Work Package 5
Life Cycle Engineering approach to develop a novel EU-harmonized sustainability certification system for cost-effective, safer and greener road infrastructures

Work Package 5: Validation of the LCE4ROADS methodology and the associated software tool

To validate the methodology and associated software tool by cross-checking it with data from real cases provided from National Road Administrations, analyzing the LCE4ROADS achieved and the recommendations the software may suggest to improve the achieved label in terms of innovation, green profile, cost-effectiveness and long-term behaviour. This includes the following tasks:

  • To select real road project cases to obtain reliable for the necessary evaluation and comparison while covering the widest European area as possible and properly validate the methodology and associated software tool.
  • To evaluate by using the defined methodology and associated software tool the real road construction and maintenance projects analysed in WP1, which have already been executed to compare their real data with outputs from the software tool.
  • To evaluate the main green, cost-effective, technical and socio-economic recommendations and suggestions provided by the methodology and software tool

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