The Sustainable Highways Program supports programs and activities conducted across the
Federal Highway Administration to facilitate balanced decisionmaking among environmental,
economic, and social values — the triple bottom line of sustainability.

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A strip of five photographs: a time-lapse photograph at night of car headlight streaks on a highway adjacent to tall buildings; a trucker sitting in the driver's seat of his open rig with his young son on his lap and his older daughter standing next to them; a roadway crew leveling poured concrete; a well-maintained two-lane road through a forest of tall trees; and four children looking back at the camera as they board a schoolbus
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Click here to read about specific examples of
sustainability in transportation decision-making.
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Visit www.sustainablehighways.org to use the
INVEST self-evaluation tool for practitioners.
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NCHRP Report 708: A Guidebook for Sustainability
Performance Measurement for Transportation
Agencies is now available.
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Pilot test version of INVEST criteria is now
available online.
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