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Society needs to travel to engage in productive and effective
commerce, social, educational and related activities. Efficient
travel is founded on an operational transport infrastructure system
that is well-designed, engineering, constructed and maintained.
This volume shares some of the latest innovations and thoughts in
the areas of pavement infrastructure materials, behavior and
performance. Access to this volume should enable the reader to gain
an understanding of such novel information that should support
improvements in the provision of an effective road transportation
system for the benefit of the greater society served by the road
network. The content is based on the contributions to the 6th
GeoChina International Conference on Civil & Transportation
Infrastructures: From Engineering to Smart & Green Life Cycle
Solutions -- Nanchang, China, 2021.
Climate change, energy production and consumption, and the need to
improve the sustainability of all aspects of human activity are key
inter-related issues for which solutions must be found and
implemented quickly and efficiently. To be successfully
implemented, solutions must recognize the rapidly changing
socio-techno-political environment and multi-dimensional
constraints presented by today’s interconnected world. As
part of this global effort, considerations of climate change
impacts, energy demands, and incorporation of sustainability
concepts have increasing importance in the design, construction,
and maintenance of highway and airport pavement systems. To
prepare the human capacity to develop and implement these
solutions, many educators, policy-makers and practitioners have
stressed the paramount importance of formally incorporating
sustainability concepts in the civil engineering curriculum to
educate and train future civil engineers well-equipped to address
our current and future sustainability challenges. This book will
prove a valuable resource in the hands of researchers, educators
and future engineering leaders, most of whom will be working in
multidisciplinary environments to address a host of next-generation
sustainable transportation infrastructure challenges. "This book
proposes a broad detailed overview of the actual scientific
knowledge about pavements linked to climate change, energy and
sustainability at the international level in an original
multidimensional/multi-effects way. By the end, the reader will be
aware of the whole global issues to care about for various pavement
technical features around the world, among which the implications
of modelling including data collection, challenging resources
saving and infrastructures services optimisation. This is a
complete and varied work, rare in the domain." Dr. Agnes Jullien
Research Director Director of Environmental, Development, Safety
and Eco-Design Laboratory (EASE) Department of Development,
Mobility and Environment Ifsttar Centre de Nantes Cedex- France
“An excellent compilation of latest developments in the field of
sustainable pavements. The chapter topics have been carefully
chosen and are very well-organized with the intention of equipping
the reader with the state-of-the-art knowledge on all aspects of
pavement sustainability. Topics covered include pavement Life Cycle
Analysis (LCA), pervious pavements, cool pavements, photocatalytic
pavements, energy harvesting pavements, etc. which will all be of
significant interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of
pavement engineering. This book will no doubt serve as an
excellent reference on the topic of sustainable
pavements.” Dr. Wei-Hsing Huang Editor-in-Chief of International
Journal of Pavement Research and Technology (IJPRT) and Professor
of Civil Engineering National Central University Taiwan
Climate change, energy production and consumption, and the need to
improve the sustainability of all aspects of human activity are key
inter-related issues for which solutions must be found and
implemented quickly and efficiently. To be successfully
implemented, solutions must recognize the rapidly changing
socio-techno-political environment and multi-dimensional
constraints presented by today's interconnected world. As part of
this global effort, considerations of climate change impacts,
energy demands, and incorporation of sustainability concepts have
increasing importance in the design, construction, and maintenance
of highway and airport pavement systems. To prepare the human
capacity to develop and implement these solutions, many educators,
policy-makers and practitioners have stressed the paramount
importance of formally incorporating sustainability concepts in the
civil engineering curriculum to educate and train future civil
engineers well-equipped to address our current and future
sustainability challenges. This book will prove a valuable resource
in the hands of researchers, educators and future engineering
leaders, most of whom will be working in multidisciplinary
environments to address a host of next-generation sustainable
transportation infrastructure challenges. "This book proposes a
broad detailed overview of the actual scientific knowledge about
pavements linked to climate change, energy and sustainability at
the international level in an original
multidimensional/multi-effects way. By the end, the reader will be
aware of the whole global issues to care about for various pavement
technical features around the world, among which the implications
of modelling including data collection, challenging resources
saving and infrastructures services optimisation. This is a
complete and varied work, rare in the domain." Dr. Agnes Jullien
Research Director Director of Environmental, Development, Safety
and Eco-Design Laboratory (EASE) Department of Development,
Mobility and Environment Ifsttar Centre de Nantes Cedex- France "An
excellent compilation of latest developments in the field of
sustainable pavements. The chapter topics have been carefully
chosen and are very well-organized with the intention of equipping
the reader with the state-of-the-art knowledge on all aspects of
pavement sustainability. Topics covered include pavement Life Cycle
Analysis (LCA), pervious pavements, cool pavements, photocatalytic
pavements, energy harvesting pavements, etc. which will all be of
significant interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of
pavement engineering. This book will no doubt serve as an excellent
reference on the topic of sustainable pavements." Dr. Wei-Hsing
Huang Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Pavement Research
and Technology (IJPRT) and Professor of Civil Engineering National
Central University Taiwan
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