Environmental Assessment of Rural Road Construction in India

Yash Aryan (), Anil Kumar Dikshit () and Amar Mohan Shinde ()
Additional contact information
Yash Aryan: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Anil Kumar Dikshit: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Amar Mohan Shinde: Manipal Academy of Higher Education

A chapter in Sustainability, 2023, pp 339-359 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Construction of road pavement consumes significant quantities of raw materials and energy and involves use of heavy machineries. In India, total length of road network is 6.38 million km, out of which highest share (71%) is that of the rural roads. The main aim of this chapter is to present the development of detailed life cycle inventory for material phase and construction phase of rural road pavement, followed by evaluation of their environmental impacts. The scope of the study included the raw material extraction, the transportation of raw materials to the site and the construction of rural road using heavy machineries for a typical rural road section in Bihar, India, using GaBi software version 10.5. Maintenance and end-of-life phases were beyond the scope. The functional unit adopted was 1 km of road pavement constructed. A total of seven impact categories were considered. The pavement was constructed in three layers viz. granular sub-base layer, water-bound macadam layer and top bituminous layer. It was found that the granular sub-base layer construction had the highest contribution towards the impact on environment for all impact categories due to the high consumption of aggerates.

Keywords: Environmental impacts; Life cycle assessment; Rural road (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-031-16620-4_16

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031166204

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16620-4_16

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in International Series in Operations Research & Management Science from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().