路面需要养护，以防止其过度损坏，或使其恢复性能，然而在许多情况下，路面养护的重要性并没有得到足够的重视，它经常会被忽视或被作为低优先级处理。目前大多数的养护活动都存在预算问题，且只专注于清理损坏的路段。延期的路面养护会对环境和社会产生影响，因此可能会影响与养护相关的成本。可持续性评级工具是列举、解释和评估此类影响的好方法。目前已经为路面设计了多种评级工具，但是，路面养护与新建、扩建、改造路面等工程相比有不同的特点。本研究回顾了9 种路面可持续性评级工具，但这些工具没有一个可以完全描述养护特征，或者可以直接用于评估养护项目。因而，一个新型的用于路面养护的可持续性评级工具开始发展，这个新的工具可以用来评估单独的养护项目，并且可以提高公众对于路面养护重要性的认识。本文对其细节进行了描述，并通过示例展示了其评估过程和结果。

Pavements require maintenance to prevent undue distress or to restore performance; however, pavement maintenance and its impacts do not receive enough attention in many cases, and are either ignored or treated as a low priority. Most current maintenance activities have budget issues and only focus on removing deteriorated pavement sections. Deferred pavement maintenance has impacts on the environment and on society, and may thus affect the costs associated with maintenance. A sustainability rating tool is a good way to list, explain, and evaluate such impacts. Various sustainability rating tools have been developed for pavement; however, pavement maintenance has its own features that are different from those of the new construction, expansion, or reconstruction of pavements. This research project reviews nine sustainability rating tools for pavement, although none of these tools fully describe maintenance features or can be directly applied to evaluate maintenance projects. A new sustainability rating tool is then developed for pavement maintenance; this new tool can be used to evaluate individual projects and raise public awareness about the importance of pavement maintenance. Its details are described, and its use is demonstrated through an example to show the evaluation process and results.