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原文传递 Developing Sustainable Transportation Performance Measures for ALDOT.

题名：	Developing Sustainable Transportation Performance Measures for ALDOT.
作者：	Anderson, M.; Leonard, K.; Toutanji, H. A.
关键词：	Aggregates; Alabama; Economic Factors; Economic Forecasting; Energy Use; Fuel Consumption; Greenhouse Gas; Highway Construction; Performance; Policies; Regulations
摘要：	Sustainable transportation is generally used to refer to transportation that contributes to the sustainable development of the community that owns and uses the system. The Transportation Research Board defines sustainability as: Sustainability is not about threat analysis; sustainability is about systems analysis. Specifically, it is about how environmental, economic and social systems interact to their mutual advantage or disadvantage at various space-based scales of operation. The research project was designed to establish a baseline understanding of the potential for using sustainability performance measures in the Alabama Department of Transportation. Quite a number of sustainability initiatives have discussed various definitions and performance measures of sustainable transportation systems, but very few regional agencies have developed planning tools that successfully incorporate sustainability in the transportation sector. This study develops a working definition of sustainability from various proposed definitions, and demonstrates a feasible methodology for evaluating and quantifying sustainability performance measures, thus incorporating sustainability considerations into the regional transportation decision-making process.
报告类型：	科技报告