Climate change impact and adaptation for highway asphalt pavements: a literature review

Abstract

For the past few decades, researchers all over the world have agreed that the service life of civil infrastructure is significantly affected by climate change. Pavement is one of these significant infrastructures that can be easily affected by climate change. However, it is well known that predicting climate change is highly complex and dynamic. Hence, a review has been done on available climate change models and the uncertainties involved in climate change prediction. This review addresses various important questions, such as (i) what climate change is, (ii) how to use climate change models, (iii) uncertainties involved in using climate change models, (iv) how climate change impacts pavement infrastructure, (v) the adaptation and mitigation strategies available, and (vi) how economic costs and emissions change due to climate change. This review is useful to understand climate change and its implications on pavement infrastructure.