TRB Straight to Recording for All: Green Infrastructure in the Transportation Sector

TRB recorded presentations in May 2015 that provide an overview of legislation encouraging Green Infrastructure (GI) in the transportation sector, potential legislation mandating such efforts, similar regulatory efforts, and other GI programs and incentives. Speakers also focus on successful efforts to incorporate GI into planning efforts and into existing projects.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made employing GI a priority, but there is significant uncertainty surrounding the concept. Transportation organizations have historically not considered GI in their planning due to confusion over the eligibility of such expenditures for reimbursement from the Highway Trust Fund.


Slides
https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/webinars/GreenInfrastructureintheTransportationSector.pdf


Recordings
GI overview (7:24)


Legislation encouraging GI & Potential mandates (13:15)



Similar regulatory efforts & GI programs and incentives (19:25)



Discussion of the Conservation Fund’s work in GI (18:55)



Webinar Presenters
Mackenzie Schoonmaker
Principal, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
MSchoonmaker@bdlaw.com

Fred Wagner
Principal, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
Chief Counsel of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from 2011 to 2014
FWagner@bdlaw.com

Kris Hoellen
Vice President of Sustainable Programs, Director of Conservation Leadership Network, The Conservation Fund
khoellen@conservationfund.org