The Ray

News and information about The Ray, Georgia's restorative, sustainable highway of the future.

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Energy

The Solar Highway of the Future
As many of America’s asphalt and concrete roads crumble, solar pavement may offer a brighter future.

Green Infrastructure

Building a Sustainable 'Highway of the Future'
The long-term goal of The Ray is to build the world’s first sustainable road, a highway that could create its own clean, renewable energy and generate income by selling power to utility companies, while producing no stormwater runoff or other pollution and eliminating traffic deaths.

Green Infrastructure

How to Build an Infrastructure Inventory
The Ray is featured in the Atlas Blog

Events, Media & Communications

John Picard to Speak About The Ray at Sustainatopia
John Picard to speak about The Ray at Sustainatopia, today and tomorrow.

Environment

Combating Pollution with Bioswales
Last week, The Ray and the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) installed five to ten acres of native grasses and pollinator plant seeds in the median and northbound lane gore area of Exit 6 on I-85 near LaGrange, Georgia

Events, Media & Communications

Allie Kelly of The Ray to Speak at AIA NY's Viral Voices VI- Virtual Displacement
Allie Kelly, executive director of The Ray will be one of the panelists for AIA New York Chapter's "Viral Voices VI - Virtual Displacement" on Thursday, March 30th at the AIA Center for Architecture.

Innovation & Technology

Can U.S. Highways Evolve After 60 Years of Stagnation?
Cars are getting smarter—can’t the road get smarter, too? That’s the question Harriet Langford is trying to answer along an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 in western Georgia.

Innovation & Technology

Georgia Project Aims to Build Smarter Roads
Cars are getting smarter and more sophisticated all the time, but the roads they drive on are still pretty much pavement. That’s slowly starting to change. States are turning highways into technology laboratories for everything from traffic management to environmental sustainability.

Events, Media & Communications

Allie Kelly of The Ray to speak at SMPS Transportation Summit in Jacksonville, FL
Allie Kelly, executive Director of The Ray will speak at the Society for Marketing Professionals Services North Florida's Transportation Summit. The focus of the summit is: Urban Connectivity: How Transportation Technologies are Changing Infrastructure.

Innovation & Technology

Take a Ride on The Ray
The Ray is a proving ground for the evolving ideas and technologies that will transform the transportation infrastructure of the future, and it starts on 18 miles of West Georgia's I-85, and the land and communities surrounding it.

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Foundation Events and Speaking Engagements

This section lists upcoming Foundation events, partnerships and speaking engagements featuring the executive director and the trustees.

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