Creating Green Roadways: Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation

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This welcome introduction to the topic of 'greening' roadways promotes humanizing and beautifying roads and streets while reducing their environmental impacts using collaborative, interdisciplinary methods.

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Creating Green Roadways provides a comprehensive overview of how roads can be designed to protect natural and cultural resources and exist harmoniously within their context. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. There is a need to reevaluate how transportation is accommodated in rural, suburban, and urban communities. Different waste materials, such as industrial and mining wastes, construction and demolition wastes, municipal wastes, waste rubber and waste fiber, are utilized in CSMs, and this is beneficial to promote the sustainable development of CSMs. The achievement of sustainability objectives for roadway projects can be assessed using a sustainability rating system with a set of indicators to distinguish the levels of sustainability achieved.

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