Sustainable highways: oxymoron or opportunity

Building upon recent trends in the transportation community that embrace environmental stewardship, context sensitivity, and a life-cycle approach to engineering and asset management, the concept of �Sustainable Highways� offers a positive and proactive approach to guide the development and delivery of highways and highway-related services. It provides a broad framework that places conservation and community enhancement on the same plane as functionality and efficiency. It is a philosophy that is driven by the need to explore opportunities from an inter-disciplinary perspective in collaboration with stakeholders before converging prematurely on what may be inappropriate or incomplete solutions. It is an approach that fosters the creation of opportunities to provide sustainable outcomes as well as functional solutions that result in highways �better than before� from many different perspectives. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E212706.

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• Authors:
  • KASSOFF, H
• Publication Date: 2004-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 14P
• Monograph Title: Sustainable planning and network management
• Serial:
  • TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE LAND TRANSPORT CONFERENCE, 2004, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
  • Publisher: NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE OF HIGHWAY TECHNOLOGY (NZIHT)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Development; Environment; Highways; Policy; Road construction; Sustainable development
• Uncontrolled Terms: Quality
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 9013: Development; 2455: Environment; 2755: Highway; 173: Policy; 9063: Quality; 3665: Road construction; 2427: Sustainability
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01023999
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0478105606
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: May 18 2006 8:22AM