NCHRP Impacts on Practice: A Long-Term View of Sustainability

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest Impacts on Practice explores NCHRP Report 750, Volume 4: Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies explores sustainability as a “triple bottom line” of environmental, economic, and social sustainability. The summary explores how the California Department of Transportation and New York State Department of Transportation applied the findings of Report 750, Volume 4 to reframe and better coordinate activities and priorities involving sustainability across departments.