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 [Green Infrastructure](/CSR-News/green-infrastructure)

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

 

##### By John R. Quain

 

 

 Aug 13, 2018 2:15 PM ET

  Campaign:  [The Ray](/news/campaign/ray)  ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/DarkCarWattwaysideview.jpg) 

[Originally published by Digital Trends](https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/the-highway-of-the-future-is-being-paved-in-georgia/)

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 agencies, global companies, and academic researchers, along with the Ray C. Anderson Foundation are working together to build a smart roadway. Using a variety of technologies ranging from electricity-generating surfaces to pollution-reducing ditches, it’s a real-world laboratory that’s paving the way to the roads of tomorrow.  
  
It’s also aimed at demonstrating how a smart transportation corridor can not only be environmentally friendly, but generate revenue as well.

[Read the full story on Digital Trends.](https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/the-highway-of-the-future-is-being-paved-in-georgia/)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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