Integrating Sustainability into the Transportation Planning Process

The conference brought together 70 people from across the transportation, energy, environmental, land use, planning, and public policy communities?at national, state, and local levels and from the public and the private sectors?to exchange perspectives on the challenges and potential solutions to the challenges of integrating sustainability concerns into the transportation planning process. These conference proceedings contain the welcoming remarks by Jim Shrouds and David L. Greene, a brief summary of the keynote address by Thomas B. Deen, presentations on transportation sustainability indicators, reports on concurrent sessions and a panel discussion, summaries of the comments of the luncheon speakers Lewis Dale and Emil Frankel, a list of the posters from the poster session, and two resource papers. After the conference, the Transportation Research Board Committee for the Conference on Introducing Sustainability into Surface Transportation Planning convened to develop its findings, which were based largely on the presentations and discussion at the conference. The committee's findings and recommendations are included in these proceedings. They are organized into four sections: Issues of sustainability; Vision of a sustainable transportation system; State of the practice; and Strategies for integrating sustainability concepts into transportation planning.