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Sustainability has become an overarching concern for transportation policy and planning around the world. Like sustainable development, the concept of sustainable transportation is broadly defined, which permits policies and practices to be labeled as ‘sustainable’ while pursuing business as usual approaches. Thus, there is a pressing need to better integrate and apply sustainability principles to transportation. Performance measurement frameworks offer an effective way to do this.
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For example, see Replogle (1991), Black (1996, 2010), Gudmundsson and Hojer (1996), Button and Nijkamp (1997), UKRTSD (1996), Greene and Wegener (1997), Whitelegg (1997), Black and Nijkamp (2002), Hoogma et al. (2002), Steg and Gifford (2005), RAE (2005), Banister (2005), Hall (2006), Barrella et al. (2010), Amekudzi et al. (2011), Zietsman et al. (2011), Holden et al. (2013), and Booz Allen Hamilton (2014).
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This is especially the case in emerging economies where the development of rural roads is considered to be essential for connectivity and economic development (Faiz 2012).
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See the European Union’s efforts to promote Sustainable Urban Transport Plans, http://ec.europa.eu/environment/urban/urban_transport.htm (accessed 6/2/2014).
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These indicators are provided as an appendix to the main NCHRP report.
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Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R.P., Marsden, G., Zietsman, J. (2016). Introduction. In: Sustainable Transportation. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46924-8_1
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