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Title:

Case Study for Integrating FHWA's Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability Tool (INVEST) on All Projects at the Illinois Tollway

Accession Number:

01595677

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The Illinois Tollway (Tollway) is committed to making sustainability part of everything they do, from planning and design to construction, to maintenance and operation of their 286-mile system of toll roads and bridges throughout Northern Illinois. This commitment is key to the goal to make their 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future, the “cleanest and greenest program” in the agency’s history. In order to meet their sustainability goals, tools were needed to measure the Tollway’s past, current and future sustainability improvements and to drive and confirm continual improvements. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released the Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability Tool (INVEST) in 2012 as a web-based self-evaluation tool based on sustainable practices and activities that enables transportation practitioners to evaluate the sustainability of their projects. The Tollway selected INVEST to integrate throughout their projects and programs in order to measure and drive the continual sustainable performance to which they are committed. The Tollway developed a program for implementing INVEST with modifications required for their projects. The first year of this plan has been executed, including the development of an implementation manual, and baseline and on-going project evaluations. Results show remarkable improvements in the sustainability of projects over time. These results provide: 1) targets and specific input to ongoing and upcoming projects, 2) key information to educate design teams, and 3) data for stakeholders to demonstrate advances being made in sustainability.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD40 Standing Committee on Transportation and Sustainability.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-1712

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Reid, Lisa M
Davis, Anneke J

Pagination:

21p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Illinois

Subject Areas:

Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-1712

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 4:44PM