Canadian Guide for Greener Roads

The Canadian Guide for Greener Roads (CGGR) promotes smart growth and multimodal transportation solutions along with safe, enduring roadway infrastructure and more sustainable construction and maintenance principles. The CGGR helps decision makers reduce the less desirable social, economic and environmental impacts of roads while encouraging processes, practices and products that will yield more sustainable outcomes. The CGGR is intended to help users self-evaluate and strengthen the benefits of integrating sustainability principles into Canadian roadway projects but it is not a design document. Users are encouraged to consult applicable jurisdictional requirements, technical standards and guidance documents, and should obtain professional advice as required. The CGGR is written for technical laypersons (e.g. environmental planner, transportation engineer) with some technical understanding but who may not be not subject-matter experts. The Guide does not address all aspects of sustainability, and only includes topics that were of most interest at the time when the Guide was developed. The document is accompanied with a set of sustainability practices available in a database. Using an interactive tool, readers may obtain information sheets on topics that can support achieving sustainability objectives for road infrastructure projects.