Transportation Sustainability is a fast-growing field and new bodies of knowledge are constantly emerging. The following list contains a number of publications that provide a useful overview of the concept of sustainable transportation.
Foundational Text
- Amekudzi, A. A., M. D. Meyer, C. L. Ross & E. Barrella. 2011. Transportation Planning and Sustainability Guidebook. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Transportation.
- Banister, D. (2008) The sustainable mobility paradigm. Transport Policy, 15(2): 73–80.
- Banister, D. 2005. Unsustainable Transport: City Transport in the New Century. London: Routledge.
- Benfield, F. K. & M. Replogle. 2002. Transportation. In Stumbling Towards Sustainability, ed. J. C. Dernbach, 647-665. Washington, D. C.: Environmental Law Institute.
- Black, W. R. 2010. Sustainable Transportation: Problems and Solutions. New York: The Guilford Press.
- Black, W. R. (1996) Sustainable Transportation: A U.S. Perspective. Journal of Transport Geography, 4, 151-159.
- Booz Allen Hamilton (2014) National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 4: Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies. McLean, VA: Booz Allen Hamilton.
- Caid, N., P. Crist, R. Gilbert & P. Wiederkehr (2002) Environmentally Sustainable Transport: Concept, Goal and Strategy—the OECD’s EST Project. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Transport, 153, 219–226.
- European Commission (EC). 1992. Green Paper on the Impact of Transport on the Environment: A Community Strategy for Sustainable Mobility. BrusseIs: Eurpoean Commission.
- European Council. 2001. 2340th Council Meeting – Transport/Telecommunications – Luxembourg, 4-5 April 2001. Belgium: Council of the European Union.
- Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P., Marsden, G., and Zietsman, J. (2015) Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management. Springer or Samfundslitteratur.
- Gudmundsson, H. & M. Hojer (1996) Sustainable Development Principles and their Implications for Transport. Ecological Economics, 19, 269-282.
- Hall, R. P. 2006. Understanding and Applying the Concept of Sustainable Development to Transportation Planning and Decision-Making in the U.S. Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Holden, E., K. Linnerud & D. Banister (2013) Sustainable Passenger Transport: Back to Brundtland. Transportation Research Part A, 54, 67-77.
- NCHRP Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation:
- McVoy (2016) Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies: Transportation as a Means, Not an End
- Volume 1: Scenario Planning for Freight Transportation Infrastructure Investment
- Volume 2: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and the Highway System: Practitioner’s Guide and Research Report
- Volume 3: Expediting Future Technologies for Enhancing Transportation System Performance
- Volume 4: Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies
- Volume 6: The Effects of Socio-Demographics on Future Travel Demand
- National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). 1999. National Research Agenda for Transportation and Sustainable Communities. Washington, D.C.: Executive Office of the President, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Committee on Technology, Subcommittee on Transportation Research and Development, Transportation and Sustainable Communities Team.
- Nijkamp, P. (1994) Roads Toward Environmentally Sustainable Transport. Transportation Research, Part A, 28, 261-271.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 1997. OECD Proceedings. Towards Sustainable Transportation. The Vancouver Conference, 24-27 March 1996. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
- Sperling, D. and Gordon, D. 2010. Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Zietsman, J.; Ramani. T.; Potter, J; DeFlorio. J.; Reeder, V (2011). A Guidebook for Sustainability Performance Measurement for Transportation Agencies, NCHRP Report 708. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.