{"476571":{"#nid":"476571","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech study aids initiative to create highway of the future in Georgia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA baseline study produced by Georgia Tech showed numerous ways that a portion of highway in West Georgia, called \u0022The Ray\u0022 for late carpet mogul and environmentalist Ray C. Anderson, could be used as a real-world laboratory for testing earth-friendly.\u0026nbsp;Getting corporate partners is key. That stretch of highway is a prime logistics corridor for numerous global companies like Coca-Cola, Kia, Walmart, Caterpillar, Kimberly Clark, UPS and Interface (the carpet tile manufacturing company that Anderson founded).The Ray C. Anderson Foundation is seeking whenever possible to partner with these companies, in addition to nonprofits like the Georgia Conservancy, government agencies like Georgia Department of Transportation and research institutions like Georgia Tech, said Allie Kelly, executive director of The Ray.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Foundation is now considering:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETaking advantage of the 200 acres of right-of-way on the roadside to farm biofuel plants like corn, canola or sunflowers.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EInstalling attractive, translucent sound barriers that also function as solar panels.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERepurposing toxic hog manure as a replacement for the binding agent in asphalt.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECreating living billboards made of plant material that help purify the air.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBuilding a wildlife crossing over or under the highway to help reduce animal fatalities.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2015-12-07 12:07:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:49","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/news\/transportation\/highway-of-the-future-being-developed-in-georgia\/npZ5y\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"310201":{"id":"310201","type":"image","title":"Highway at Night","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"Highway at Night","file":{"fid":"199839","name":"highway_lights_alan_stark_flickr_h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/highway_lights_alan_stark_flickr_h_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/highway_lights_alan_stark_flickr_h_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":524787,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/highway_lights_alan_stark_flickr_h_0.jpg?itok=VrQCrBDY"}}},"media_ids":["310201"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"119421","name":"green infrastructure"},{"id":"773","name":"Highway"},{"id":"169062","name":"the ray"},{"id":"168","name":"Transportation"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}