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

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• Creators:
  El-Rayes, Khaled ; Liu, Liang ; Abdallah, Moatassem
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Roadside rest areas
  • Best practices
  • Sustainable development
  • Energy conservation
  • Energy consumption
  • Interstate highways
  • Transportation facility operations
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-ICT-13-005 ; ICT-R27-103 ; UILU-ENG-2013-2021
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Illinois
• Corporate Publisher:
  Illinois Center for Transportation
• Abstract:
  Interstate rest area buildings in Illinois range in age from 10 to nearly 50 years old and are on display and used 365 days a ; year by nearly 40 million people annually. The rest area sites comprise 53 buildings that provide restroom facilities, vending ; machines, and 11 welcome centers. These facilities are presently being maintained within the allowable budgets; however, ; they are in need of upgrades to improve their environmental and economic performance in supporting recent sustainability ; initiatives in Illinois. The main goal of this project was to investigate, determine, and recommend a list of green-friendly best ; management practices (BMPs) for the six interstate rest areas that have the highest energy consumption in Illinois. These six ; rest areas are Willow Creek, Coalfield, Great Sauk Trail, Mackinaw Dells, Cumberland Road, and Turtle Creek, which account ; for 32% of IDOT’s rest area energy bills. The main results and findings of this study include (1) an online survey of state ; departments of transportation (DOTs) conducted to gather information on their experiences in implementing green-friendly ; measures in rest areas, welcome centers, office buildings, and related buildings; (2) an investigation of installing temporary or ; permanent sub-metering systems to measure, monitor, and analyze the actual energy consumption of devices and fixtures in ; the six rest areas; (3) on-site assessments and field measurements of the six rest areas; (4) an identification of energy and ; water-saving alternatives that can be implemented in the six rest areas, including: LED and induction lighting; motion sensors ; for interior lighting, vending machines, and exhaust fans; grid-connected photovoltaic systems; solar water heaters; solar tube ; lighting; double-pane glass, vestibule entrances; Energy Star–rated HVAC systems; geothermal heat pumps; and watersaving ; plumbing fixtures; (5) an energy audit analysis for the six selected rest areas, using eQuest energy simulation software ; to analyze the impact of implementing various energy-saving alternatives; (6) an economic analysis of the identified energysaving ; alternatives for the selected rest areas in terms of their required upgrade costs, life-cycle cost, and payback periods; ; and (7) a practical and user-friendly decision support tool that is capable of identifying optimal upgrade measures for public ; buildings in Illinois to achieve a specified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED) certification with the ; minimum upgrade costs or achieve the highest LEED points within a given upgrade budget.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  R27-103
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28792/dot_28792_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.97 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e911df9e00d185a14e74699bc8d7f576ccdf5f9ff9a74dd3e0f40b0e25314e64