Life-Cycle Cost Analyses for Road Barriers

Karim, Hawzheen; Magnusson, Rolf; Natanaelsson, Kenneth

doi:10.1061/(asce)te.1943-5436.0000391

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“…With the handbook giving it a good start, the LCC developed dynamically in other industries, primarily in aviation, power sector, chemical industry and rail [5]. With time the method proved useful for assessing the costs of road infrastructure life cycle for a variety of structures, durability and service life [2,6,7].…”

Section: Development Of Methods For Assessing Life Cycle Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The LCC life cycle cost assessment method is a general method which helps to: specify and compare the particular elements of asset costs and compare construction alternatives and product alternatives, etc. LCC life cycle cost assessment methods can be divided into two groups: analytical and parametric (practical) methods [2].…”

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“…Safety barrier crashes are frequent with more than 2% of collisions in Poland involving vehicles hitting a barrier as study results show. Based on this it is estimated that the costs to replace damaged parts of barriers during their working life (maintenance, repairs, replacement, modernisation, maintaining proper safety standards) exceed the construction costs significantly [2]. As a result, methods and solutions are investigated to improve cost effectiveness and reduce the costs of maintenance and use of existing roads and road safety devices.…”

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Proposed method for estimating the costs of safety barrier life cycle

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Today barrier types are frequently selected for their price with little regard for the total costs the structure will incur over its lifetime. One of the basic tools designed to manage road infrastructure is the life cycle cost method (LCC, Life cycle cost). It sums up the costs to plan, design, build, operate (use and maintain) and decommission a road structure. Having developed dynamically at the turn of the century the method is now widely applied in a number of industries including traffic engineering. Today, depending on data availability and calculation complexity, two groups of life cycle assessments are distinguished: analytical and parametric. Unfortunately, each comes with some limitations and the search for a new universal life cycle cost calculation method continues. The authors propose their own general concept of a method for estimating the life cycle costs of road safety barriers. The article presents a multi-stage process to build the method which is based on international experience and real test site data.

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“…There are no reliable data on the maintenance and use of road safety devices due to the fact that the majority of road managers do not have a suitable method for systematic data collection. There are no accurate models of road structure aging to take account of progress of civilization (including increasing annual volumes of traffic) [11] or to consider changes in the cost calculation.…”

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Methods of estimating the cost of traffic safety equipment’s life cycle

Grzyl¹,

Kristowski²,

Jamroz³

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Abstract. In the article, the authors discuss the preliminary information necessary to determine the scope and direction of further research conducted within the project called "The influence of time and operating conditions on the durability and functionality of road safety elements". The main objective of the project is to develop the concept of a method for optimizing the life cycle costs of road safety devices. The authors draw attention to the close connection between the decisions taken at the design stage and expenses incurred in the course of maintenance and the use of road safety devices, present the specificity of road infrastructure in terms of life cycle costs, discuss the components of the costs and give examples of the LCC analysis applied to the concrete barrier.

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“…Frequency and scope of maintenance and repair works depends on the vitality of the steel elements affected by the adopted design standards, the quality of the construction, the established quality of maintenance, also are associated with corrosion protection and aesthetic appearance. In practice, methods and solutions are being sought to increase the efficiency of incurred expenditures and reduce the costs of maintenance of steel structures [3,7,12]. In many EU documents promoting sustainable development under the Europe 2020 strategy, LCC (Life Cycle Cost) is the basis for decision making.…”

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The Cost Analysis of Corrosion Protection Solutions for Steel Components in Terms of the Object Life Cycle Cost

Kowalski

Grzyl

Kristowski

2017

Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports

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A b s t r a c tSteel materials, due to their numerous advantages -high availability, easiness of processing and possibility of almost any shaping are commonly applied in construction for carrying out basic carrier systems and auxiliary structures. However, the major disadvantage of this material is its high corrosion susceptibility, which depends strictly on the local conditions of the facility and the applied type of corrosion protection system. The paper presents an analysis of life cycle costs of structures installed on bridges used in the road lane conditions. Three anti-corrosion protection systems were considered, analyzing their essential cost components. The possibility of reducing significantly the costs associated with anti-corrosion protection at the stage of steel barriers maintenance over a period of 30 years has been indicated. The possibility of using a new approach based on the life cycle cost estimation in the anti-corrosion protection of steel elements is presented. The relationship between the method of steel barrier protection, the scope of repair, renewal work and costs is shown. The article proposes an optimal solution which, while reducing the cost of maintenance of road infrastructure components in the area of corrosion protection, allows to maintain certain safety standards for steel barriers that are installed on the bridge.

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Life-Cycle Cost Analyses for Road Barriers

Cited by 15 publications

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Proposed method for estimating the costs of safety barrier life cycle

Proposed method for estimating the costs of safety barrier life cycle

Methods of estimating the cost of traffic safety equipment’s life cycle

The Cost Analysis of Corrosion Protection Solutions for Steel Components in Terms of the Object Life Cycle Cost

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