Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Software

Thank you for your interest in the FHWA's pavement design life-cycle cost analysis software product. This software provides a tool to perform LCCA for pavement selection in accordance with FHWA best practice methods. These best practices are outlined in the FHWA's "Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Primer," and the software methodology is fully documented in the FHWA's "Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in Pavement Design," publication number FHWA-SA-98-079. Both of these documents are available in electronic format on the FHWA's LCCA website (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/asstmgmt/lcca.cfm) or by request for hardcopy.

This compressed file contains the setup program for this product. This product is a Microsoft Excel 2000 spreadsheet with additional Visual Basic for Applications code to provide the graphic user interface. To use this software, you must have MS Excel 2000, or a more recent version. To install this product to your computer:

1. Save the zip file to your hard drive (.zip, 2 mb)
2. Unzip the file
3. Run the resulting file, LCCA Setup.exe
4. Additionally, ensure that MS Excel macro security is set to medium or low - you must choose to allow macros to run for this product to perform properly.

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