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Part of the concept of sustainability involves choices: walking,
biking, commuting. Making multiple modes work in harmony with
environmental needs and economic realities - without losing
the human factor from the equation - is the real challenge."At this time of fiscal constraint,
the New York State Department
of Transportation [NYSDOT]
must make some tough choices.
To guide our decisions, we have
incorporated the 'triple bottom
line' of economic competitiveness,
social equity and environmental
stewardship into our programming
and investment guidance. NCHRP's
A Guidebook for Sustainability
Performance Measurement for
Transportation Agencies provided
NYSDOT with a much-needed
methodology and comprehensive
list to develop our sustainability
performance measures."
Debra Nelson, NYSDOT assistant to
the director of operationsustainability - a popular, emerging concept - has become a
key consideration in the delivery and operation of transportation
infrastructure, and at all levels of government. Sustainability
deals with meeting human needs in the present and future, while
preserving and restoring the environment, fostering community health
and vitality, promoting economic development and prosperity, and
ensuring equity among population groups and over generations."Sustainability is a way of looking
at other costs that don't always get
considered in the decision-making
process. Thinking about these costs
should be broader than just the tangible
dollars," says Tara Ramani, assistant
research scientist with the Texas
Transportation Institute (TTI). "The
question is less 'how can we implement
sustainable transportation?' but really
more 'how can transportation support
the principles of sustainability?'"Ramani, along with the international
team led by Joe Zietsman, head of TTI's
Environment and Air Quality Division,
produced a sustainability guidebook
that teaches transportation practitioners
the principles of sustainability, how
to develop goals and objectives based
on sustainability, and how to apply
performance measures for these goals.
A Guidebookfor Sustainability
Performance Measurementfor
Transportation Agencies provides a10 TEXAS TRANSPORTATION RESEARCHER
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