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

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These solar roads have seen wider installation. Conversation about these sunshine roads began in 2010, thanks to a study released by Doctors Simpson, Markel, and O’Keefe. In the years since, Scott and Julie Brusaw have helmed the creation of Solar Roadways, an American company advocating for the installation of solar panels into roadways around the country. According to the current trends of road construction, how can we foresee the future of this sector? Separate from the GHP work, EPA efforts include the new Tier 4 standards for non-road diesel engines, which are to reduce exhaust emissions by more than 90 percent and eventually reduce diesel fuel sulfur content from 3,000 PPM to 15 PPM. When fully applied, the agency says, "these reductions in NOx and PM emissions from non-road diesel engines will provide enormous public health benefits. The EPA estimates that by 2030, controlling these emissions would annually prevent 12,000 premature deaths, 8,900 hospitalizations, and one million work days lost." Both Cummins and Caterpillar have promised to meet these aggressive new standards.

Research into sustainable energy’s integration into international roadways has been ongoing for nearly two decades. The various options now available still need fine-tuning, but they offer an energy-efficient view of the future. Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

The European road infrastructure sector is a key player in achieving this objective by providing appropriate solutions to make the road environment and infrastructure more sustainable, thus contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Muench ST, Anderson J, Bevan T (2010) Greenroads: a sustainability rating system for roadways. Int J Pavement Res Technol 3(5):270–279 I do not doubt there will be new design challenges ahead, but we have great multi-disciplinary design teams and with the support of the Strategic Design Panel, we will rise to these. In the developing world, every single mile of road built is associated with a significant economic return, as reduction in travel times and costs improve all factors of life. Poverty can be reduced, as it was in Laos [PDF]. Access to healthcare improves, lessening risks to pregnant woman and children, as occurred in India [PDF]. School enrollment can increase as it did in Morocco. Income and employment opportunities rise as new businesses are created along the roads, and better access to financial services increases investment towards non-agricultural industry. Land values go up, further increasing access to capital and stimulating entrepreneurial investment. And, according to the Asian Development Bank, in China's [PDF] Shaanxi province "for every CNY10,000 invested in roads, 3.2 poor people are lifted out of poverty; and for every 1 percent increase in kilometers of road per capita, household consumption increases by 0.08 percent." Hwang BG, Tan JS (2012) Green building project management: obstacles and solutions for sustainable development. Sustain Dev 20:335–349

Use innovative, natural methods to reduce imperviousness, and cleanse all runoff within the project area. Infrastructure has the power to connect communities, boost economic growth and enhance the built and natural environment. Of course, this can only be achieved if it is well designed – with people and the planet considered throughout the process. Wu P, Low SP (2010) Project management and green buildings: lessons from the rating systems. J Prof Issues in Eng Educ Pract 136(2):64–70Xia B, Zuo J, Skitmore M, Pullen S, Chen Q (2013) Green star points obtained by Australian building projects. J Archit Eng 19(4):302–308 This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. of the Greenest Roads in America | TakePart". Archived from the original on 2019-02-27 . Retrieved 2019-02-26. The Green Cross Code. The advice given below on crossing the road is for all pedestrians. Children should be taught the Code and should not be allowed out alone until they can understand and use it properly. The age when they can do this is different for each child. Many children cannot judge how fast vehicles are going or how far away they are. Children learn by example, so parents and carers should always use the Code in full when out with their children. They are responsible for deciding at what age children can use it safely by themselves.