Developing sustainable transportation performance measures for TXDOT’s strategic plan : technical report.

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• Creators:
  Ramani, Tara ; Zietsman, Josias ; Eisele, William ; Rosa, Duane ; Spillane, Debbie ; Bochner, Brian
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Urban transportation
  • Sustainable transportation
  • Performance measurement Urban transportation--Texas--Evaluation
  • Traffic engineering--Texas--Evaluation
  • Performance standards--Texas--Evaluation
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-09/0-5541-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Technical report; Sept. 2006-Aug. 2008.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  For this research project, sustainable transportation can be viewed as the provision of safe, effective, and ; efficient access and mobility into the future while considering economic, social, and environmental needs. ; This project developed a performance measurement-based sustainability evaluation methodology for the ; Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT’s) strategic plan. ; The research team defined a set of objectives and performance measures that addressed the five goals of ; TxDOT’s strategic plan as well as sustainable transportation concerns. Researchers used a multi-criteria ; decision-making methodology to evaluate, benchmark, and aggregate the performance measures into a set ; of “sustainability index” values. The methodology, applicable at the highway corridor level, was integrated ; into a user-friendly, spreadsheet-based analysis tool that provided the sustainability index values (for current ; and future scenarios) as an output for a particular corridor. The analysis tool was used to carry out several ; case studies. The methodology and tool developed were found to be useful to assess progress towards ; TxDOT’s strategic plan goals while also addressing sustainability issues. The results and findings could be ; used to compare relative sustainability of different corridors, or assess the corridors over a period of time.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-5541
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16844/dot_16844_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.68 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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