Green & Blue Infrastructure Survey

CIHT is developing a policy piece to provide support to the transport sector in delivering Green-Blue Infrastructure (GBI) to promote healthy streets and enhance city resilience, while also encouraging the thinking of delivering streets as places.

 

GBI refers to the use of green components (such as trees, vegetation, forests, fields, parks) and blue-water - components (such as ponds, wetlands, floodplains, rain gardens, water treatment facilities) to create a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, with other environmental features designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services (improved air quality, biodiversity, water quality, flood resilience and more). GBI can often provide more benefits at lower cost than single-purpose grey infrastructure.

 

The aim of this survey is to capture the perspective of the highways and transportation sector towards GBI and understand our members’ willingness to implement GBI.

 

The survey will be split into three areas:

Section 1: establishing your profession and industry

Section 2: GBI projects are being considered and challenges within the sector

Section 3: approaches needed for greening our transport and highways

The term ‘sector’ in the survey refers to the highways and transport sector.