Green infrastructure.

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• Creators:
  McCormack, Sarah M. ; Sturgill, Roy ; Howell, Brian ; Van Dyke, Chris ; Kreis, Doug
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Kentucky Transportation Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  Kentucky. Transportation Cabinet ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Sustainable development
  • Infrastructure
  • Construction projects
  • Project management
  • Policy analysis
  • Case studies
• Publication/ Report Number:
  KTC -14-10/SPR447-12-1F
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Kentucky
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Kentucky Transportation Center
• Abstract:
  The transportation industry has increasingly recognized the vital role sustainability serves in promoting and ; protecting the transportation infrastructure of the nation. Many state Departments of Transportation have ; correspondingly increased efforts to incorporate concepts of sustainability into the planning, design, and ; construction phases of projects and congruently adopted sustainability measures into their internal standard ; policies and procedures. Sustainably constructed highways foster economic development, promote stewardship ; of the environment, and solicit citizen involvement for an integrated, comprehensive approach to project ; planning. As part of an effort to understand the extent to which sustainable design and construction principles ; are being used, this report selects and analyzes three case studies involving previously completed KYTC projects ; and assesses their commitment to sustainable concepts. Specifically, this report examines the extent to which ; KYTC utilized sustainable concepts for each case study as described in FHWA’s INVEST rating system. This ; research effort comprised three components. First, KTC researchers analyzed KYTC’s policies and manuals for ; project planning, design, and construction and determined the extent to which INVEST criteria and related ; principles were incorporated into their standard processes. Second, KTC analyzed the individual case studies ; themselves, to include project plans and other relevant documentation. Finally, KTC conducted interviews with ; each of the KYTC district offices responsible for managing those previously completed projects and obtained ; feedback on the INVEST criteria used for each particular project. Following this approach, KTC validated and ; finalized the assigned scoring ratings for each case study in accordance with the INVEST scoring guidance. In ; summary, this report describes the sustainable concepts and corresponding INVEST scores for each project, ; presents a summary of the main findings, and provides recommendations for the way ahead.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28187/dot_28187_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.53 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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