The Stream by AASHTO
by American Association of State Highway and Transportation OfficialsThe Stream by AASHTO podcast explores environmental topics important to people involved in transportation and infrastructure programs.
Copyright: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Episodes
AASHTO's ETAP Podcast: Oregon DOT's Wildlife Crossing Corridor
18m · PublishedAASHTO's ETAP Podcast: Young Professionals in the Transportation Sector
28m · PublishedAASHTO's ETAP Podcast Episode: Georgia's Transportation Investment Act
20m · PublishedAASHTO's ETAP Podcast: New York's Resilient Transportation System
19m · PublishedAASHTO's ETAP Podcast: I-24 Motion Project with Lee Smith and Dr. Dan Work
24m · PublishedAASHTO's ETAP Podcast: AASHTO'S Presidential Emphasis with Secretary Roger Millar
26m · PublishedAASHTO's ETAP Podcast: The Ray Eyes Future Roadway Developments
26m · PublishedFounded in 2014, The Ray is a Georgia-based corporate venture devoted to roadway technology testing and collaborates with a number of state departments of transportation across the country. For example, in 2019, it formed a public-private-philanthropic partnership with the Georgia Department of Transportation to create and install a digital testing environment focused on critical interstate use cases, such as crash and weather warnings, for stakeholder engagement and education.
AASHTO's ETAP Podcast: Pennsylvania’s New Statewide Anti-Litter Program
17m · PublishedPennDOT helped launch the new program – formally entitled “PA Fights Dirty: Every Litter Bit Matters” – in August along with several other state agencies. The program seeks to get state residents to ensure that every piece of their trash, regardless of size, is disposed of properly as research shows only 3 percent of Pennsylvanians approve of littering, yet 40 to 50 percent of them admit to littering roadways and other public areas.
AASHTO's ETAP Podcast: Next Generation Highways
17m · PublishedThe Ray and consulting firm NGI released the NextGen Highways Feasibility Study for the Minnesota DOT in April; a study that examined strategies for “co-locating” electric and communications infrastructure in highway right-of-ways or ROWs.
The study focused on the potential deployment of buried, high-voltage/direct current or HVDC transmission lines within Minnesota interstate and highway ROWs – an effort that offers broader implications for highway ROW strategies in other states.
In April 2021, the Federal Highway Administration released guidance clarifying the highway ROW “can be leveraged by state DOTs for pressing public needs relating to climate change, equitable communications access, and energy reliability.”
Projects listed include renewable energy generation, electrical transmission and distribution projects, broadband projects, vegetation management, inductive charging in travel lanes, and alternative fueling facilities, among others.
“At the heart of this study is the need to examine the energy transmission infrastructure we will need in order to electrify our transportation network; part of a broader effort to decarbonize the U.S. economy,” Oh explained during the podcast.
“The concept we’re evaluating looked specifically at burying [electric power] transmission lines in the highway ROW,” she noted. “Only three states allow for that now. Yet the use of existing distributed ROW could contain the visual impact of expanding our electric grid while lessening the need to acquire more land to support more transmission.”
Building transmission capacity in existing highway ROW could also reduce project-siting timelines by seven to 10 years, Oh added, while reducing the need to work with hundreds of landowners on a project down to dealing with a single state department of transportation.
“There is a great benefit for communities if they allow transmission capacity to be built in the highway ROW,” she emphasized.
AASHTO's ETAP Podcast: Electric Vehicles and State DOTs
23m · PublishedKuran is the co-founder and CEO of Power Edison as well as co-founder and executive chairman of its sister company EV Edison – companies offering innovative renewable energy, EV charging, and mobile energy storage solutions for the grid. Kuran explains how a “vision” for a peaceful world with universal access to clean and sustainable sources of energy, food, and water drives his efforts in the EV sector. Here, Kuran lays out a variety of approaches and solutions for meeting the electric grid demand generated by EV charging – how state DOTs can support those efforts.
The Stream by AASHTO has 46 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 17:15:44. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on December 22nd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 19th, 2024 02:41.