Green Highways Website Launched
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01/09/07
Green Highways Partnership Website Launched
The Green Highways Partnership (GHP) has formed a communications network that is being maintained through its website (www.greenhighways.org). Among its diverse functions, the website will feature a Green Highways awards and recognition program; pilot programs; allow viewers to identify and seek funding mechanisms; and act as a conduit to environmental entities at Federal, State, and local government levels, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and trade and industry groups. The website will also coordinate outreach with organizations such as AASHTO, American Road & Transportation Builders Association, and the consulting community.
According to Dominique Lueckenhoff, from EPA Region 3 and Chair of GHP, the website serves as a tool to consolidate resources, support effective communication and networking, streamline information sharing, and facilitate technology transfer. "The site will be the information 'nerve center' for all activities related to Green Highways," she says.
In addition to the website, the partnership is pursuing other outreach activities across the mid-Atlantic to spread the word about Green Highways. Proponents are meeting with State DOT executives across the region to explain the goals and objectives of the partnership and assess interest and opportunities within the theme areas. Further, the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) ADC10 Committee on environmental analysis in transportation is planning a Green Highways workshop for the annual TRB conference in Washington, DC, in January 2007.
"Partnerships like Green Highways are vital to the transportation community and can help facilitate the timely delivery of a quality transportation program," says Administrator Neil Pedersen of the Maryland SHA. "The ultimate goal of Green Highways is to develop self-sustaining, public-private and public-public partnerships."
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