The PAV-ECO Project aimed to develop economic cost models for evaluation of the life-cycle costs of pavements, and the effects on road infrastructure maintenance when new roads are added to the road network. The proposed economic cost models are intended to be applicable for the European countries, though the principles will be applicable to road networks in other countries of the world. It is hoped that the models will improve the efficiency of the decision-making process by bringing together scientific and technical excellence and inventiveness from leading countries developing life-cycle cost approaches and pavement maintenance performance models. The PAV-ECO Project had a total of six project components (work packages), comprising maintenance measures evaluation, impact of traffic change, social economic evaluation, allocation of funds, evaluation of existing vehicle operating cost models and dissemination and exploitation of the results from the project. This paper summarizes the work done in these project components, presents the outcome of the project and draws overall conclusions and recommendations from the study. (a)
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