Regional workshops on Sustainability Enhancement Tool

712777978PDFTech Report5-5541-01-1Transportation planningSustainable transportationTexasTexas Transportation InstituteRamani, Tara M.Zietsman, JosiasEisele, WilliamTexas Transportation InstituteTexas. Dept. of TransportationNTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Environment ImpactsNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICYUS Transportation CollectionThis report summarizes the work performed in Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 and 2010 under TxDOTImplementation Project 5-5541-01 \u2013 \u201cRegional Workshops on Sustainability EnhancementTool.\u201d TxDOT Research Project 0-5541, \u201cDeveloping Sustainable Transportation PerformanceMeasures for TxDOT\u2019s Strategic Plan\u201d was the basis for this implementation project. Theresearch project findings are documented in a detailed technical report available at:http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-5541-1.pdf. Overall, the research dealt with developingperformance measures for sustainability at the highway corridor level. The performancemeasures were aligned to TxDOT\u2019s strategic plan, and methods for quantifying, normalizing,and combining the performance measures into a corridor-level sustainability index were alsodeveloped as part of the research