Social and Economic Sustainability Performance Measures for Public Transportation: Final Guidance Document

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Unger ◽  
Adrienne Heller ◽  
Leigh Blackmon Lane ◽  
Deborah Matherly ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Guidance Document ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Final Guidance

scholarly journals Urban form and economic sustainability in housing projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmed Abdel Ghaffar ◽  
Noha Ahmed Abd El Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Urban Economic ◽  
The Impact

AbstractUrban areas in metropolitan cities like Cairo suffer from economic, social, and environmental predicaments. Urban economic sustainability is an approach that reforms the urban performance to gain direct benefits such as minimizing costs and maximizing profits and indirect benefits as better social, environmental, and cultural aspects. This research suggests applying such an approach to enhance Egyptian housing projects. The main research question is how to evaluate the economic sustainability of urban forms?. The study presents a “Sustainable Urban Economy model” (SUE model) linking urban fabric, land use pattern, transportation, and street network design with economic sustainability. Research methods and tools include interviews (Delphi method) with 25 urban planning/design and urban economic experts to refine the model. Results show the most effective components of the urban form on economic sustainability (accessibility and degree of permeability, population density, built, and the impact of sub-indicators on the main components. Moreover, results indicate that the seven most influential indicators are the built-up to total space ratio, mixed-use ratio, built-up ratio, population density, floor area ratio, degree of accessibility, and public transportation. Experts suggested values for the seven indicators to measure how the urban form can achieve high economic, environmental, and social performance in the Egyptian context.

Farmer field schools for improving economic sustainability performance of Indonesian vegetable production

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joko Mariyono ◽  
Hanik Anggraeni Dewi ◽  
Putu Bagus Daroini ◽  
Evy Latifah ◽  
Arief Lukman Hakim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Project ◽  
Double Difference ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Farmer Field Schools ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Sustainable Technologies ◽  
Double Differences ◽  
Field Schools

PurposeA research and development project disseminated ecological technologies to approximately 3,250 vegetable farmers through farmer field schools (FFS) in four districts of Bali and East Java provinces of Indonesia. This article aims to assess the economic sustainability of vegetable production after FFS participation.Design/methodology/approachA survey randomly sampled 500 farmers, comprised of FFS participants (50%) and non-FFS participants (50%). Based on 1,000 farm operations, this analysis employed input-saving technology as the fundamental model examined using the double-difference method. Simultaneous reduction of agrochemicals and improvement of productivity represent indicators of economic sustainability.FindingsResults indicate that pesticide use decreased without jeopardising farm productivity; moreover, vegetable production increased. These findings indicate that the ecological technologies transferred through FFS significantly improved economic sustainability performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis study purposively selected farmers who grew tomato and chilli. Thus, the outcomes are not generalisable to other crops.Practical implicationsFFS continues to be an effective method for transferring agricultural technologies to farmer communities. Policymakers are recommended to use FFS for disseminating beneficial and sustainable technologies to broader agricultural communities.Social implicationsThe adoption of ecological technologies provides positive economic and ecological milieus.Originality/valueThis study employs a double-differences approach to verify input-saving technological progress. Therefore, the performance of economic sustainability attributable to the project intervention is theoretically justified.

scholarly journals Sustainability Assessment of Autonomous Regions in China Using GRA-SPA Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 11008
Author(s):  
Ruxue Shi ◽  
Pingtao Yi ◽  
Weiwei Li ◽  
Lu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Western China ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
The Status ◽  
Autonomous Regions ◽  
The Ideal

Sustainability development is a core issue in autonomous regions’ construction and development. The paper evaluated the sustainability development of the five autonomous regions in Western China from 2010 to 2019. In order to further analyze the sustainable development level of the autonomous regions, it is compared with the three provinces with the largest GDP in Central China in the past three years, and similarly, with the three provinces in Eastern China. A new weighting method was proposed by combining the grey relational analysis (GRA) and set pair analysis (SPA) methods that not only analyze the correlation between indicators and ideal points but also analyze the status and development trend. The method can ensure the objectivity of indicator weight. Firstly, the ideal reference point is determined by the grey correlation degree between the indicator and the ideal positive point. Secondly, the indicator and the ideal reference point constitute a set pair system, and the relation number is used further to analyze the status and development trend of the indicator to determine the weight objectively. The sustainability results showed that the progress of the autonomous regions’ sustainable development in China was increased slowly in 2010–2019. For example, Ningxia and Xinjiang saw the slowest growth. The prime reason is that economic sustainability has declined severely. Although Inner Mongolia presented the highest increasing trends, the growth rate value was 0.75%. In contrast, other autonomous regions showed a negative growth trend. Regarding sustainable development in three dimensions, the economic sustainability performance of autonomous regions is not ideal, but the environmental sustainability performance is the most ideal. This conclusion implicates the necessity and urgency of improving the coordinated development of the three dimensions of autonomous regions in China.

Performance Measures and Level of Transit Service Assessment of Public Transport Bus Network in Baghdad City during 2002-2003

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Tan Yiqiu ◽  
Lihui Qin ◽  
Imad Ismael ◽  
Ali Naser
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Total Delay ◽  
Running Speed ◽  
Transit Service ◽  
Bus Network ◽  
Transit Performance ◽  
Bus Travel Time

Buses of General Company for Passenger Transport was the primary mode for public transportation in Baghdad City. This system suffers from many problems, part of which were related to bus routes, while the other part was related to the bus and its operators. These problems have a direct effect on the users of public transport buses. The objective of this study was to assess the performance of eight public transport bus routes which they represented by the Al-Tahrir bus network and adopting the level of the transit service method. Seven transit performance measures were selected in this study, such as bus travel time, hours of service during the day, service frequency (headway), total delay on the route, running speed of the bus, bus occupancy, and capacity of the route. The results of this study showed that bus routes No. (72, 36, 13, 114, 11, 30, 37, and 9) were operating at overall Level of Transit Service LOTS (D, E, E, E, E, D, E, and E) respectively, whereas the bus network (Al-Tahrir bus network) was operating at overall LOTS (E); therefore, the performance of Al-Tahrir bus network was not acceptable, and improvements were needed to increase the level of transit service of this network.

Measurement of sustainability performance in the public sector

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Adams ◽  
Stephen Muir ◽  
Zahirul Hoque
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Global Reporting Initiative ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Perceived Need

Purpose – This article identifies current performance measurement practice within state, territory and federal government departments in Australia with a particular emphasis on the importance of sustainability performance measures. Whilst voluntary sustainability reporting by private sector organisations aligned, for the most part, with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines is growing, there is little sustainability reporting by organisations in the public sector. This raises questions as to the extent to which public sector sustainability performance is managed. This research aims to assess the use of sustainability performance measures for supporting organisational performance improvement. Design/methodology/approach – A mail out survey approach has been adopted within government departments. Findings – The performance measures utilised by organisations to a great extent were in the areas of cost efficiency and quality measures and those utilised to least extent were for learning and growth measures and to satisfy legislative requirements and manage programs. Sustainability, environmental or social responsibility measures are the least used performance measures, and those utilised are mainly measures of employee diversity and non-financial economic aspects that are identified. Practical implications – The public sector is unlikely to adopt comprehensive sustainability performance measures while they remain voluntary and while there is no perceived need to be competitive in these areas. Either mandatory reporting is required or some form of competitive process based on performance measures implemented. Originality/value – The findings make a contribution to the academic literature on sustainability performance measures in public sector organisations and point to policy measures that may lead to improvements in practice.

scholarly journals A Stairway to the Stars: Monitoring Sustainability Performance in SMBs

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Robinson ◽  
Brad P. Nikolic
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Management By Objectives ◽  
Sustainability Index ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Management Models

This article proposes a framework that can be used, or modified for use, as a mechanism to measure, evaluate and monitor progress in business sustainability. It draws upon previous change management models, such as ‘Management by Objectives’ (Lynch, 1977; Felix and Riggs, 1983) and ‘Balanced Scorecard’ (Kaplan and Norton, 1995), proposing a conceptual framework for the monitoring of business sustainability. The framework allows sustainability improvement to be monitored by means of a composite sustainability index derived from specific metrics appropriate to a range of prioritised strategic objectives. It then discusses the necessity for such a mechanism to be sufficiently robust in respect of seven contextual issues. It recommends that a firm’s choice of sustainability performance measures and their relative priorities should be aligned with global, societal, external, industry, organisational, leadership and individual-personal contexts.

THE IMPACT OF SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PRACTICES ON SUSTAINABILITY

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norsiah Hami ◽  
Mohd Razali Muhamad ◽  
Zuhriah Ebrahim
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Significant Positive Influence ◽  
Do So

This study aims to empirically investigate the impact of sustainable manufacturing practices (SMP) on sustainability performance (SP) among manufacturing firms in Malaysia. Drawing from the theoretical lenses of stakeholder theory, the present study advocates the three pillars of sustainability, encompassing economic, environmental, and social sustainability, in measuring firm performance. Using PLS-SEM approach, the survey data collected from 150 firms were analyzed. The findings reveal that both underlying variables of SMP, internal SMP and external SMP, have positive and significant impact on environmental and social sustainability. Surprisingly, while internal SMP proof the significant positive influence on economic sustainability, external SMP failed to do so. Theoretically, the study contributes to the sustainable manufacturing literature by demonstrating the relationship between SMP and sustainability performance (SP). Practically, the study is beneficial for practitioners in understanding the diverse aspects of SMP and SP, identifies the strengths and weaknesses of their current SMP, and provides a guideline in improving their performance. 

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