and economic benefits, and can contribute to promoting sustainability principles and the circular economy. Currently in Ireland, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) permit the use of RAP up to 30% in base and binder course mixtures but do not permit the use of RAP in [...]

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Following the increased interest around the use of recycled and more sustainable materials to support the growth of the ever-expanding transport infrastructure industry in Australia, Austroads has coordinated a national research project on the use of recycled plastics in asphalt roads. There are approximately 3.2 million tonnes of waste plastics generated in Australia annually, of which a considerable [...]

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The interest in the reuse of RAP (Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement) in new high performance asphalt mixtures is growing: especially when such RAP comes from old surfaces based on the use of modified binders. Based on the background and experiences reported by the author in previous congresses, the purpose of the present work and continuing with what has been done, is to share the results of the first test [...]

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In road paving, solar pavement is being developed worldwide against the backdrop of the Paris Agreement, which set a long-term goal of mitigating climate change by 2050 and beyond, SDGs, carbon neutrality and other initiatives. In addition to providing traveling space, pavement, which covers a certain size of surface area in cities and regions, has the potential to generate new values to create renewable [...]

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Infrastructure maintenance is an integral part of decarbonisation solutions. Optimised maintenance can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, taking into account the whole life cycle of road infrastructure. The objective of this study is to quantify the effect of pavement maintenance on greenhouse gas emissions. The study is based on a comparison of the carbon footprint of optimised maintenance versus [...]

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The reusing material of the existing deteriorated pavement for producing the layers with better quality leads to significant reduction of the carbon footprint of road pavements and saving of the nature. The obvious intention is to do this to the highest degree. The paper documented the successful reconstruction of old cement concrete pavement by implementation of the hydraulically bound base layer [...]

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The aim of ASTM is to be a protagonist in ecological mobility by promoting technological and ecological transition through innovations implemented on its motorway assets, with the goal to make such infrastructures safer, smarter and more sustainable. ASTM’s concessionaire company, SATAP, has presented an economic financial plan for the period 2023-2026 (“EFP 2023-26”) aimed at transforming the [...]

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One of the most important issues of today is undoubtedly the reduction of the carbon footprint of the construction products that are commonly available on the market. As in other industries, alternative production methods are constantly being sought in road construction to contribute to the overall reduction of CO2 emissions. This paper is focused on an up-to-date experience in reducing the carbon [...]

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The Danish Road Directorate (DRD) has over the past 10 years worked on developing and implementing a strategy to lower the energy consumption of vehicles by optimizing the pavement surface characteristics. For this purpose, a special type of Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA), also referred to as “Climate Friendly Asphalt” (KVS), was developed focusing on the listed targets: i) reducing rolling resistance, [...]

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This paper presents the studies carried out so far within the scope of an ongoing project funded by the European Union and the Portugal 2020 program, with the title CoolAsphalt. The project aims to develop asphalt mixture products based on fully recycling RAP and waste cooking oil as a rejuvenator for low to medium-traffic roads. In Portugal, those types of roads are about 75.000 km. Over the last [...]

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A simple laboratory tire- and road-wear particle (TRWP)-generation system was developed to generate and quantify the amount of TRWP. In a closed environmental chamber, a single cylindrical road-pavement specimen was installed at the center of a steel plate and rotated at 80 km/h, while applying three tires loads located at 0°, 120°, and 240° around the cylindrical specimen. And, a particulate matter [...]

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Sustainability is becoming a “buzzword” in the construction sector. A comprehensive search for sustainable solutions has already begun. Quite often, only some aspects are included in the assessment of sustainability. Contrary, from a holistic point of view the whole life cycle of any solution must be analysed, considering all dimensions of sustainability, which include ecology, economy, and social [...]

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In the road pavement, the subbase layer plays a key role in supporting the upper layers and transferring traffic loads to the subgrade. The subbase is usually made up of selected and compacted unbound natural granular aggregate. However, in more trafficked roadways, cement-stabilized materials are traditionally employed to enhance mechanical properties, especially when recycled aggregates from construction [...]

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The construction industry is one of the world's largest consumers of raw materials. It is also recognized as the locomotive sector in Turkiye. However, the harsh consuming process of the construction sector makes sustainability an obligation for developed countries. In this regard, as the world's eighth largest steel producer, use of steel slag as artificial aggregate in highway construction is started [...]

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The interest in reducing the manufacturing temperature of hot bituminous mixtures has its origins in two different events with different objectives: on the one hand, the discussions on environmental protection measures in the United Nations since 1992 and, on the other hand, the establishment and revision of limits for exposure to high temperature bitumen emissions for the protection of personnel [...]

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With an increased focus on sustainable pavement construction, recycling of various waste materials into asphalt mixtures is becoming more common. Materials currently being recycled in this way include recycled asphalt millings, crumbed tyre rubber, crushed glass and various waste plastics. In terms of waste plastics in asphalt mixtures, some plastics are intended to pre-coat the aggregate particles, [...]

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There is an urgent need to reduce CO2-emissions; not only to meet national, EU or similar targets of reduction, but to mitigate climate change altogether. In this context, the transportation sector can and must contribute with initiatives to reduce CO2. For this contribution, there is a need to deliver specific values for current CO2-emssions of all phases related to infrastructure projects and [...]

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Recent developments in the geopolitical, climatic and societal contexts are contributing to tension in the energy markets. Faced with these tensions, energy sobriety and the search for alternative energy resources are at the heart of the concerns of households, companies and institutions. Faced with this demand, supply is sometimes difficult to analyze: the lack of information on the availability [...]

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In Japan, concrete waste is primarily recycled as granular subbase course material but is not sufficiently processed. As a result, new technologies that can be effectively used in processing waste concrete must be developed. Conversely, due to financial and management constraints, Japan’s declining birthrate, aging population, and a massive stock of pavements have created a need to extend pavement [...]

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Since 2016, the Easing Sydney’s Congestion Program Office (ESCPO) within Transport for NSW has been implementing various technologies and methodologies to deliver an extensive program of urban arterial road upgrade projects in a sustainable and efficient way. While the main ESCPO goals have focused on improving traffic flows and trip reliability and safety, the opportunity to use ESCPO as a platform [...]

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Concrete is currently one of the most widely used materials in the construction of pavements and additional works. However, the continuous growth in the demand for this material generates ecological havoc since the raw materials are exploited in an uncontrolled and sometimes unregulated manner, which causes negative impacts on the environment. On the other hand, plastics have become an essential part [...]

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Abstract This paper presents the newly developed warm mix asphalt (WMA) containing very high-content reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) utilizing both asphalt forming technology (AFT) and special additives. Asphalt is the most recycled material at a re-use rate of 99% and very high-content RAP of 60% or more is used in a given asphalt mix design in Japan. In recent, several advantages of WMA utilizing [...]