Lucas, K, Brooks, M, Marsden, G et al. (1 more author) (2007) Assessment of capabilities for examining long-term social sustainability of transport and land use strategies. Transportation Research Record, 2013. 30 - 37. ISSN 0361-1981
Abstract
The development of transport and land use strategies tends to rely, to a large degree, on inputs from large strategic models. Although it is commonplace for such models to assess the economic and environmental impacts of transport strategies, few provide any real understanding of their social impacts. This paper reports on a study that aims to improve how the social sustainability of transport strategies is considered. The study is part of a wider project conducted to improve the ability to assess the overall sustainability of transport decisions. It describes the fourstage method that was adopted. The approach is pioneering, focusing as it does on accessibility to key services and facilities as a primary measure of social sustainability. Nevertheless, the approach has a number of serious limitations in both selecting indicators and applying them in practice. It is also clear from the experiences with adapting the outputs of state-of-the-art models that the technical capacity for assessing the social implications of transport continues to fall well short of the technical capacity for assessing the economic and environmental impacts of strategies. A series of recommendations to improve the technical capacity in this respect is provided.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2007, National Academy of Sciences. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Transportation Research Record. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 May 2014 11:18 |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2016 15:13 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2013-05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | National Academy of Sciences |
Identification Number: | 10.3141/2013-05 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:78968 |