Comparative pavement life cycle assessment with parameter uncertainty

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 131-138

  Noshadravan, Arash ^a   Wildnauer, Margaret ^a   Gregory, Jeremy ^a   Kirchain, Randolph ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative impact assessment; Life cycle analysis; Road pavement; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PAVEMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; ROAD PAVEMENTS; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

LIFE CYCLE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PAVEMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886637820     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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