TY - GEN
T1 - Sustainability quantification system
T2 - 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Creating Infrastructure for a Sustainable World, ICSI 2014
AU - Naganathan, Hariharan
AU - Chong, Oswald
AU - Schrock, Steven D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Sustainable practices have become the cornerstone of the transportation sector and widely adopted by many states' transportation agencies. Sustainable practices have now become the edifice of the transportation sectors, but the adoption of such practices is not fast enough to overcome the ever-increasing global demand for resources. There are numerous sustainable policies and rating systems, and most of them follow similar approaches and formats that outline the sustainability factors. This paper proposes a quantitative approach to measure and evaluate sustainable performance of the transportation sector. The paper makes an extensive analysis on carbon emissions when treated by total population and gross domestic product (GDP). The evaluation focuses on the transparency of sustainability through measurement and quantification of sustainability rather than to develop standard compliance approaches. These measurement and quantification approaches would allow transportation agencies to measure and thus reduce their carbon footprints.
AB - Sustainable practices have become the cornerstone of the transportation sector and widely adopted by many states' transportation agencies. Sustainable practices have now become the edifice of the transportation sectors, but the adoption of such practices is not fast enough to overcome the ever-increasing global demand for resources. There are numerous sustainable policies and rating systems, and most of them follow similar approaches and formats that outline the sustainability factors. This paper proposes a quantitative approach to measure and evaluate sustainable performance of the transportation sector. The paper makes an extensive analysis on carbon emissions when treated by total population and gross domestic product (GDP). The evaluation focuses on the transparency of sustainability through measurement and quantification of sustainability rather than to develop standard compliance approaches. These measurement and quantification approaches would allow transportation agencies to measure and thus reduce their carbon footprints.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84915751006&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84915751006&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784478745.104
DO - 10.1061/9780784478745.104
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84915751006
T3 - ICSI 2014: Creating Infrastructure for a Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure
SP - 1097
EP - 1107
BT - ICSI 2014
A2 - Hendrickson, Chris
A2 - Crittenden, John
A2 - Wallace, Bill
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 6 November 2014 through 8 November 2014
ER -