Sustainability and Livability; Economic, Environmental, and Societal Impacts

This issue contains 15 papers on the subject of sustainability and livability approaches to transportation and evaluation of the economic, environmental, and societal impacts. Specific topics discussed include the following: the evaluation and assessment of sustainable transportation; the economics of transportation sustainability; sustainable transportation planning; sustainable road transport; performance of livability programs; assessing environmental impacts in the transport sector; socioeconomics of introducing electric vehicles; quantifying transport energy resilience; why congestion threshold speeds do not matter as decision-making input; low-socioeconomic-status households access to destinations; the new form of spatial mismatch; nondriver accessibility; and the economic impacts of bypasses.

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• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 141p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2242
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Bypasses; Decision making; Economic impacts; Electric vehicles; Energy; Environmental impacts; Evaluation and assessment; Low income groups; Quality of life; Social impacts; Socioeconomic factors; Sustainable transportation; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Nondrivers
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Society; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01362315
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309167628
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 2 2012 9:00AM