Overview of pavement vehicle interaction research at the MIT concrete sustainability hub

In 2009, the US cement and concrete industries established the Concrete Sustainability Hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A primary thrust of MIT’s activities has been improving the Life Cycle Assessment practices to better quantify the environmental impacts over the life of a pavement. In their research, the MIT CSHub determined that the “use phase,” and specifically Pavement Vehicle Interaction (PVI) has a very large impact on a Pavement’s sustainability aspects. This paper will summarize the CSHub PVI research findings to date.