Green Highway Research Articles

AN INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF GREEN HIGHWAY ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

In line with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, all industries are slowly moving toward a greener approach through their activities and practices. The construction industry is a major contributor to overall economic growth as it provides infrastructure and physical facilities for people. However, the activities involved have caused several environmental impacts, such as pollution, climate change, destruction of natural habitats, landfill waste, and overconsumption of global resources. Therefore, this study presents a comprehensive analysis on the infrastructure work, which is the green highway assessment. The assessment criteria and rating methods were derived from seven prominent frameworks, including Greenroads, WISE, GreenLITES, I-LAST, BE2ST, Greenroads Manual, and MyGHI. Moreover, this research evaluates these sustainable criteria across five elements of green highway development: sustainable design and construction activity, energy efficiency, environmental and water management, materials and technology, and social and safety aspects. This research adopted a systematic literature review and comparative analysis to identify commonalities, differences, and gaps in existing assessment frameworks, providing insights into the holistic evaluation of green highways and sustainable infrastructure projects. The findings of this research contribute to advancing the understanding of green highway initiatives, especially in the local context, and policy development in the field of sustainable infrastructure.

Research on the Evaluation System of Green Highway Construction

This paper studies the current situation of the development of green highways, analyzes the stages of the whole life cycle of green highways, and puts forward various evaluation indicators in the three stages of design, construction, operation and maintenance, which has certain reference value for the research of the evaluation system of green highways.

The Application of Green Highway Concept in Highway Route Selection

The Application of Green Highway Concept in Highway Route Selection

Analysis of key factors influencing green highway project development focusing on network interaction and project success: evidence from China

PurposeThis study aims to analyze the interaction and key factors within the network of factors influencing the success of green highway projects.Design/methodology/approachThrough literature review and interviews with experienced project managers, this study identified 33 influencing factors from the perspectives of stakeholders and life cycle. The interaction between these influencing factors was determined by surveying different experts, most of whom have participated in green highway projects in China. Then, social network analysis (SNA) was used to explore the impact and control ability of different factors.FindingsAccording to the prioritization of these factors, the results showed that some key factors were identified, especially incremental cost, lack of standards and regulations, development of innovative technologies and materials, public awareness and environmental protection behavior. Finally, some meaningful suggestions were put forward for different influencing factors of green highway projects.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the key influencing factors of the green highway projects have been identified by considering the interrelationships between different factors, the specific influencing paths and levels of different factors are not analyzed, more studies and methods should be conducted on this area in the future.Practical implicationsThis finding of factors influencing the success of green highway projects which is useful for managers to overcome various obstacles encountered in similar projects. Moreover, considering the interaction among the influencing factors enables managers to make systematic and efficient decisions.Social implicationsDeveloping green highways have been perceived as a major innovation to help achieve the synergy of environmental protection, economic development and social responsibility. Studying the key factors influencing the success of green highway projects and putting forward targeted suggestions are crucial for promoting the environmental protection transformation of highway construction.Originality/valueCompared with most studies on the identification of key influencing factors of construction projects, this research emphasized the interaction between different factors within the system in the analysis process. The findings could provide useful references to promote the successful implementation of green highway projects.

Integration Method for Web based Visualization Framework of Green Highway Index and Carbon Footprint Calculator

Global warming and the development of the green economy have imposed more pressure on government economies to de-carbonise their economic initiatives. This, along with the global financial crisis, has prompted a significant rethinking of digital solutions to monitor carbon emissions. Likewise, drawing investors’ investment to further development of green highways by digitised tools for infrastructure projects is crucial. However, there is a demand for integration and visualisation of green highways assessment tools, which highlights an important gap in developing data integration and web-based visualisation application. This paper presents a research proposal method to build an integrated web-based dashboard that monitors the green highway rating assessment and the Carbon Footprint. It emphasizes variables of Malaysia Green Highway Index (MyGHI) and Carbon Footprint Calculator (CFC). A framework for integrating and transforming towards visualisation of web-based dashboard is established. The integration of MyGHI-CFC to the digital level and create a web-based dashboard used different methodologies from mixed qualitative and quantitative research. The results of this integration and visualization foresee contribute to an effective example, paving researchers with effective tools and standards that will contribute to the development of the green highway and future sustainability projects.

The Importance of Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Components for Emerging Green Costs Incurred in Green Highway Budget Preparation Decision-Making

In the journey towards sustainably preserving road infrastructures, financial planning and its asset management are essential to preserve and rejuvenate at its life cycle stages efficiently. There are many methods and efforts to integrate current practices. The road components assets’ Life Cycle Cost (LCC) will have an impact in terms of more substantial cost investment since reliable cost information is rarely sufficient. The final budget of various road projects should be calculated based on the Life cycle costing, which covers both costs and revenues for the period of development until post-construction. This paper focuses on the importance of the Life cycle costing components to the green highway project, and it also responds to the sustainability of road infrastructure development literatures reported. This paper also highlights the anticipated results, leading to the identification of crucial models in creating the Life cycle costing decision-making instrument. The findings of this paper have significance in terms of encouraging stakeholders to react to green highway evolution and establish Life cycle costing as a decision-making tool.

On the Feasibility and Efficiency of Self-Powered Green Intelligent Highways

(1) Background: The present development of transport networks focusses on the better management of fuels and energy and the preservation of the environment. To fulfill these desiderates, some countries have already reconsidered the deployment plans of new highways. This research studies the feasibility of less polluting, quasi-self-powered, intelligent highway infrastructure functional blocks accommodating functions for the future introduction of smart wireless sensor grids and connected autonomous vehicles. Subject of investigation are the possibilities of energy harvesting, and the intelligent management of resources. (2) Methods: the research investigates the main technologies for energy harvesting and recommends an optimal solution. It also proposes a framework for the intelligent, AI-based management of energy and the use of an optimized backup solution relying on 5G beamforming for energy supply of the local wireless sensing network devices; (3) Results: recommendations are made for the best energy harvesting solution, an architecture of the energy management system, an algorithm for energy management and backup solution based on 5G beamforming; (4) Conclusions: the research emphasizes the advantages and drawbacks for different solutions regarding energy harvesting in an intelligent green highway scenario with a focus on the infrastructure developed to accommodate future connected and autonomous vehicles. The term “intelligent highway” must be understood in the automotive industry to describe a network of roads where cars communicate with the infrastructure and among themselves for the purpose of avoiding congestion and performing the seamless operation of services, and a space where cars and infrastructure cooperatively process information for obtaining better road safety, less pollution, and efficient energy management. With the recent recession of conventional fuel availability and the increase in prices, a solution to improving autonomy of both cars and infrastructure might be welcomed.

A Framework for Integrating Green Highway Performance Data with the Carbon Footprint Calculator in Malaysia

Highway concessionaires in Malaysia spend considerable assets in collecting, analysing and controlling different forms of data during highway projects’ life cycle. Considering this massive investment, nowadays the data use and information system reliability is becoming the key concern in terms of delivering value to consumers as opposed to the amount generated. The data generated is extensive and heterogeneous. This paper provides a new paradigm for integrating green highway performance data with carbon footprint data for green highway assessment. This framework is used to improve the active use of data in the generation of information and to assist comprehensively in decision-making at all levels of management. The network approach used in this study is the main component for interlinking data with knowledge and decisions, identifying the parameters of data integration for green highway assessment, determining the criteria data for integration, and assessing the overall performance of data usage. Real-time green highway data scenarios are used to demonstrate the applicability of this framework. A new monitoring performance measure called the MyGHI-Dashboard is proposed to control green highway assessment processes and evaluate the level of data usage, which will serve as a green highway performance scorecard. Through data-driven insights, this new paradigm can be used as a benchmarking model by highway authorities to make efficient and accurate decisions. This study is expected to become the central reference to mitigate the challenge associated with the use of highway performance data in real-time for Malaysian highway development.

Web-based dashboard of data integration for green highway performance management

Highway concessionaires in Malaysia spend considerable assets for managing different forms of data during highway projects' life cycles. In this context, and based on the use of modern technologies, an enormous volume of highway data is generated daily. These data can be utilized to extract and evaluate indicators to analyze highway green performance. Feedback from indicators allows to grasp the sustainable practices and implement corrective actions. Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information. This research adopted the approach of a centralized data provider to develop a web-based visualization dashboard, as a technique to reinforce decisions in the highway sector. The dashboard will be employed to gain information about highway green performance to enhance decisions. In this dashboard, data integration of Malaysia Green Highway Index and Carbon Footprint Calculator has been used in illustrating the visualization. The development utilized a web-based multi-programming language. The quantitative and qualitative measures were used to validate the dashboard. Findings demonstrated an increase in accuracy of data monitoring and quicker decision-making using the Dashboard. The outcome of this research will add value to the green highway development and map the highway towards a better and sustainable quality of life nationally and internationally. Furthermore, this research will pave the way for future researchers to integrate other efficient tools and parameters that contribute towards sustainable development.

Study on Energy Consumption Index System and Accounting Method of Green Highway in Water Sensitive Area of Dongting Lake

Study on Energy Consumption Index System and Accounting Method of Green Highway in Water Sensitive Area of Dongting Lake

Research on Evaluation Index System of Green Highway in Reconstruction and Expansion Projects

This study summarizes and condenses the core requirements of green road construction in the reconstruction and expansion project, systematically analyzes the three typical representative green road evaluation index systems of GreenRoads, INVEST and Green-LITES. A green highway evaluation index system including 7 first-level indicators, 20 second-level indicators, and 52 third-level indicators has been constructed, The analytic hierarchy process was used to establish a step-level model, the relative importance of each index is determined according to the judgment of experts, and the weight coefficient of each level of index is obtained. In terms of policy requirements, related technology applications, green highway development trends, and the actual construction of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway reconstruction and expansion project, the three-level indicator scoring method was determined. The green highway evaluation index system and evaluation model were used to evaluate the reconstruction and expansion project of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway from Laiwu to Linyi (Lu-Sujie). It was determined that the comprehensive score of the project was 81.2, which reaching an excellent level.

Concept of green highway and practice of green highway in Jiangxi Province

Ecological civilization construction has become an important part of national development. We must establish and practice the idea that clear water and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver, adhere to the basic state policy of resource conservation and environmental protection, form a green way of development and a way of life, firmly follow the path of civilized development with production development, a prosperous life and a sound ecology, and build a beautiful China. This article introduces the practice of green highway construction in Jiangxi Province from the connotation of green highway, promotion of green technology application, green construction technology and innovative management. Finally, the future development direction of green highway in Jiangxi province is prospected.

LCA evaluation system and benefit analysis of green Highway technology

Aiming at the problem of all kinds of green road technology is difficult to compare with, energy conservation and emissions reduction from the technical feasibility and economic benefits, etc. Build green road technologies LCA evaluation system is put forward, and with G312 Suzhou western engineering comprehensive benefit analysis as an example, the comprehensive benefit of the most significant, have scale, resource investment suitable green road technologies; the breakthrough and innovation of technical bottleneck problem is the fundamental power to promote the development of green highway. The premise of integrating green concept into the whole life cycle of highway construction is not only the preliminary planning layout research according to local conditions, but also the basis of reasonable selection of suitable green highway technology.

Design and Application of Environmental Housekeeper System in Highway Engineering

Under the context of the rapid development of green highway construction, it proposed that “green” control is the key to the construction of green highway. In this study, the authors are taking the west freeway around in Hangzhou as the study area. According to characteristics of highway construction and the existing environmental problems, the authors are taking the environmental supervision of highway construction as the research content. They studied the model of environmental housekeeper, and developed the platform.

Determinants of Green Highway Implementation Factors by Using Partial Least Squares

Malaysia was officially launched Malaysia Green Highway Index (MyGHI) manual as a guideline to confirm the green credential of a highway, this concept is at the conforming stage in Malaysia with seventeen (17) operated tolled highway projects and eleven (11) other registered and awaiting assessment for certification. Subsequently, INFRASTAR developed as an evidence-based rating system for infrastructure projects. Further measurement should be taken into account from the perspectives of highway concessions and stakeholders. Thus, this is not only to focus on the rating scores; as well as to highlight the driven factors that lead to Malaysia’s green highway implementation. The primary constructs of this research model namely green highway challenges, green highway characteristics and green highway implementation are assessed. A total of 63 surveys from 81 surveys were responded (77.8% of responses rate). The response rate was high, and there was no evidence of bias noted. The statistical result of this study corroborates the exploratory study interviewed earlier which suggested a positive relationship between green highway characteristics and green highway implementation. Besides, all the constructs represent 12.8%, 37.7% and 96.2% of factors for challenges and characteristics towards green highway implementation in Malaysia’s operated tolled highway projects, respectively. Implications and future research directions of this study are discussed.

Critical green road criteria for Malaysia green rural road index

Malaysia is on its path in adapting the green roadway system. The introduction of green road rating tools such as Malaysia Green Highway Index (MyGHI) for highways and Penarafan Hijau (pHJKR Jalan) for non-toll roads which the value of the projects are more than RM50 million are parts of the green initiatives taken towards the sustainable development in Malaysia. However, there is no specific green road rating tool focusing on rural roads in Malaysia. The rural road falls under the state road category, which contributes the largest proportion of the road network in Malaysia. The absence of specific green road rating tools for the assessment of the largest network of the road in Malaysia is seen as the gap that needs to be filled with a systematic approach. With that, this paper highlight the methodology of the study to develop a specific green road rating tool that suits the nature of rural road in Malaysia which is called Malaysia Green Rural Road Index (MyGreen RRI). It also aims to highlight a thorough comparative review of the established criteria of the existing international and local green road rating tools by using cross-national comparison. This comparative review leads to a set of proposed criteria to be used in MyGreen RRI. The analysis is later will be extended for the development of score and to be used for the assessment of MyGreen RRI. The establishment of MyGreen RRI as the later final output of is expected to benefit the nation in the environment, social and economic perspectives.

Discussion on technical system and practice of green highway construction

This paper proposes the framework of the construction and management system of the Puyan Green Highway in Sanming, the technology of environmental protection and pollution prevention, the technology of resource conservation and recycling, the technology of green environmental protection and energy conservation and carbon reduction, the service improvement and smart construction technologies On this basis, the research and practice of green highway construction demonstration technology have been carried out, laying a practical foundation for the construction of green highways in Fujian Province.

Research and practice of green highway construction technology system

Taking Guangji expressway as an example, this paper focuses on the goal of building “demonstration road of highway construction, demonstration road of green highway and demonstration road of quality engineering” in Jiangxi Province. It mainly describes the construction idea, realization way, characteristics, highlights and practical experience of demonstration project of Guangji green highway construction.

Discussion on practice of green highway construction based on high quality objectives

Creating green roads is an objective requirement for the transformation and development of the transportation industry. It is also an objective requirement for advancing the supply-side structural reform of the transportation industry and building a satisfactory transportation for the people. It is also an objective requirement for achieving a beautiful China. The author puts forward some practical experiences of green highway construction through the construction of the typical demonstration project of the Guangji expressway green highway.

Study on Green Highway Construction in Mountainous Hilly Area

The article takes the Shaoxin Expressway as an example. Based on the construction characteristics of the project, it analyzes the construction requirements for the green highway of the project. From the safe and ecological construction of the tunnel, the ecological safety guarantee in the environmentally sensitive areas, the expansion of the highway tourism functions, the wisdom monitoring of highway construction operations and other aspects, this article systematically analyzes the contents of green highway construction in mountainous hilly areas, and it can provide a technical reference for similar green roads construction projects.