Sustainability Assessment of Transport Infrastructure Projects: A Review of Existing Tools and Methods

Bueno, Paola Carolina; Vassallo, José Manuel; Cheung, Kevin

doi:10.1080/01441647.2015.1041435

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“…Finally, seven sector‐related literature reviews present sustainability assessment approaches and models that apply sustainability indicators to heavy and civil engineering construction (Bueno et al. ), animal production and aquaculture (Samuel‐Fitwi et al. ), food manufacturing (Springer et al.…”

Section: Discussing the State Of Social Life Cycle Assessment Indicatmentioning

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“…Finally, seven sector-related literature reviews present sustainability assessment approaches and models that apply sustainability indicators to heavy and civil engineering construction (Bueno et al 2015), animal production and aquaculture (Samuel-Fitwi et al 2012), food manufacturing (Springer et al 2015), and other multiple sectors (Brandenburg et al 2014;Brandenburg and Rebs 2015;Tajbakhsh and Hassini 2015b). However, only Macombe and colleagues' (2013) review has a dedicated social focus on SLCA and social indicators in chemical manufacturing (biofuel production), whereas the other sector-related reviews focus on the overarching sustainability performance in each sector.…”

Section: Resource Dependence Theorymentioning

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Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

Kühnen

Hahn

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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Summary Industrial ecology (IE) and life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) are increasingly important in research, regulation, and corporate practice. However, the assessment of the social pillar is still at a developmental stage, because social life cycle assessment (SLCA) is fragmented and lacks a foundation on empirical experience. A critical reason is the absence of general standardized indicators that clearly reflect and measure businesses’ social impact along product life cycles and supply chains. Therefore, we systematically review trends, coherences, inconsistencies, and gaps in research on SLCA indicators across industry sectors. Overall, we find that researchers address a broad variety of sectors, but only few sectors receive sufficient empirical attention to draw reasonable conclusions while the field is additionally still largely an a‐theoretical one. Furthermore, researchers overlook important social core issues as they concentrate heavily on worker‐ and health‐related indicators. Therefore, we synthetize the most important indicators used in research as a step toward standardization (including critical challenges in applying these indicators and recommendations for their future development), highlight important trends and gaps (e.g., the focus on worker‐ and health‐related indicators and the a‐theoretical nature of the SLCA literature), and emphasize critical shortcomings in the SLCA field organized along the key phases of design, implementation, and evolution through which performance measurement approaches such as SLCA typically progress in their development and maturation. With this, we contribute to the maturation and establishment of the social pillar of LCSA and IE.

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Section: Discussing the State Of Social Life Cycle Assessment Indicatmentioning

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Section: Resource Dependence Theorymentioning

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Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

Kühnen

Hahn

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

156

114

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“…Some countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, and South Korea have developed their criteria of green road tools by adopting rating tools, such as Green Road, Green Lites and I-LAST, respectively [19], [12], [20]. INVEST and BES 2 In Highway rating tools are included to assess the transport sector [20]. TABLE I for the list of 5 rating systems.…”

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Toward Sustainability: Green Road Construction in Indonesia

Djalante¹,

Oneyama²,

Arsyad³

2020

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Transportation Studies in Developing Countries (ISTSDC 2019)

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Road construction projects can affect directly to the degradation of the environment for causing emission, pollution, and congestion. Green road rating is the tool to measure the performance of green practices and the level of greenness on road construction projects. However, the implementation of the tool to identify how far the green concepts applied in road construction projects still lack in Indonesia. Thus, this research aims to review the extent of the implementation of green road tool in its contribution to the achievement of sustainability goals. The objectives of this research are to determine the level of the greenness of roads by clustering 12 roads and to identify the performance of each main category and subcategory related to the areas of success and the areas in need of improvement based on points obtained. Two methods used in this research are the descriptive method and cluster analysis. The research shows that the level of the greenness of 12 roads is a good adoption of green practices, in which 3 roads are awarded gold stars, and 9 roads are awarded silver stars. In addition, main categories of environment, construction, and material are more implemented than transportation and pavement among the road clusters. While the performance of subcategories namely ecological protection, economic and accessibility are more successful than resource efficiency, safety and environmental quality related to pavement and construction activities. Hence, the implementation of the green road in Indonesia has contributed more to the achievement of natural goals than human goals. Ultimately, policy recommendation is needed for improvement.

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“…The main aim of SA is to ensure that plans and activities make an optimal contribution to sustainable development [82]. SA has increasingly become a common practice in various areas, such as product, policy, and institutional appraisals [70], as well as in project evaluations [8]. As a concept, sustainability generally denotes a balance of economic, social, and environmental goals with a long-term (intergenerational) concern [34,70].…”

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A systematic review of indicators to assess the sustainability of road infrastructure projects

Suprayoga

Bakker

Witte

et al. 2020

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Background: This study aims to examine to what extent sustainability has been incorporated into assessments of road infrastructure projects. It identifies promising approaches that include indicators reflecting core sustainability criteria, determines criteria that were insufficiently covered as indicators, and develops an integrated indicator set covering all criteria. Methods: A systematic review was performed to obtain all related papers/reports in two academic databases: Scopus and Web of Sciences. The indicators extracted from papers/reports were first coded, then evaluated by using quantitative and qualitative content analysis. Results: The project appraisal methods for decision-making is found to be a promising approach, covering more extensive criteria than others. Two criterianamely adaptation and precaution and intergenerational equitywere hardly ever adopted as indicators. Ten main groups of indicators were extracted to construct an integrated set incorporating all core criteria. Conclusions: Some criteria appear to have become mainstream, while others deserve attention. The safest choice is to combine methods/tools or to adopt the integrated set developed for exhaustive criteria inclusion.

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Sustainability Assessment of Transport Infrastructure Projects: A Review of Existing Tools and Methods

Cited by 118 publications

References 79 publications

Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

Toward Sustainability: Green Road Construction in Indonesia

A systematic review of indicators to assess the sustainability of road infrastructure projects

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