RE-ROAD – End of Life Strategies of Asphalt Pavements

FINAL CONFERENCE REGIONAL SEMINARS PROJECT RESULTS

The Re-road project aims to develop knowledge and innovative technologies for enhanced end of life strategies for asphalt road infrastructures. Such a strategy has an important impact on the energy efficiency and the environmental footprint of the European transport system and fits within the life-cycle thinking which is being introduced in waste policy at European level.  It leads to reduction of the need for new raw materials, prevents the creation of waste and the occupation of landfills and consequently minimizes the need to transport these materials to and from the work site and hence reducing energy, pollution including CO2 -emissions.
     
The project will cover the following topics that are important for the determination of an end of life strategy:

• Dismantling strategies: Impact and potentially adverse effect of different dismantling procedures on the quality of RA will be investigated.
• Characterization strategies: Improving characterization of RA and technical evaluation of RA as a raw material considering the heterogeneity of the material and considering the specific industrial process for producing the asphalt mix.
• Handling strategies: optimization of the recycling at highest possible level and for the original layer, depending on the RA characterization and environmental sound reuse or disposal of the marginal materials that can not be recycled.
• Environmental criteria: Assessment of risks and benefits to the environment with the use of RA will be developed. Special attention will be paid to potential harmful substances (like tar-containing asphalt) and life cycle analysis (LCA) will be used as a tool for this assessment.
• Cost-effective recycling: Short and long term performance, life time prediction by modeling of asphalt mixes produced with different levels RA and with different production techniques.
• Industrial processes: Study of the potentially adverse effect on the final asphalt mix quality derived from the specific method for introducing the RA in the mixing plant. How to avoid problems in the re-cycling of polymer modified RA and how to take full advantage of their special qualities.

Participants:

BRRC, Dresden University of Technology, DRI, FEHRL (CDV, IBDIM, LNEC, ZAG), Hogeschool antwerpen, LCPC, PEAB, SGI, TUB, TRL, UCD, University of Nottingham, VTI

Project coordinator:
Mr. Björn Kalman
VTI
Olaus Magnus väg 35
SE-581 95 Linköping / Sweden
Fax: +46 13-141436
E-mail: bjorn.kalman(at)vti.se
Web site: http://re-road.fehrl.org/

	Next Re-Road Project Management Group meeting on 13th September	09.08.2011
The next Re-Road Project Management Group meeting is to be held in Dresden on 13th September
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	First invitation goes out for the FERRM11 meeting	17.06.2011
FERRM11 to focus on Resources, Recycling and Alternative Materials and Implementation in Brussels on 18-19th October 2011
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	EC consultation on a Roadmap for a resource-efficient Europe	04.03.2011
The European Commission is preparing a Roadmap for a resource-efficient Europe as part of the resource-efficient Europe Flagship Initiative of the Europe 2020 Strategy.   They have launched a consultation to collect the views stakeholders on policy options for the Roadmap.
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	RE-ROAD and PERSUADE in NORDIC publication	02.07.2010
The NORDIC, Road and Transport Research magazine has published articles on two of FEHRL's projects, Re-Road and Persuade. To read the articles, please click on the titles. For further information about either of the projects, please click on the logo to take you to the projects website.    Re-road: Optimizing the Potential in Recycling of Asphalt    Persuade: EU Noise project
	TRB Seeking Expert Task Group Nominations for 2010 SHRP 2 Projects	25.08.2009
TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) is soliciting nominations for members of Expert Task Groups (ETGs) that will develop requests for proposals for individual research projects as part of SHRP 2 Capacity and Reliability focus areas activities in 2010.
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