In response to The Rio Agenda 21 and The Kyoto Protocol, Taiwan government has formulated important policies and set up implementation guidelines for national sustainable development over the past few years. This paper presents the policies and strategies that Taiwan has endeavored to pursue environmental, social, and economic sustainability. In transportation sector, some important undertaking...

Transportation and its environmental impacts are a major component of urban environmental management. At the same time, transportation and mobility are an important part or urban economics and the quality of life. To analyse urban transportation and its environmental impacts, a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach is needed. No single model can cover the range of spatial and temporal scale...

We consider the continuing increase in the use and density of automobiles (more vehicles with fewer people in them travelling greater distances over proportionally shorter roads) in relation to transportation sustainability and quality of life. The social dilemma perspective views this trend as the outcome of an unfortunate preference for short-term gains by car users at the cost of long-term l...

ii Acknowledgements The research team would like to acknowledge Dr. Tao Sun of the department of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont for his significant contribution helping to design this project, build the survey, analyze the data, and co-author academic papers on the findings. We also want to thank University of Vermont professor Curt Ventriss of the Rube...

Ride-share systems, which aim to bring together travelers with similar itineraries and time schedules, may provide significant societal and environmental benefits by reducing the number of cars used for personal travel and improving the utilization of available seat capacity. Effective and efficient optimization technology that matches drivers and riders in real-time is one of the necessary com...

today, transportation of hazardous materials (i.e., hazmat) is a very important issue for researchersdue to the risk of this transit, which should be considered for development of industries and transportation.therefore, a model that is useful should consider the risk and damage to humanitarianand environmental issues due to transit of hazmat materials. by considering the related cost, thereali...

In industrialized nations, transportation systems depend on global resources for their support and growth. Yet this dependence has resulted in environmental and social imbalances that are now large and pervasive. It is widely accepted that motorized transportation is not environmentally sustainable, yet there is little discussion of the sustainability of modern transport from a social perspecti...

Promoting physical activity and sustainable transportation is essential in the face of rising health care costs, obesity rates, and other public health threats resulting from lack of physical activity. Targeted communications can encourage distinct population segments to adopt active and sustainable transportation modes. Our work is designed to promote the health, social, and environmental bene...

With increasing urbanization in China, many cities are facing serious environmental problems due to continuous and substantial increase in automobile transportation. It is becoming imperative to examine effective ways to reduce individual automobile use to facilitate sustainable transportation behavior. Empirical, theory-based research on sustainable transportation in China is limited. In this ...