Creating Green Roadways: Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation

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trillion in federal, state, and local funds over a five-year period to meet transportation requirements.

Indicators often used in the roadway rating systems include runoff, materials, emissions, waste, stormwater management, environmental management system (EMS), etc. The use of polyurethane as a binder material in the production of pavement mixtures has an environmental benefit in terms of pollution from both organic contaminants and heavy metals. If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here.Creating green roadways is a cooperative process designed to foster involvement by all users of the system.

The bridge collapse got the attention of transportation departments across the country, and many realized they needed to focus more on maintaining existing assets.The test method of emission reduction efficiency of the modified asphalt and its mixture was proposed. S. roads traveled around one trillion miles per year; in 2010 this number had increased to more than three trillion miles each year. This Special Issue addresses the above issues and aims to gather recent studies that advance the knowledge about green roadways and management sustainability. The most sustainable approach to transportation would be to maximize use of existing public infrastructure, reduce people's need to drive, increase roadway connectivity, disperse traffic, and minimize the construction of new roads. In early 2009, economist Michael Hudson said, "The [US] economy has reached its debt limit and is entering its insolvency phase.

Tire—pavement interaction behaviours result in large amounts of wearing waste matter, which attaches to the surface of the pavement and is directly exposed to the surrounding environment. Although indicators in rating systems have been initiated to measure and promote the sustainability performance of roadway projects in some developed countries, applying those indicators to other regions/countries may still be difficult.In Creating Green Roadways, James and Matthew Sipes demonstrate that roads don’t have to be the enemy of sustainability: they can be designed to minimally impact the environment while improving quality of life.