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Summary and Additional Resources 47
Chapter 9
Summary and Additional Resources
This guidebook
SUMMARY
provides a flexible
framework through While many transportation agencies recognize the importance
which transportation of sustainability, they often struggle to apply the concepts of
agencies can apply sustainability in their core activities. This guidebook provides a
the concepts of flexible framework through which transportation agencies can
sustainability through
performance apply the concepts of sustainability through performance
measurement. The measurement. The guidebook provides the resources needed to
guidebook and establish and use sustainability performance measures and to
accompanying gauge the effectiveness of strategies to address sustainability.
materials provide the The guidebook was developed keeping in mind that every
resources neede d to
successfully
transportation agency has different resources and goals and
implement the faces different challenges to incorporating sustainability. The
framework. topics covered include
· Understanding the principles of sustainability and its
relevance to transportation agencies;
· Understanding the use of performance measurement for
sustainability;
· Describing how an agency can get organized and take a
practical, phased approach to implementing
performance measurement for sustainability, keeping
the resources they have in mind; and
· Understanding and applying the sustainability
performance measurement framework.
Various other tools and resources, such as a compendium of
performance measures (included in Appendix B and as an
electronic spreadsheet on the CD-ROM that accompanies this
