ADDRESSING SUSTAINABILITY IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS: DEFINITIONS, INDICATORS, AND METRICS
This paper reviews major sustainable transportation initiatives in North America, Europe, and Oceania. The purpose is to characterize the emergent thinking on what constitutes transportation sustainability and how to measure it. While there is no standard definition for transportation system sustainability, it is largely being defined through impacts of the system on the economy, environment, and general social well-being; and measured by system effectiveness and efficiency, and the impacts of the system on the natural environment. Frameworks based on important causal relationships between infrastructure and the broader environment, infrastructure impacts on the economy, environment, and social well-being; and the relative influence of agencies over causal factors, are largely being used to develop and determine indicator systems for measuring sustainability in transportation systems.
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Corporate Authors:
American Society of Civil Engineers
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Authors:
- Jeon, C M
- Amekudzi, A
- Publication Date: 2005-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 31-50
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Serial:
- Journal of Infrastructure Systems
- Volume: 11
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- ISSN: 1076-0342
- EISSN: 1943-555X
- Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jitse4
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Economic factors; Infrastructure; Performance evaluations; Socioeconomic factors; Sustainable development; Transportation
- Geographic Terms: Europe; North America; Oceania
- Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00988147
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 2 2005 12:00AM