NSU Research Contributions

Title : An Index for Sustainable Urban Transportation with Reviews, Analyses, and Recommendations

Authors : Md Shoaib Chowdhury

Abstract : Urban transportation policies must support the principles of sustainable development to ensure sustainable mobility. Previous studies proposed composite indices such as transport sustainability index (TSI), sustainable urban mobility index (SUMI) and sustainable urban transport index (SUTI) to measure the level of sustainable mobility in an urban area. This paper critically reviews and analyses existing indices and proposes a framework to measure urban transportation sustainability index. The major contribution of this work is the development of the framework itself, which comprises indicators from five different domain areas including social, economic, environmental, and political/ institutional /governance as well as urban transportation systems and services characteristics. The indicators may be flexibly selected considering the relevance of a particular urban area‘s (city‘s) development context. Such a flexibility would help a city to assess its own sustainable mobility goals and priorities in a unique way, given its existing state of transportation developments. Also, the index can be applied in any urbanized area (e.g., megacities as well as medium and smaller size cities and towns) of developed and developing nations. The future work would be to develop comprehensive guidelines on how to collect data for each indicator in an efficient and cost-effective manner and implement the proposed methodology.

Journal :	Volume :	Year : 2019	Issue :
Pages : 74-79	City : Dhaka	Edition :	Editors : Rafiqul Islam
Publisher : Science, Technology and Management Crest, Australia	ISBN : 978-0-6482681-4-7	Book :	Chapter :
Proceeding Title : 1st International Conference on Sustainability in the natural and built environment (iCSNBE-2019, Dhaka)	Institution :	Issuer :	Number :