Working Group
The IRF Working Group Environment functions as a platform where members can sit together to share their complementary knowledge and elaborate joint solutions. The working group is IRF Members driven and aims at:
- Facilitating the networking
- Enhance the exchange and collection of research and information
- Be a forum for case-study
- Identify and test best practices
- Develop guidelines, studies and innovative tools that can be used in capacity-building programs and training
- Liaise with relevant international organizations (UN, EU, PIARC, etc.)
- Raise awareness on IRF members' commitment to environment
- Lobbying relevant authorities
Recycling, water management, Eco-friendly materials and techniques, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental management systems, Traffic management strategies and operations, Noise and air pollution reduction and mitigation, GHG emissions monitoring and accounting, Road infrastructure adaptation to climate change, Alternative energy production through road infrastructure.
We have a number of documents on these themes available in the IRF knowledge centre as well as in the gTKP knowledge centre.
The group has produced last year a publication in a CD Rom Format "Innovative Practices for Greener Roads". This new IRF publication highlights a series of projects, products and practices illustrating exemplary commitment to the environment by our members throughout the world.
The group is actually working on a number of case-studies on road infrastructure planning, design, construction, maintenance, management and operation. These case-studies will be compiled in a new publication.
Chaired by Dimitris Mandalozis (Attika Tollway), the IRF Working Group Environment benefits from the input and work of more than 20 members from all over the world thus being able to look also into regional specificities.
If you wish to learn more about the WG Environment or attend the next meeting, please contact Susanna Zammataro at szammataro@irfnet.org.
