A Guidebook for Sustainability Performance Measurement for Transportation Agencies

Abstract

Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly complex problems of wide interest to highway authorities. These problems are best studied through a coordinated program of cooperative research. In recognition of these needs, the highway administrators of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials initiated in 1962 an objective national highway research program employing modern scientific techniques. This program is supported on a continuing basis by funds from participating member states of the Association and it receives the full cooperation and support of the Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies was requested by the Association to administer the research program because of the Board's recognized objectivity and understanding of modern research practices. The Board is uniquely suited for this purpose as it maintains an extensive committee structure from which authorities on any highway transportation subject may be drawn; it possesses avenues of communications and cooperation with federal, state and local governmental agencies, universities, and industry; its relationship to the National Research Council is an insurance of objectivity; it maintains a full-time research correlation staff of specialists in highway transportation matters to bring the findings of research directly to those who are in a position to use them. The program is developed on the basis of research needs identified by chief administrators of the highway and transportation departments and by committees of AASHTO. Each year, specific areas of research needs to be included in the program are proposed to the National Research Council and the Board by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Research projects to fulfill these needs are defined by the Board, and qualified research agencies are selected from those that have submitted proposals. Administration and surveillance of research contracts are the responsibilities of the National Research Council and the Transportation Research Board. The needs for highway research are many, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program can make significant contributions to the solution of highway transportation problems of mutual concern to many responsible groups. The program, however, is intended to complement rather than to substitute for or duplicate other highway research programs.

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Sustentabilidade urbana no planejamento de rodovia perimetral em região metropolitana

“…Indicadores comuns de acessibilidade incluem a qualidade das opções de transporte disponíveis, distâncias médias de viagem e custos por viagem (LITMAN, 2016;RAMANI et al, 2011). O uso do solo é outro indicador de acessibilidade.…”

“…"Eles [os indicadores] traduzem dados e estatísticas em informação sucinta que seja facilmente compreendido e usado por pessoas de muito diferentes origens, incluindo engenheiros, administradores, políticos e público em geral" (RAMANI et al, 2011). Ao traduzir dados e estatísticas em um formato sucinto e consistente, as medidas de desempenho oferecem uma maneira eficiente de fornecer informações aos tomadores de decisão (EPA, 2011).…”

“…Os indicadores possuem múltiplas finalidades. Segundo Ramani et al (2011) e Zietsman & Ramani (2011, os indicadores podem ser usados como:…”

“…Dessa forma, faz-se necessária uma compreensão mais clara dos princípios de sustentabilidade e sua relação com as funções das agências de transporte, responsáveis pelo planejamento do setor. Ramani et al (2011) alerta que, embora abordar o "transporte sustentável" seja útil na perspectiva de uma agência de transporte, deve-se reconhecer que a sustentabilidade é definida por uma agenda mais ampla do que apenas o transporte e, portanto, é necessário equilibrar esta agenda com questões que são realmente relevantes para as agências de transporte, especialmente àquelas em que as mesmas possuem controle / jurisdição. O presente estudo se concentrou nas questões consideradas mais relevantes para a sustentabilidade urbana que devem ser abordadas no planejamento de transporte, com ênfase no modelo rodoviarista, dada sua reconhecida ineficiência intrametrópole e elevado impacto, diretos e indiretos, em área urbana.…”