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Mar 5, 2020

Road Safety at Rush Hour Podcast Ep. 2: Transportation Technology for Road Safety

In this episode, Bryan Delaney hops on the phone with Allie Kelly, Executive Director of ‘The Ray’, a proving ground for the innovative ideas and technologies that will transform the transportation infrastructure of the future. The Ray starts on 18 miles of West Georgia’s I-85, and the land and communities…

Mar 4, 2020

Highway of the future experience at ConExpo

The Ray, one of the only public living transportation labs in the US, will be recreated for ConExpo in Las Vegas, US, 10-14 March. ConExpo features the latest equipment advances and newest technology applications in every aspect of construction. The Ray and Associated Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) will…

Mar 4, 2020

Tire Industry Moves to Improve Sustainability, Reduce Waste (Part Three)

Scrap tires often receive attention when they are illegally dumped or landfilled, and sometimes when they cause fires, but perhaps less highlighted is that some infrastructure stakeholders have found a way to put them to beneficial use while circumventing the environmental negatives. They are capitalizing on rubber from scrap tires…

Mar 3, 2020 Press Release

The Ray’s Highway of The Future Experience at CONEXPO-CON/AGG

AEM brings The Ray to life in Las Vegas March 10 – 14 (March 3, 2020) — From March 10th through the 14th, The Ray is partnering with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) to bring The Ray to CONEXPO-CON/AGG, North America’s largest construction trade show, in Las…

Feb 27, 2020

A Model 21st Century Georgia Highway for the Nation

InsiderAdvantage just toured “The Ray,” an 18-mile segment of Interstate 85 stretching from LaGrange to the Alabama border. Along with the smooth roadway, a surface mix of asphalt and recycled tire rubber, the project includes the right-of-way land and the Georgia Visitor Information Center in West Point. Read More.

Feb 26, 2020 Press Release

Georgia DOT, UGA, and The Ray Test Alternatives to Traditional Land Management Strategies on I-85

LaGrange, GA (February 26, 2020) — Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT), The Ray, and the University of Georgia’s College of Environment + Design (UGA CED) are pleased to provide a major update to the living vegetative lab spanning the diamond interchanges at Exit 6 on Interstate-85. Throughout January, UGA…

Feb 26, 2020

Plans to build the highway of the future start here

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Feb 25, 2020

Georgia highway innovation project to be featured at CONEXPO

LAS VEGAS — The U.S. Federal Highway Administration and the Georgia Department of Transportation are working with a non-profit agency called the Ray Project to develop innovative highway technology that will work better with autonomous vehicles than existing infrastructure. Read More.

Feb 17, 2020

A Transformative Approach to Highway Construction

An 18-mile stretch of Georgia interstate is pushing the technological envelope with respect to safety and sustainability in road construction. By leveraging solar energy, recycled tires, vehicle telematics data and valuable roadside right-of-way, The Ray Project is showcasing how America’s highways can be transformed into more ecologically beneficial, revenue-generating infrastructure. “The goal…

Feb 15, 2020

A TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACH TO HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

Feb 12, 2020

HOW SOLAR ROADS COULD MAKE TRANSPORT CLEANER

In 2016, the French government announced one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in modern history: a 620-mile highway passing through Normandy built of solar panels instead of asphalt. The panels, the government said, would generate 790 kilowatts per day and power 5 million homes. That ambitious plan flopped. In…

Jan 27, 2020

INSIDE THE WORLD’S FIRST REGENERATIVE HIGHWAY

Since ancient times, humans have been altering the environment to create throughways for the transport of food and goods, not to mention travel and military defense. But over the course of thousands of years, little has changed regarding the way roads are built. It’s still a necessity to clear trees…

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