The infrastructure is essential for the economy of a country and a Long-Life Pavements (LLP) concept has been developed to build more cost-effective pavements in meeting the present socio-economic requirements. In practice the LLP-concept significantly extends the current pavement design life by restricting distress in the pavement surface to achieve low life-cycle costs. A Long-Life Pavement is defined as a pavement where no significant deterioration will develop in the foundations or the road base layers provided that correct surface maintenance is carried out. This definition implies that all pavement layers, except the road surface layer are considered as permanent pavement layers and common distress mechanisms should, in principle, be eliminated completely. Well designed and well constructed asphalt pavements according to the Long-Life Pavement concept show service lives of more than 50 years. This paper gives a state-of-the-art regarding developments in long-life asphalt pavements. It describes the construction of new pavement structures and the different asphalt mixtures that can be used in building a Long-Life Asphalt Pavement. The basic principles of pavement design are described as well as the concept of LLP in the design procedure. Also the construction and the maintenance of LLP will be addressed. The final design of a LLP depends on local conditions such as sub-grade type, present and future traffic volumes and materials available. Chapter 3 describes the economic aspects. When the availability of road lanes and the road user delay costs are taken into account in the cost-benefit analyses of pavements it will show that a number of highways in densely populated areas require low maintenance pavements. A total reconstruction of a road pavement is hardly possible or even impossible. Low life-cycle costs can be obtained by optimizing maintenance activities, delay and environmental costs. For Long-Life Pavement the recommended life cycle periods for short, medium and long term analysis are in the order of 25, 50 and 100 years respectively. Procurement and specification issues are addressed in Chapter 4. The technical and functional requirements for LLP will in general be higher compared to traditional pavements. This could be achieved by prescribing functional specifications instead of technical specifications. Then it is up to the contractor to show that a solution meets the requirements. In this way several solutions can be considered by the contractor to optimize the construction. For a Long-Life Pavement (where no significant deterioration will develop in the foundations or in the road base layers provided that correct surface maintenance is carried out) the durability of the surface layer is the dominant factor for the pavement surface life. The choice of the surface layer depends on the functional requirements. This could be a combination of comfort, durability, stability, skid resistance and noise reduction. A wide range of bituminous surface layer products can be considered appropriate depending on specific requirements. The selection of surface course is a matter of identifying the most appropriate materials during the design life. The annex of this paper gives an overview of the different asphalt mixtures that can be used for surface layers. An overview of the expected durability of these surface layers is shown. The data are based on a questionnaire and a panel discussion of experts and show amongst other things the "European average" of the service life of the different asphalt surface layers.