Incorporating Sustainability in Transport Planning

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.

Autorentext
Christy Mihyeon Jeon, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering specialization in Sustainable Transportation Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2007). Master of City Planning at Seoul National University, South Korea (2002). Transportation Engineer at Parsons Corporation, Atlanta.

Klappentext
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.