Summary of Research Findings: Assessing and Comparing Environmental Performance of Major Transit Investments
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
5-2012
Subject Area
place - north america, planning - environmental impact, policy - environment
Keywords
Decision making, Environmental impacts, Investments, Metrics (Quantitative assessment), Public transit, Transit projects
Abstract
This digest presents the results of Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project H-41, Assessing and Comparing Environmental Performance of Major Transit Investments. The research was undertaken to offer decision makers optional criteria, metrics, and methods for assessing transit projects with regard to environmental performance. The first phase of research included a literature review, interviews with stakeholders, a review of four recent transit project alternatives analysis documents or environmental impact statements, an enumeration of potential metrics, and development of a more detailed approach to screening and selecting metrics. In the second phase of research the selected metrics were tested on six pilot projects.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract and link to the report has been given by Transportation Research Board, Washington, copyright remains with them
Recommended Citation
Porter, C. (2012). Summary of Research Findings: Assessing and Comparing Environmental Performance of Major Transit Investments. Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 105:
