Evaluation criteria to support cleaner construction and repair of airport runways: A review of the state of practice and recommendations for future practice

摘要

This paper reviews the concepts of sustainability as it relates to investment evaluation and decision making in runway pavement reconstruction, widening, or repair. The discussion starts with an overview of sustainability principles applied to these runway improvements, and identifies the decision-making contexts associated with these improvements. A comprehensive and explicit definition of performance goals and the associated decision criteria is prerequisite to runway investment evaluation. Therefore, the paper proposes guidelines to assist airport agencies select appropriate decision criteria for their runway pavement investment evaluations. These guidelines address the tie between the decision criteria and sustainable development principles, as well as the desired attributes not only of individual criteria but also of any set of criteria assembled for runway investment appraisal. The authors then present three case studies of runway development to illustrate instances where airport agencies had explicitly implemented sustainability-related decision criteria. It is anticipated that inferences from these specific applications can help airport agencies assess the full consequences of their runway investment alternatives in terms of costs and benefits to the airport agency, the users (airline companies and passengers), and the community.