"Green-friendly" best management practices (BMPs) for interstate rest areas.

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• Creators:
  El-Rayes, K. ; Liu, L. ; Abdallah, M.
• Corporate Creators:
  Illinois Center for Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Environmental impacts
  • Interstate highways
  • Roadside rest areas
  • Decision making
  • Best practices
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Roadside rest areas
  • Express highways
  • Decision making
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-ICT-11-082
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Illinois
• Corporate Publisher:
  Illinois. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  This report presents the findings of a research project to study and develop a list of “green friendly” Best ; Management Practices (BMPs) for Illinois interstate rest areas. The objectives of this project are to (1) develop ; energy and cost baseline data for the 53 rest area buildings in Illinois by gathering utility use statements and ; other pertinent data for a one-year period for each building and utilize the data to compute the carbon footprint ; of each building; (2) perform on-site assessment of existing conditions in three selected rest areas; (3) conduct ; a comprehensive literature review on green design and sustainable construction, available energy saving ; alternatives, LEED certification requirements, and decision-making and optimization techniques that can be ; used for optimizing upgrade decision of rest area buildings; (4) investigate potential energy saving alternatives ; for the selected rest areas and study their cost savings and environmental impact; (5) conduct Life Cycle Cost ; Analysis (LCCA) for the suggested green friendly measures and generate a report detailing their overall costs ; and payback periods; (6) investigate the requirements and possibilities for the rest areas to achieve LEED ; certification under the LEED rating system for existing buildings; (7) develop a Decision Support Tool (DST) to ; identify optimal upgrade decisions for rest area buildings; and (8) develop recommendations for upgrading the ; three selected rest areas. To achieve these objectives, the research team carried out six major tasks: (1) ; developed energy cost baseline data and carbon footprint for each Illinois rest area; (2) performed onsite ; assessment for three selected rest areas; (3) conducted comprehensive literature review; (4) identified potential ; green-friendly best management practices; (5) developed a Decision Support Tool (DST) for optimizing LEED ; upgrade decisions of rest area buildings; and (6) developed recommendations for upgrading the three selected ; rest areas.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21895/dot_21895_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 10.60 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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