Road Asset Management for Sustainable Development

The lack of appropriate and timely maintenance produces increase in the cost of future treatments and vehicle operating costs with negative impact on environment in terms of use of natural resources, GHG emission and energy consumption. There is a need to provide recommendations for Road Asset Management leading identify and prioritize measures that effectively address Mobility, Safety and Environmental sustainability. The paper object is to augment environmental sustainability and resource efficiency issues in Road Asset Management with particular emphasis on pavement maintenance. The pavement issues which have the greatest potentialities for an environmental sustainable and resource efficient Road Asset Management, are presented in the paper.