Materials selection for structured horizontal road markings: financial and environmental case studies
Authors:
- Tomasz E. Burghardt,
- Anton Pashkevich
Abstract
Introduction: On majority of roads, horizontal road markings are essential safety feature that must be periodically renewed to maintain appropriate performance. Results: The use of a premium road marking system resulted in prolonged the service life as compared to a standard system, which would be financially-neutral in the long term despite much higher unit and initial costs; advantageously, 54% less glass beads and 63% less paint would be required over 10-year life cycle. When these products usage savings are recalculated into raw materials consumption, the premium system would demand about 21% more of titanium dioxide, but that would be offset by approximately 25% reduction in the consumption of acrylic resin and circa 97% reduction in organic solvents usage and emissions. Conclusions: The results from this analysis can be used by road administrators to select the best systems, by policy makers seeking minimisation of environmental impacts, and by contractors who won performance tenders.
- Record ID
- CUTa7f9c33f3c0641faa1edb657fab91600
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- European Transport Research Review, ISSN 1867-0717, e-ISSN 1866-8887
- Issue year
- 2020
- Vol
- 12
- No
- 11
- Pages
- [1-10]
- Article number
- 11
- Other elements of collation
- tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 9-10; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 51; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 12, Iss. 1
- Substantive notes
- Collection: Highlights of the 2020 Transport Research Arena conference
- Keywords in English
- horizontal road markings, durability, financial analysis, sustainability, road maintenance policy
- DOI
- DOI:10.1186/s12544-020-0397-x Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12544-020-0397-x Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 70
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTa7f9c33f3c0641faa1edb657fab91600/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTa7f9c33f3c0641faa1edb657fab91600
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