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2 A Guidebook for Sustainability Performance Measurement for Transportation Agencies
· Gauge the effectiveness of these strategies in implementing sustainability.
HOW IS IT ORGANIZED?
Every transportation agency brings different resources, goals, and challenges to incorporating
sustainability. This guidebook allows you to quickly find the information and resources you need
to implement and evaluate sustainability. Highlights from case studies are located throughout the
chapters to provide real-world examples of how agencies are incorporating sustainability
performance measures. The appendices contain full case studies as well as other supplemental
materials that you may find useful, including a glossary of terms and examples of performance
measure use. The CD-ROM accompanying this guidebook contains an electronic compendium of
performance measures as well as a PowerPoint presentation and materials that you may want to
use to introduce sustainability concepts to your agency. These electronic materials are also
available on the NCHRP Project 8-74 website. Following is a description of the remaining
chapters of the guidebook:
· Chapter 2: What Does Sustainability Mean to Transportation Agencies? This
chapter provides an overview of the basics of sustainability, explains how these basics
relate to the work of transportation agencies, and orients any user to the principles of
sustainability.
· Chapter 3: Getting Organized--Setting Yourself Up for Success This chapter
discusses how to take a practical, phased approach to implementing performance
measurement and offers questions to assess how you can take advantage of the data and
processes you may already have in place.
· Chapter 4: Understanding the Sustainability Performance Measurement Framework
This chapter explains the general, applicable framework that you can use to design your
agency's performance measurement system.
· Chapter 5: Using the Sustainability Performance Measurement Framework This
chapter provides a step-by-step explanation of how to use each of the components of the
framework to fit your agency's needs. You can turn to the step that matches where your
agency is in the process.
· Chapter 6: Resources for Performance Measure Development and Application This
chapter presents an overview of the compendium of objectives and performance measures.
· Chapter 7: Sustainability Measures Checklist This chapter provides a checklist to
make sure your goals, objectives, and measures are consistent with the principles of
sustainability and that the approach you have designed will give you the information you
need.
· Chapter 8: Examples of Practice in Sustainability Measurement This chapter gives
an overview of the variety of work other agencies have under way and gives links to other
examples.
· Chapter 9: Summary and Additional Resources This chapter summarizes what has
been presented in the guidebook, lists other resources, and gives an overview of material
incorporated as appendices.
