Abstract
Transportation sustainability is centered on being the linchpin to cultivate innovations and enhance safer environmental standards. The public and private agencies adopt sustainable practices integrating their policies in order to elevate sustainability performances. There is an advent need of developing a tool for quantifying the transportation policies and practices. This paper explains (1) the fundamental practices adopted by different transportation agencies; (2) the impacts of three pillars on developing the sustainable indicators; (3) the selection of indicators and their grouping; and (4) the statistical relationship between indicators with the real-time variables population and GDP. This performance benchmark aims to quantify the sustainability practices of the state and its transportation agencies by assessing their environmental, social, and economic practices. The paper examines the relationship between the selected sustainable indicators and establishes the framework for the sustainability of transportation. This framework is a starting point for adding more relevant indicators to measure the sustainability of transportation when data become available.
Highlights
Year 2020 adopt sustainable practices integrating their policies in order to elevate sustainability performances
The transportation sector is the bloodline of the U.S economy, and the sustainability of this sector has an enormous impact on its growth
The level of sustainability adopted by different state agencies cannot be quantified and measured. These policies and practices can be quantified using sustainable indicators, which is selected with the available data from reliable sources
Summary
Social variables refer to the social dimensions of community, society, or region and include education, equity, and access to social resources, health and wellbeing, quality of life, and social capital (Flaper, 2009). The purpose of sustainable policies renewable energy production facilities across the state optimizes the environmental, economic, and social of California (Caltrans, 2013), and the Texas Department benefits of the transportation systems (OECD, 2000). Transportation (GDOT) developed research facilities in Sustainability rating systems are generally order to elevate the green material technology in designed to perform a specific function, for specific transportation infrastructure and focused on Asphalt projects and repairs, and to achieve specific goals. These areas target different environmental and social of the thriving programs that have been developed impacts such as habitat protection and enhancement, specific to an organization's operations, environmental storm water management, material use, and reuse, needs, local context, and sustainability philosophy, and context-sensitive design, light pollution, noise they are still being used extensively (Hirsch, 2011). C) Specification of the rating system and their integration with the transportation projects There are numerous rating systems developed in different parts of the world according to their specific
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