Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 4: Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies (2014) / Chapter Skim
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23 In 2009, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) allocated $7 million to conduct research on long-range strategic issues, both global and domestic, that will likely affect state DOTs.
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24 Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies The framework will also provide a means for agencies to assess their future capacity to meet society's demands and provide or identify tools and approaches that agencies may use to assist them in making changes they deem appropriate and necessary to meet rapidly changing needs and conditions. To accomplish these objectives, the research performed the following activities: • Identified potential alternative future scenarios in which transportation agencies will be asked to achieve sustainability goals in providing for economic vitality, social well-being, and environmental integrity [the triple bottom line (TBL)
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Introduction 25 • This report is not intended to propose specific policies, programs, or guidelines that can be followed to deliver a more sustainable society or sustainable transportation; it focuses on the factors affecting the functional capabilities of transportation agencies to support a sustainable society and how those capabilities can be addressed, given plausible future scenarios. • This report provides recommended strategies and methods to help agencies anticipate evolution of a TBL sustainability policy system, and to act in the near term to prepare transportation agencies to best support a sustainable society in the future.
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26 Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies Finally, while this project primarily focuses on state transportation agencies, it also addresses the broader institutional and political environments in which they operate (e.g., the relationship between state executives, legislatures, interest groups, business interests) and other types of transportation agencies, such as regional transportation agencies, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs)
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Introduction 27 • Sustainable transportation -- "A sustainable transport system [is] defined as one that (1)
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28 Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies a large number of diverse indicators. Integrating all of these indicators and communicating a credible overall scorecard presents very complex and difficult weighting and normalization challenges.
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Introduction 29 sustainability initiatives being pursued today versus a vision of a future TBL societal sustainability policy system. The "strong" and "weak" sustainability definitions depend fundamentally on the treatment of social, environmental, and economic stores of capital value to the public.
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