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Life Cycle Cost - Asphalt Pavement Association of IndianaLife-cycle cost analysis is one of the tools by which pavement structures are evaluated and eventually selected by pavement owners. The life-cycle cost of a road includes the money spent on initial construction of a road, maintenance over its lifetime, and the costs to users for their delays during maintenance and reconstruction. Life-cycle costs of hot-mix asphalt pavements are significantly lower than those of Portland cement concrete pavements. The Federal Highway Administration has developed a procedure which can be used to calculate life-cycle costs and a convenient computer program has been developed by the Asphalt Pavement Alliance using this procedure. Click here for a free download of the life-cycle cost analysis software.
For the initial construction and over the long haul, asphalt pavement saves money on construction and maintenance. That’s the conclusion of highway engineers and departments of transportation across the country. The “life-cycle costs”—money spent on road construction and maintenance over its lifetime—are significantly lower with Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) than with concrete. Plus, maintenance on HMA pavements is a much less disruptive process. It can be completed quickly and economically. As a result, HMA pavement minimizes the often overlooked costs associated with traffic delays, detours and road closures. These user delay costs can be significant. In addition, the associated disruption and loss of customers can severely impact businesses. For more on Life Cycle Cost, click on the links below to read Asphalt Pavement Alliance information:
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