A more extensive use of recycled aggregate in road construction is key to meeting the
ambitious targets of the EU circular economy action plan. However, scepticism among …

The utilization of hot mix asphalt (HMA) for road construction necessitates high temperatures
during mixing bitumen and aggregate at asphalt plant. The required (mixing) production …

This paper provides an overview of the artificial neural network (ANN) model development
with the objective of successfully predicting natural gas consumption in the process of hot …

Purpose Current asphalt pavement life cycle assessment implementation limitations are in
part linked to data availability. On top of this, there is currently a trend towards the creation of …

Asphalt production plants play an important role in the field of civil engineering, but also in
the entire economic system since the construction of roads enables uninterrupted …

The oscillation of asphalt mix composition on a daily basis significantly affects the achieved
properties of the asphalt during production, thus resulting in conducting expensive …

At the initiation and design stage, the stakeholders (owners and planners) are faced with the
choice to determine which type of pavement will be used in accordance with the budget …

Asphalt cement will not last long as the world encounters a diminishment in crude oil. Novel
resources can contribute to replacing asphalt with the sustainable, flexible pavement. This …

This paper presents the potential energy savings and how to achieve sustainability by
predicting the temperature of aggregate stockpiles in the production process of asphalt …

LCA has been utilized over the past two decades to estimate the environmental impacts of
pavement in infrastructures. The purpose of this study is to systematically map research on …