Establishment of sustainable design criteria for Malaysian green highway index

The green rating system becomes a popular tool to confirm the green credential of an infrastructure. Malaysia has established the green rating system for building but not for highway. The aim of this study was to identify the suitable sustainable design criteria and sub-criteria of the green highway...

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Main Author:	Umar Baki, Nazurah Zahidah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	TE Highway engineering Roads and pavements
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48198/1/NazurahZahidahUmarBakiMFKA2013.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.481982017-08-30T08:19:50Z Establishment of sustainable design criteria for Malaysian green highway index 2013 Umar Baki, Nazurah Zahidah TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements The green rating system becomes a popular tool to confirm the green credential of an infrastructure. Malaysia has established the green rating system for building but not for highway. The aim of this study was to identify the suitable sustainable design criteria and sub-criteria of the green highway criteria for Malaysian Green Highway Index. The objectives of this study were to identify the suitable criteria and sub-criteria for sustainable design; and to identify the weighting of sustainable design highway criteria. The information was gathered from journals, books, conference papers, internet and others country green rating system manual. Other than that, it also included the discussion with the experts and questionnaire distribution. Experts are the academician, professional from government agency and private sector that have been involved in highway projects. This study focuses on the suitable design criteria for expressway and toll highway. The suitable design criteria and sub-criteria of sustainable design was analysed using the factor analysis. From the analysis, there are two criteria and seven sub-criteria of sustainable design that is suitable with Malaysian highway condition. Factor score were determined by multiplying the factor loading with a mean of each sub-criteria. Factor score were used as a weighting for determine the score point of sustainable design criteria and sub-criteria 2013 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48198/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48198/1/NazurahZahidahUmarBakiMFKA2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://libraryopac.utm.my/client/en_AU/main/search/results?qu=Establishment+of+sustainable+design+criteria+for+Malaysian+green+highway+index&te= masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
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topic	TE Highway engineering Roads and pavements
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description	The green rating system becomes a popular tool to confirm the green credential of an infrastructure. Malaysia has established the green rating system for building but not for highway. The aim of this study was to identify the suitable sustainable design criteria and sub-criteria of the green highway criteria for Malaysian Green Highway Index. The objectives of this study were to identify the suitable criteria and sub-criteria for sustainable design; and to identify the weighting of sustainable design highway criteria. The information was gathered from journals, books, conference papers, internet and others country green rating system manual. Other than that, it also included the discussion with the experts and questionnaire distribution. Experts are the academician, professional from government agency and private sector that have been involved in highway projects. This study focuses on the suitable design criteria for expressway and toll highway. The suitable design criteria and sub-criteria of sustainable design was analysed using the factor analysis. From the analysis, there are two criteria and seven sub-criteria of sustainable design that is suitable with Malaysian highway condition. Factor score were determined by multiplying the factor loading with a mean of each sub-criteria. Factor score were used as a weighting for determine the score point of sustainable design criteria and sub-criteria
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Umar Baki, Nazurah Zahidah
author_facet	Umar Baki, Nazurah Zahidah
author_sort	Umar Baki, Nazurah Zahidah
title	Establishment of sustainable design criteria for Malaysian green highway index
title_short	Establishment of sustainable design criteria for Malaysian green highway index
title_full	Establishment of sustainable design criteria for Malaysian green highway index
title_fullStr	Establishment of sustainable design criteria for Malaysian green highway index
title_full_unstemmed	Establishment of sustainable design criteria for Malaysian green highway index
title_sort	establishment of sustainable design criteria for malaysian green highway index
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate	2013
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48198/1/NazurahZahidahUmarBakiMFKA2013.pdf
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