Whole-Life Carbon in Highway Schemes: What Assessment Boundaries Do to the Answer
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22661946Keywords:
Whole-Life Carbon in Highway Schemes; Smart infrastructure; Evidence synthesis; Asset management; Structural health monitoringAbstract
Whole-Life Carbon in Highway Schemes is an area of active development in smart and resilient infrastructure engineering, with
evidence that has accumulated unevenly across its component questions. We review the current evidence base for whole-life
carbon in highway schemes, spanning methodological, implementation, governance, and cost dimensions, focusing on where
practice has converged and where it continues to vary, and set out the practical considerations relevant to an agency considering
its adoption. We conclude that selective, context-specific use is best supported by the evidence currently available, rather than
uniform adoption or avoidance.
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