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The Hawaii Statewide Highway System Sustainable Landscape Master Plan provides comprehensive guidance on how to bring Hawaii’s highway system into alignment with the Hawaiian principle of Pono – of being environmentally sustainable and in harmony with place. For several years the Federal Highway Administration and many state highway departments have promoted a Context Sensitive Design or Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) approach to highway planning and design. Additionally, increasing emphasis has been placed on making roads, streets and highways more environmentally and socially sustainable. However, some transportation departments, including the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT), find it difficult to consistently apply a CSS approach or sustainability best practices to a high percentage of highway projects for various reasons. The Sustainable Landscape Master Plan will make contextual and sustainability planning and design more readily attainable on projects carried out by HDOT. The master plan establishes the social and environmental context for various segments of Hawaii’s entire 2,400 mile state highway system. For each segment the master plan offers specific contextual and sustainability recommendations that may be considered for any highway improvement project. Additionally, the plan builds upon and consolidates local and statewide initiatives and programs for environmental protection, multi-modal travel, and land use into one guidance manual for highways. The master plan can be used as an example by other state highway departments who seek to implement CSS and sustainability practices on a majority of their highway improvement projects.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFB40 Landscape and Environmental Design.

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15-4813

English

21p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; Photos; References

Construction projects; Context sensitive design; Environmental protection; Highways; Land use; Landscape design; Multimodal transportation; Sustainable development; Transportation planning

Hawaii Department of Transportation

Design; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-4813

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 1:36PM