ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: To advance the adoption of strategies to reduce the greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions and urban heat island effects of pavement systems within California, a collaborative research project was conducted between the University of California Pavement Research Center (UCPRC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and University of Southern California (USC) to develop a tool for comparing environmental impacts of alternative decisions at the local government level in California. This paper details results of the pavement management survey, albedo of different pavement treatment materials, dynamic modeling of albedo of public pavement for different local governments in California, and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) models of such materials and common pavement surface treatments to capture their environmental impacts. This information is intended for use in the urban heat island LCA tool and for inputs into climate modeling in that tool’s use stage.
