The Kansas Department of Transportation has developed an innovative method of rehabilitating pavements of low volume roads utilizing cold in-place recycling of the asphalt and mixing type C fly ash with the recycled material. Field test sections indicate fly ash improves constructability and moisture sensitivity as well as utilizing a by-product that currently ends up in landfills. The same field test sections have shown increased cracking with increased fly ash contents and a drop in pavement modulus with time. Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) was mixed with 3, 7, 11 and 15% fly ash and the laboratory samples were evaluated for fatigue life, durability, freeze-thaw resistance and thermal cracking. The performance of RAP mixed with asphalt emulsion and asphalt emulsion plus hydrated lime was also evaluated.

An increasing number of agencies, academic institutes, and governmental and industrial bodies are embracing the principles of sustainability in managing their activities and conducting business. Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment contains contributions to the Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment Symposium 2017 (Champaign, IL, USA, 12-13 April 2017) and discusses the current status of as well as future developments for LCA implementation in project- and network-level applications. The papers cover a wide variety of topics: - Recent developments for the regional inventory databases for materials, construction, and maintenance and rehabilitation life-cycle stages and critical challenges - Review of methodological choices and impact on LCA results - Use of LCA in decision making for project selection - Implementation of case studies and lessons learned: agency perspectives - Integration of LCA into pavement management systems (PMS) - Project-level LCA implementation case studies - Network-level LCA applications and critical challenges - Use-phase rolling resistance models and field validation - Uncertainty assessment in all life-cycle stages - Role of PCR and EPDs in the implementation of LCA Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment will be of interest to academics, professionals, and policymakers involved or interested in Highway and Airport Pavements.

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