Sustainable Transportation Attainment Index: multivariate analysis of indicators with an application to selected states and National Capital Territory (NCT) of India

Ubaid Illahi () and Mohammad Shafi Mir ()
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Ubaid Illahi: National Institute of Technology Srinagar
Mohammad Shafi Mir: National Institute of Technology Srinagar

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2021, vol. 23, issue 3, No 32, 3578-3622

Abstract: Abstract There is an increasing demand for quantifying, evaluating and reporting sustainability of transportation systems, especially in case of developing countries. However, sustainable transportation being a complicated area of concern is becoming equally challenging. In this concern, the quantification of the sustainable transportation attainment levels covering three pillars of sustainability (i.e., Environmental, Social and Economical) is useful. The main aim of this paper is to develop a model which can quantify and report the attainment levels of sustainable transportation and which is flexible, robust, comprehensive as well as transferable. In this line, a five-stage model is presented which produces a composite index called Sustainable Transportation Attainment Index (ISTA). Using ISTA, transportation system of various zones can be evaluated, compared and tracked. The shortlisting and finalizing of optimum number of zones and sustainable transportation indicators (STIs), in this study, were done by a proposed tool called Bargain Matrix. STIs were broadly classified into three sustainability pillars which were further divided into ten subdivisions. This study used a total of 116 STIs, which were normalized using rescaling method, weighted and aggregated using principal component analysis/factor analysis. The proposed five-stage model was applied to 26 states and National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, India (i.e., a total of 27 zones). Based on the computed ISTA, while Tamil Nadu (0.6002), Telangana (0.5613) and Andhra Pradesh (0.5580) showed “Best Relative Transport Sustainability Attainment,” Goa (0.3852) and Chhattisgarh (0.4278) showed “Weakest Relative Transport Sustainability Attainment.”

Keywords: Sustainable transportation; Indicator sets; Frameworks; Principal component analysis; Factor analysis; Composite index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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