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46 A Guidebook for Sustainability Performance Measurement for Transportation Agencies
RATING SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
The following eight transportation sustainability systems were reviewed as part of this research:
· FHWA's Sustainable Highways,
· Sustainable Transportation Access Rating System (STARS),
· Greenroads,
· GreenLITES,
· Illinois Livable and Sustainable Transportation System and Guide (I-LASTTM),
· Green Guide for Roads,
· BE2ST-in-HighwaysTM, and
· GreenPave.
The sustainability rating systems were selected for review based on the following criteria: (1) the
rating system primarily focuses on transportation, (2) the rating system is owned and/or was
developed by an agency, university, or nonprofit organization, and (3) the rating system has or
will undergo some form of peer review.
Rating systems with a broader land development or civil infrastructure component [such as
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND),
ASCE's rating system, the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment and Award
Scheme (CEEQUAL), and the Sustainable Sites Initiative] or that apply only to a specific mode
(such as APTA's Transit Sustainability Guidelines) were not selected for review. Table 6
summarizes the existing systems. Appendix F provides further information.
Table 6. Existing sustainability systems.
System Name System Owner Launch Date Type of Rating System
FHWA Sustainable FHWA October 2010 Self-evaluation
Highways
STARS The North American Expected mid-2012 Third-party certification
Sustainable
Transportation Council
Greenroads Greenroads Foundation January 2010 Third-party certification
GreenLITES NYSDOT 2008 State DOT administered
self-evaluation system
I-LAST Illinois Department of 2010 Self-evaluation
Transportation
Green Guide for Roads Transportation Expected September Self-evaluation
Association of Canada 2011
BE2ST-in-Highways University of Wisconsin 2010 Self-evaluation
GreenPave Ministry of 2010 Self-evaluation
Transportation of
Ontario
