Pavement condition has significant impact on average speed of vehicles. Pavement deterioration reduces average speed of vehicles which causes increase in fuel consumption which leads to environmental degradation and increases fuel cost. This research is based on the utilization of the concept of reduction of average Speed of vehicles and its effect on economic losses and environmental degradation due to extra fuel consumption. Two sections are considered, one for the base case scenario with good surface condition and second for the alternative case scenario with deteriorated surface condition and the Average Speed at those sections were determined for heterogeneous traffic. From the average speed of both scenarios VOC (vehicle operating cost) is calculated for the fuel consumption by Hepburn model and the CO (carbon monoxide) and NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions were calculated for both scenario. The results revealed a strong impact of average speed of vehicles on emissions and travel cost..

Author Name: Waqas Ahmad Khan 1, 2 Muhammad Alam2 Waheed Imran1, 2 Sami Ullah khan Babar2

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Keywords: Average Speed, VOC (vehicle operating cost), and Hepburn Model.

ISSN: 2456-9348

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