Sustainable Transportation for Tourism: Indicators & Standards, Green Certification Programs, and Simulation Modeling (Part 1)

Transportation engineers often study patterns for routine daily travel: to work, to school, for social activities and errands. In this project an experienced interdisciplinary team tackles the issue of sustainable transportation in the context of tourism. The researchers propose a model built on a matrix-based approach to define varying levels of sustainability where "indicators" are organized into a three-fold framework of environmental, social, and economic considerations. A range of "standards" for these indicators is arrayed across the matrix. Researchers are focusing on three types of geography where tourism travel is significant: tourist towns, scenic corridors and national parks. By incorporating indicators and standards a Level of Service (LOS) style metric can be extended to tourist travel. Researchers are also considering marketing aspects of tourist travel behavior. Provision of more sustainable transportation such as a certified Green Coach is hypothesized to not only affect tourist travel decisions but to also provide public education and community/economic development.

• Record URL:
  http://www.uvm.edu/trc/university-transportation-center/utc-current-project-list/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • url part 1: http://www.uvm.edu/~transctr/research/trc_reports/UVM-TRC-13-011.pdf url part 2: http://www.uvm.edu/~transctr/research/trc_reports/UVM-TRC-13-012.pdf

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $137861.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT06-G-0018

  022025

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Troy, Austin

  Aultman-Hall, Lisa

• Performing Organizations:

  UVM Transportation Center

  University of Vermont
  210 Colchester Avenue
  Burlington, VT  United States  05405
• Principal Investigators:

  Manning, Robert

• Start Date: 20070801
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20090131
• Source Data: RiP Project 14747

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway capacity; Level of service; Research projects; Sustainable development; Sustainable transportation; Tourism; Tourists
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cultural landscapes
• Geographic Terms: New England
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01569213
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: UVM Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: DTRT06-G-0018, 022025
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 2 2015 1:01AM