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Incorporating Sustainability in Transport Planning. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 176
An increasing number of agencies are taking steps to
incorporate the concept of sustainability in the
regional transportation planning process. Planning
for sustainable transportation systems should at the
very least incorporate their broader impacts on
system effectiveness, environmental integrity,
economic development, and the social quality of
life. This book reviews definitions, performance
measures, and evaluation methodologies for
transportation system sustainability and
demonstrates a framework for incorporating
sustainability considerations in transportation
planning and decision making. Through a case study
using data from the Atlanta Metropolitan Region, the
study evaluates competing transportation and land
use plans based on a broad range of sustainability
parameters using spatial/environmental analyses and
multicriteria decision making methods. The analysis
should help shed some light on this emerging area,
and should be especially useful to
professionals/decision makers in Transportation
fields, or anyone else who may be interested in
sustainable transportation systems.
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