Sustainability Indicators

ODOT MOSAIC Least Cost Planning Tool has a number of good metrics, identified here:

FHWA has a pretty good sourcebook describing metrics and Indicators to Reduce GHG emissions:

US EPA Smart Growth (@EPAsmartgrowth) New Sustainable Communities Census Hot Report helps you assess your community's performance on sustainability indicators: 

Proposed metrics for performance measurement:

• The CS report 2008

• Also the white paper from ADD40(1)—”Return on Investment: Lessons for Transportation from Other Sectors”

The new NCHRP Report # 780 is a guidebook for performance measures related to sustainability:

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_708.pdf

Note: The CD-ROM included with this guidebook

contains an Excel-spreadsheet-based version of the performance measures compendium

located in Appendix B of the guidebook. The spreadsheet allows the existing measures to be

modified, and macros enable the user to generate and export a custom list of measures.

Instructions for using the spreadsheet are found in Appendix C.