9/12/2018

SUSTAINABLE
TRANSPORTATION

What is Sustainability?

Sustainability is an approach to
managing our earths resources
and environment for the best
interests of all those affected by
what we do both now and in the
future.

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Principles of Sustainability
• Basic Principles
• minimizing the use of non-
renewable resources
• minimizing impacts on the
natural environment
• protecting biodiversity
• using renewable resources in
a sustainable manner

Sustainable Development

• Development that meets the need of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs.

(World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)

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Sustainable
Development: Examples
• Issue – Thousands of used car tires.
• Solution – Build a facility to recycle
the tires and offer the rubber for
utilization in the production of
asphalt pavements within Grey
county.

Sustainable Development: Example

• The Province of New Brunswick

have a Sustainability Policy
A commitment to sustainability
through the development of:
Intelligent Transportation
Systems
Road Weather Information
Systems
Alternative Fuels

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Sustainable Development: Example

• The Province of British Columbia
• Hot In Place recycling of asphalt pavements
• Over 10 million square meters recycled to
date.
• Maximizes the use of non renewable
resources
• Reduces green house gas emissions as
much as 7000 tonnes per production day
over conventional mill and fill.

Sustainable Development: Example

• The Province of Nova Scotia

• Cold In Place Recycled Asphalt Program

• Over 30 projects completed to date

• “Road Mining” rather than “Road Wasting”

• Recycling of valuable asphalt cement and

aggregates.

• Reduction in use of None Renewable

Resources

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Sustainable Development: Example

• Eastern Canada Road Weather
Information Systems (RWIS)
• Economically beneficial
through the reduction in the
use of road salt.
• Increases driver safety due to
improved salt management
• Lessens the environmental
impact on road side vegetation
and wildlife

Sustainable Development: Example

• Engineering Functions
• Conducting Mass Balance Studies
Lyon

• collect data and analyses resource flows to determine

methods by which an industry can be made more sustainable.
• A recent study in England found that the construction industry
requires 420M tonnes of material resources annually to create
275M tonnes of built infrastructure. It also produced over
150M tonnes of waste.
• conducted Sustainable Transportation Study for city of Lyon,
France.

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Sustainable Aggregate Recycling

Europe vs. America
• United States.
• Blast furnace slag — 90 percent,
• Coal bottom ash — 31 percent,
• Coal fly ash — 27 percent,.
• RAP — 80 percent,

• Sweden
• Blast furnace slag — 45 percent,
• Steel slag — 100 percent,.
• RAP — 95 percent,

• Germany
• Blast furnace slag — 100 percent,
• Steel slag — 92 percent,.
• Coal bottom ash — 97 percent,. Recycled Slag, Paris, France
• Coal fly ash — 88 percent,.
• RAP — 55 percent,

Ultimate Sustainable Roads

Green House Gas Eating Pavements

Pavements in Westminster, London may soon have a role that goes far beyond
creating smooth roadways. Japan's Mitsubishi Materials Corporation has
developed a paving stone called "Noxer" that uses the catalytic properties of TiO2
to remove nitrogen oxide (NOx) from the air, breaking it down into
environmentally benign substances that are washed away by rainwater. NOx is
produced in abundance through vehicle emissions.

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Tools for Measuring

Sustainability The Waste & Resources Action Program
European Technology
• The tool focuses on giving an estimate of the CO2 saved in
selecting different construction techniques and supply alternatives
(use of primary or recycled and secondary aggregates).
• The tool uses Microsoft Excel and is designed to assess the CO2
output resulting from four types of construction involving
aggregates:
o bitumen bound
o Cement bound
o Water bound
o Unbound

CWA - Environmental Sustainability Rating Program

Environmental Sustainability Rating (ESR): A relative number reflecting the cost of construction methodology against CO2 emissions
per lane kilometer over a defined life cycle

Construction Logistics
Option Cost GWP Years
Length 1000 metres
1 $45,000.00 37.46 12 Width 3.75 metres
ESR 6.9

2 $30,000.00 21.09 12
ESR 4.3

Option 1
Budget Area Depth Energy CO2 NOx SOx
Construction Options Tonnes CO (gm) PM10 (gm)
$ m2 m2 (cm) (Mj) (kg) (gm) (gm)
Milling 5 2.00 3750 5 450 24627 2221 5392 47999 2812 3034
Hotmix paving 1 10.00 3750 5 450 373988 35238 2445532 1692007 99438 393416
3 0.00 3750 5 450 0
No selection

Total for this option $ 12.00 45000 398615 37459 2450924 1740006 102250 396450

Option 2
Budget Area Depth Energy CO2 NOx SOx
Construction Options 2 2 Tonnes CO (gm) PM10 (gm)
$m m (cm) (Mj) (kg) (gm) (gm)
HIR 2 8.00 3750 6 540 254991 21090 509755 1222036 71561 69594
No selection 3 0.00 3750 5 450 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 3750 0 0 0
No selection

Total for this option $ 8.00 30000 254990.8 21090.0 509755.0 1222035.6 71560.9 69593.6

Budget Energy CO2 CO NOx PM10 SOx

$ (Mj) (kg) (gm) (gm) (gm) (gm)

Option 1 $ 45,000 398615 37459 2450924 1740006 102250 396450

Option 2 $ 30,000 254991 21090 509755 1222036 71561 69594

Difference $ 15,000 143,624 16,369 1,941,169 517,970 30,689 326,856

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Sustainability – Should We Worry?

• Because of the potential environmental impacts of major

construction projects, alternatives to new road construction

will be thoroughly investigated first. (Recycling)

• New roads are expensive. They impose substantial

environmental costs. Can problems can be solved by making

better use of the existing network before adding additional

infrastructure? (Environmental Issues)

• Road-building must be accompanied by measures to lock in the

benefits, i.e. prevent new traffic from filling up the new road

space. (Restricted Traffic Use)

What is Changing? Why this emphasis now?

• Growing awareness of
problems or issues

• Increasing intolerance with use

of “free goods or services”

• Mistrust of global organizations

• Information age has increased

power of third parties.

• Expectation that something be

done

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These Are The Facts!

• Oil prices are approaching $100/barrel.

• Hydrocarbon Emissions are ever increasing.

• Environment activists with Power Point presentations are

winning the Nobel Prize.

• None renewable resources are decreasing.

• Our world is warming up.

• Canada is committed to a path of environmental

sustainability.

• Are we doing our share in the transportation sector?