Integrating Sustainability into Highway Projects: Sustainability Indicators and Assessment Tool for Michigan Roads

Studies have shown that nation's conventional highways are unsustainable in many aspects. Highways are facing severe challenges, such as deteriorating condition, congestion, energy supply and shortfall of funding for maintenance and capacity expansion to meet increasing demand. At the same time, they consume huge amount of exhaustible natural minerals and energy, and generate waste and emission which deteriorate global environment contributing to climate changes and reduction of the earth's sustaining capacity. Therefore, sustainable highway construction, maintenance and operations have become a prime concern these days. The study examines various research findings and best management practices in road construction industry including some established rating tools for building and some newly proposed tools for road. Finally, it identifies Indicators for sustainable roads for Michigan and develops a sustainability assessment tool to evaluate those indicators that can be expressed as a single comparable index as an end product.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/41167(398)94
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780784411674
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2011 ASCE
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Dhakal, Krishna P.
  • Oh, Jun S.
• Conference:
  • First Congress of Transportation and Development Institute (TDI)
  • Location: Chicago IL, United States
  • Date: 2011-3-13 to 2011-3-16
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Monograph Title: Transportation and Development Institute Congress 2011 : Integrated Transportation and Development for a Better Tomorrow

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Assessments; Deterioration; Environmental risk assessment; Highway maintenance; Highway operations; Highways; Road construction; Sustainable development
• Geographic Terms: Michigan
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01347264
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784411674
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Aug 8 2011 2:10PM