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Title:

Carbon Footprint Cost Index: Measuring the Cost of Airport Pavement Sustainability
Cover of Carbon Footprint Cost Index: Measuring the Cost of Airport Pavement Sustainability

Accession Number:

01519177

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The airport pavement design process for construction and maintenance projects is typically only considers pavement alternatives on a basis of initial cost. With recent concern for the impact of these projects on the environment, airports are seeking to include sustainability into their pavement maintenance treatment selection decisions. The paper proposes a new decision criterion that integrates sustainability with initial cost, essentially quantifying the “bang for the buck” and permitting airport pavement managers to justify investing in higher cost treatments on a basis of enhanced sustainability. The metric is termed the carbon footprint cost index and measures the relative cost of reducing a pavement project’s carbon footprint. The paper also presents a methodology based on the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) for integrating the index into the typical airport pavement construction/maintenance project design process and demonstrates the utility of the new metric by applying it to a case study project at the Will Rogers International Airport in Oklahoma City. The paper concludes that the carbon footprint cost index provides a simple way to enhance pavement sustainability at airports across the nation. Utilizing an AHP can guide the decision as well. The AHP allows weighting of cost, performance and sustainability. Additionally, a framework for determining when to increase the budget for pavement preservation and sustainability requirements is presented to assist owners in the decision making process, using initial cost, life cycle cost, and carbon footprint.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFD10 Pavement Management Systems.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-3214

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Mosier, Rachel D
Pittenger, Dominique
Gransberg, Douglas D

Pagination:

10p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Oklahoma City (Oklahoma)

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I60: Maintenance

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-3214

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:07PM