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8 S E C T I O N 2 2.1 Methodology To identify potential social and economic sustainability performance measures and transit agency practices relating to social and economic sustainability, the research team conducted a literature review and held interviews with select transit agency representatives. Specifically, the research team reviewed recent literature related to transit and transportation performance measures, reviewed sustainability reports prepared by transit agencies within and outside of the United States, and conducted interviews with representatives from eight transit agencies that focus on the environment/sustainability.
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State of the Practice 9 • Sustainability performance metrics/indicators/measures/metrics for transit/public transportation/transportation, • Social and economic benefits of transit/public transportation, and • Transportation quality of life performance measures/metrics. The research team placed particular emphasis on information from a report by Todd Litman titled Well Measured: Developing Indicators for Sustainable and Livable Transport Planning (Litman 2016)
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10 Social and Economic Sustainability Performance Measures for Public Transportation: Final Guidance Document No. Resource Title Author orPublisher Year Highlights Literature Reviewed 1.
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State of the Practice 11 (continued on next page)
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12 Social and Economic Sustainability Performance Measures for Public Transportation: Final Guidance Document Transit Agency Publications 16. Dallas Area Rapid Transit: Telling Our Sustainability Story (Presentation)
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State of the Practice 13 No. Resource Title Author orPublisher Year Highlights 25.
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14 Social and Economic Sustainability Performance Measures for Public Transportation: Final Guidance Document within a transit agency. Table 4 lists the transit agencies interviewed in order of largest to smallest based on annual passenger trips.
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State of the Practice 15 for performance management. Transportation agencies' efforts to adopt broadranging sustainabilityoriented performance measures have largely evolved as a result of public demand, which has caused the agencies to take a highly individualized and independent approach to sustainabilityoriented performance measurement.
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16 Social and Economic Sustainability Performance Measures for Public Transportation: Final Guidance Document of developing performance measures periodically. Once measures have been identified, those measures should be used to inform goals, objectives, targets, and outcomes on a regular basis.
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State of the Practice 17 • Performance measures do not necessarily need to be tracked at the same intervals in order to be relevant. For some measures, data may be reasonably collected on a frequent basis.
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18 Social and Economic Sustainability Performance Measures for Public Transportation: Final Guidance Document • Social and economic measures may include items that are not within the agency's area of control. Several of the transit agencies interviewed commented on this challenge.
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State of the Practice 19 for Standardization (ISO) 14001 Environmental Management System Standard and the GRI Standards (GRI 2018)
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