The globalisation of sustainable development requires the use of transferable indicator systems which help in finding a balanced solution to the conflicts between the objectives of economic, environmental and social sustainability.This paper serves as a methodological basis for building an indicator system, in phases, which enables:• the assessment and follow-up of the sustainability of the transport sector in its threefold dimension: economic, environmental and social; • the synchronic and diachronic comparison of the indicators;• setting critical and desirable threshold values: and objective values for realistic progress towards those desirable values. To achieve these objectives, we recommend using an iterative cycle of the indicator: generation and selection, technical construction, application, development and finally, communication, transfer and use.As an example of the methodology, we show: • an example of two blocks of indicators of a social nature.• the development of a subset of road accident indicators, applied in several geographic areas throughout Europe and Spain.
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