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Oct 16, 2018

The Extra Mile – Part 2

In our last blog, Allie Kelly, executive director of The Ray, told us about the innovative technologies…

Oct 12, 2018

The Extra Mile Blog – Part 1

Our dedicated team works to provide efficient, innovative solutions to our common challenges. Read the posts below to learn how Georgia DOT is keeping Georgia connected. Read more.

Oct 1, 2018

Innovating Atlanta’s Transportation Infrastructure

The Ray is a living example of how roads can be built successfully with sustainable, forward-thinking goals in mind. This 18-mile stretch between West Point and LaGrange does indeed generate electricity through solar road panels (the Wattway) designed by French transportation company Colas, but it also helps reduce…

Aug 29, 2018 Press Release

Nation’s 1st Pollinator-Friendly Right-of-Way Solar Project Comes To Georgia

August 29, 2018 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Last week, the Georgia Public Service Commission (Georgia PSC) authorized the funding for Georgia Power to construct, own and operate a one-megawatt solar array on Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) property at Exit 14 off Interstate 85, which is known as “The Ray.”…

Aug 27, 2018

This highway is paving the way to the roads of the future

If you find yourself on Interstate-85 in the Southeastern United States – more specifically on the stretch between West Point and LaGrange, Georgia – you’ll find something strange afoot. For this is home to The Ray – an 18-mile stretch of road calling itself the future of all highways.

Aug 26, 2018

Green Guy Podcast

The Ray Executive Director, Allie Kelly and Harriet Langford are on talking about an initiative of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation that is the proving ground for ideas and technologies like solar paved highways and bioswales that will transform transportation infrastructure around the world.

Aug 24, 2018

First pollinator friendly right-of-way solar in nation coming to Troup Co.

The Ray in Troup County is once again leading the way for the nation with a one-megawatt solar array on Georgia Department of Transportation property at Exit 14 of Interstate 85 to be installed this fall.

Aug 22, 2018

Georgia Power testing solar energy

Georgia Power could be makin a change that could affect your power bill. Read more.

Aug 21, 2018

Photovoltaics + Pollinators

The transportation sector contributes an outsized portion of global carbon pollution and our human transportation needs disrupt the preexisting ecosystem. Technology is rapidly changing our infrastructure landscape, and while that poses its own set of unique challenges, it also opens the door to new opportunities to mitigate some of the…

Aug 13, 2018

Georgia’s High Tech Sustainable Highway

According to Digital Trends, on an 18-mile segment of Interstate 85 in Georgia, a team of government agencies, global companies, and academic researchers, along with the Ray C. Anderson Foundation are currently working towards to building a ‘smart’ roadway. Read more.

Aug 13, 2018

The Highway of the Future Might Someday Start in Georgia

Georgia, somewhere to the edge of Alabama. That is where the living laboratory for the highways of the future might appear, thanks to the Ray C. Anderson Foundation. The website for The Ray project states that “The Ray is a proving ground for the evolving ideas and technologies that will…

Aug 11, 2018

Georgia is paving the way for a high-tech, sustainable highway

If you want to see what the highway of the future might look like, then you only need to drive down to Georgia. On an 18-mile segment of Interstate 85 — stretching from the city of LaGrange to the Alabama border, 67 miles from Atlanta — a consortium of government…

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