The Ray Partners With CORE SC to Develop Resilient Infrastructure

Allie Kelly Aug 06, 2021

Photo of a construction crew building a road.

On Tuesday, June 22nd, The Ray announced a partnership with South Carolina’s Center of Resilience Excellence (CORE SC) for developing technology and innovation that will pave the way for safe, resilient, and sustainable roadways in South Carolina.

This public-private partnership is an open-ended charter that will specifically focus on deploying innovative solutions to help restore the environment, spur the advancement of electrification and connected mobility, and improve the safety and resilience of roads—all while creating economic opportunity for the state. Drawing on its years of experience testing and developing innovative and sustainable solutions for infrastructure resilience, The Ray aims to work with CORE SC to develop forward-thinking solutions to the infrastructure challenges facing the Lowcountry.

Located in West Georgia on a stretch of I-85, The Ray is a nonprofit testing ground for innovative infrastructure solutions with a core focus on resilience, safety, and sustainability. Read the full press release on The Ray’s partnership with CORE SC here:

Read the full press release

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About Author

Allie Kelly

Allie Kelly is Executive Director of The Ray. In that role, she leads the nonprofit organization that has built the nation’s only publicly accessible, living laboratory for transportation innovation. Allie was recruited to lead as its first Executive Director in 2015. In three years, she has helped the organization to implement and build almost a dozen ground-breaking, world-leading technology demonstrations, including the first solar road in the United States and the world’s first public demonstration of a drive-through tire safety station. She is also a frequent public speaker and delivered keynote remarks about The Ray from the main stage at transportation, environmental, and technology industry conferences around the world including the U.S Transportation Research Board, AASHTO, VERGE, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, AREDAY and, in 2019, TedX Atlanta, WTS and MOVE. She was the recipient of the 2018 Atlanta Technology Professionals (ATP) Impact Award and was listed as one of the 100 Women to Know by Engineering Georgia in 2018 and 2019. A Georgia native, Allie earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Georgia. She has over 15 years of experience working in public policy, first as a lobbyist for UPS in Washington, D.C., then returning to Atlanta and founding Georgia Watch, the state’s only consumer watchdog organization.