Thursday, December 1, 2011

Published: A Guidebook for Sustainability Performance Measurement for Transportation Agencies

I am pleased to inform you that “A Guidebook for Sustainability Performance Measurement for Transportation Agencies” was published this week by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). UAP’s own Ralph Hall, Ph.D. was part of the research team. This guidebook was prepared for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP Report 708) and is available at the TRB Website: http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/166313.aspx. This research project was led by the Texas Transportation Institute and draws on the expertise of a diverse team of researchers and academics – Cambridge Systematics, CH2MHill, High Street Consulting, Dr. Henrik Gudmundsson, Dr. Greg Marsden, Dr. Ralph Hall and Dr. Steven Muench.

The Guidebook provides a practical approach to understanding sustainability, and identifying and applying sustainability-related performance measures. The Guidebook also discusses linkages to an agency’s mission and strategic plan, and the integration of these sustainability measures into other programs and agency business practices. The Guidebook provides a generally-applicable framework that transportation agencies can adapt and use, either in their existing performance measurement programs or as a part of a new sustainability initiative. The guidebook also contains a compendium of sustainability performance measures, with a menu of goals, objectives and performance measures that agencies can use as the basis for their performance measurement applications.

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