Economics Rescources

The Economic Value of Pavement Overlay Alternatives

The majority of the US highway roadway system has been completed for many years, thus requiring agency resources to be focused on maintaining and rehabilitating existing pavements. Economic analysis of pavements must consider initial costs, design life, maintenance costs over the life of the pavement and salvage value at the end of its life-cycle. This case study examines five pavement rehabilitation methods for asphalt roadways using equivalent 20-year pavement overlay designs in contrast to the 40-year life cycle designs traditionally used for new construction and full-depth reconstruction. These designs will be judged under the scrutiny of the economic value of the pavement from the beginning to the end of the 20-year pavement life-cycle.

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• WARM MIX ASPHALT IN MN (July 2011)

• 20 REASONS TO USE ASPHALT (July 2011)

• THE ASPHALT ADVANTAGE (April 2011)

• MAINTENANCE, PRESERVATION, AND EQUITY OF ASPHALT PAVEMENTS (August 2010)

• THE ASPHALT ADVANTAGE (June 2009)

• LIFE CYCLE COST ANALYSIS (June 2007)

• THE FUTURE OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (May 2007)

• ASPHALT PAVEMENT IS STILL THE BEST VALUE (May 2007)

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• ASPHALT IS BEST (June 2006)

• WHICH OF THESE CLAIMS BEING MADE ABOUT ASPHALT PAVEMENT DO YOU FIND BELIEVABLE? (April 2006)

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USER-FRIENDLY SOFTWARE IS AVAILABLE

User-friendly software for designing Perpetual Pavements, PerRoad 3.5 and PerRoadXpress 1.0; and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA), LCCA Original and LCCAExpress, are available for free. There are versions of these software programs for every traffic level (high volume and low volume). Download this free software at: www.AsphaltRoads.org