期刊
TRANSPORT REVIEWS
卷 41, 期 5, 页码 659-684出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2021.1879309
关键词
Sustainability assessment; sustainability indicator; urban transportation; urban mobility; transportation sustainability; urban planning and policy
资金
- Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation
The research on urban transportation sustainability assessments is mainly focused on Europe and single cases, lacking qualitative methods and stakeholder diversity. A large number of indicators are identified in the articles, but there is significant variation in their use. The research field is fragmented and has not fully operationalized the concept of sustainability.
The volume of urban transportation sustainability assessments in academic literature has steadily increased over the last two decades. This paper targets these studies through the first systematic literature review to construct a synthesised and critical overview of how urban transportation sustainability is in fact assessed. The sample consists of 99 peer-reviewed articles retrieved via three scientific search engines. The results reveal a Europe-centric and single-case focus, a strong interest to introduce new indicator systems with limited references to previous work, and a lack of qualitative approaches and stakeholder diversity regarding the assessment methods. Nearly 2400 indicators are identified in the articles with significant variation in their use. Furthermore, the comprehensive accounting for sustainability is often overlooked, and the inconclusive assessment results are often noted by the authors of the sample articles themselves. Our findings signal that the research field is highly fragmented and to some extent fails to accumulate knowledge generated by past studies and to comprehensively operationalise the concept of sustainability. The identified shortcomings of the assessments and their implications for transportation policy-making and planning are highlighted, and based on our results recommendations to develop more reliable, comparable, and inclusive sustainability assessments for the urban transportation sector are made.
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