Pavement Life Cycle Cost Analysis: The Basics (CCB-01) Course Outline

Day 1 (2 hours)

Module 1: Introduction and Overview of LCCA (55 minutes)

  • Introductions
  • LCCA overview
    • Background
    • Definition
  • LCCA process
    • Analysis period
    • Strategies and timing of alternatives
    • Agency and user costs
    • Expenditure streams
    • Compute present net worth
    • Sensitivity Analysis
    • Probabilistic vs deterministic
  • Summary and questions

Break (5 minutes)

Module 2: Introduction and use of LCCA program (55 minutes)

  • Implementation of LCCA
    • Pavement life cycle
    • Uses of LCCA
  • CCPIC LCCA program
  • Treatment lives and costs
  • LCCA Example
  • Summary and Questions

Day 2 (2 hours)

Module 2: LCCA Implementation (55 minutes)

  • Pavement life cycle
  • Uses of LCCA
  • LCCA process
  • Example-Preservation vs. rehabilitation
    • Is preservation cost effective?
    • Can evaluate this by using sensitivity analysis?

Break (5 minutes)

Module 2: Examples continued (60 minutes)

  • HMA quality control using different compaction levels
    • Effect of voids on pavement lives
    • What is the consequence of poor compaction?
  • Comparison of various preservation treatments-Cape seals
    • On stable roads
    • On poor roads
  • Comparison of rehabilitation strategies-Thick overlay vs. FDR
    • When is FDR the best treatment to use?
    • When is HMA the best treatment to use?
    • Sensitivity analysis
  • Summary and questions

Course Evaluation (post training)