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Presented
by
Afzal Waseem
What is Sustainability?
Sustainable Highway
System
Asphalt Laye
r
Base Course
Subbase Cours
e
Subgrade
Developing Sustainable
Highway
System
System
Planning
Project Development
Life-Cycle Cost Analyses
Historical, Archaeological, and Cultural
Preservation
Reduce and Reuse Materials
Recycle Materials
Construction Waste Management
Reduced Energy and Emissions in Pavement
Materials
Operations
& Maintenance
Long-Life Pavement
Pavement Management System
Bridge Management System
Maintenance Management System
Issues in Sustainable
Highway System
Economic Sustainability
Issues in Sustainable
Highway System
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental impacts of highways construction
Pollution
Wildlife habitat disruption
Preventing absorption of
Hwy 7,
MTO
MTO Animal
water
Climate Impacts
Detection and
Emission of gasses that contribute to
Warning System
sign and flashing
Highway 540 Deer
green house effect
light
Reflectors
Vehicle emission
Resource Renewal
Use of renewable resources
Use regional materials
Build with recyclable materials
Issues in Sustainable
Highway System
Social Equity
Safer Highway System
Open graded friction course
Noise reduction
Highway 405
from QEW to
Queenston
Plaza in Central
Region
Access
Sustainable Paving
Practices
Reclaimed Asphalt Pavements
Recycling asphalt for
use in new pavements
As an aggregate in
CMA
As an fill material
Sustainability
Benefits
Reduces raw material
usage
Cuts of waste
production
Reduces cost
Sustainable Paving
Practices
Warm Mix Asphalt
Asphalt produced at lower
temperature:
Foaming asphalt binder
Additives to improve
binding
155o
C
123 oC
Sustainability
Benefits
Reduced
fuel usage, hence lower project fuel cost
Reduces harmful emissions
Comfortable working environment
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Sustainable Paving
Practices
Perpetual Pavement
Asphalt wearing
surface
Intermediate
layer
Base layer
Aggrega
te base
Subgrade
Sustainability Rating
System
MTOs GreenPave Rating System
Category
Goal
Pavement
Design
Materials
&
Technologies
Resources
Energy &
Atmosphere
Innovation &
Design Process
Poin
ts
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List of References
1. World Commission on Environment. Our common future. Centre
for Our Common Future, 1992.
2. Bryce, J. "Developing sustainable transportation infrastructure."
(2008).
3. Eisenman, Ana Athalia Plaut. "Sustainable streets and highways:
an analysis of green roads rating systems." (2012).
4. Ponniah, Joseph, Becca Lane, Pamela Marks, and Susanne Chan.
"Ontarios Experience in the Construction of Perpetual Pavement
Trials." In 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition of the
transportation Association of Canada. 2009.
5. Chan, Susanne, Becca Lane, Tom Kazmierowski, and Warren Lee.
"Pavement Preservation." Transportation Research Record:
Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2235, no. 1 (2011):
36-42.
Web Link
1. http://www.pavementinteractive.org
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Thank you!
Questions
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