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This is a follow-up to the related article pub- for rutting and load-related fatigue crack- Typically in LCCA, costs of all activities
lished in the Spring 2005 edition of Asphalt ing. Projected service-life increases were over the analysis period are computed
magazine that discussed the new Asphalt then reported based on specific site condi- back to a net present worth (NPW),
Institute (AI) study titled Quantifying the tions of the foundation, existing pavement accounting for the discount rate over
Effects of PMA for Reducing Pavement and drainage as well as traffic and climate. time. This article uses LCCA to com-
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Distress. The results were published in AI A final part of the study showed how a pare the activity timelines of alterna-
Engineering Report (ER) 215 and summarized typical maintenance and rehabilitation tive PMA strategies provided in the
in AI Informational Series (IS) 215. schedule for unmodified HMA pavements referenced report.
could be extended with the use of PMA
his study analyzed an extensive just in the wearing surface, as well as in Assumptions made in this analysis are
collection of field performance both the wearing surface and base layers. based on constructing a 14.5-inch thick
data, making direct comparisons HMA pavement, maintenance activities
between polymer modified asphalt (PMA) The purpose of life cycle cost analysis based on Pennsylvania DOT policy, an
mixes and unmodified conventional (LCCA) is to evaluate the overall long- analysis period of 40 years and a discount
mixes. The data included 84 pairs of PMA term economic efficiency between com- rate of 4 percent. Prices and quantities
and unmodified companion test sections peting alternative investment options. assumed are shown below.
from the FHWA Long Term Pavement
Performance (LTPP) program and other
MIX PRICES (from Maryland DOT’s Pavement Selection Process)
governmental agency test sections located
across the United States and Canada. Wearing (PG 64-22) $36/ton or $1.97/sy-in
Wearing (PG76-22) $41/ton or $2.24/sy-in
While comparisons are insightful regard-
Binder and Base (PG 64-22) $35/ton or $1.91/sy-in
ing relative pavement performance differ-
ences between PMA and conventional Binder and Base (PG 76-22) $40/ton or $2.19/sy-in
mixes under similar conditions, they do Milling $1.40/sy
not directly answer the question of how HMA Patching $36/sy
much longer a pavement should be Quantities (per mile)
expected to last with PMA. To quantify Mainline: 2-lanes @12 ft. ea. 14,080sy
the expected improvement in pavement
Shoulders: 1 @ 10 ft. and 1 @ 4 ft. 8,212sy
life based on the field data, the study used
mechanistic-empirical prediction models ASSUMED PRICES AND QUANTITIES
SUMMARY OF COSTS FOR SCENARIOS 1, 2 AND 3, PLUS TWO ADDITIONAL (4&5) SCENARIOS