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Title:

Sustainability Assessment at the Transportation Planning Level: Performance Measures and Indexes

Accession Number:

01088362

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

As the word “sustainability” becomes more and more prevalent throughout various disciplines, the definition of a sustainable transportation system is still controversial. However, there is emerging consensus that transportation system sustainability should capture attributes of system effectiveness and system impacts on economic development, environmental integrity, and the social quality of life. Sustainability assessment can be incorporated at the plan level in order to influence decision making, and support policies that affect regional sustainability. This paper reviews methodologies that can be applied in sustainability assessment in transportation planning in order to shed light on the procedures being used to incorporate sustainability more effectively in the planning process. Using a case study of Atlanta Metropolitan Region, the study identifies performance measures based on sustainability issues and regional goals and evaluates proposed transportation and land use alternatives The study evaluates and discusses several performance measures and aggregates them into indexes representing four parameters of sustainability: system effectiveness, environmental, economic, and social impacts, to enable visualization and assessment of tradeoffs and dominance for the competing alternatives. This study is potentially useful to agencies interested in understanding the range of tools being used for sustainability assessment, expanding or refining their performance measures to capture sustainability in transportation planning, and using them in evaluating tradeoffs among competing alternatives as well as in identifying dominant alternatives.

Monograph Accession #:

01084478

Report/Paper Numbers:

08-1325

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Jeon, Christy Mihyeon
Amekudzi, Adjo Akpene
Guensler, Randall L

Pagination:

26p

Publication Date:

2008

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (17) ; Tables (10)

Geographic Terms:

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Subject Areas:

Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-1325

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 29 2008 3:41PM