What is it about?

Provides a rational means to pick pavement types during procurement based on actual current market pricing

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Why is it important?

Asphalt is always assumed to cost less than concrete pavement. The research showed that this assumption is flawed and that in one case 67% of the time concrete was the lower cost when the two types were bid head to head using current actual pricing.

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This page is a summary of: Life-Cycle Cost Adjustment Factors in Alternate Design/Alternative Bid Pavement Bids: Added Value or Added Controversy?, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board, April 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0361198118758030.
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