U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced an interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities to help improve access to affordable housing, more transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment in communities nationwide.
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This new initiative begs for “sustainable transportation” indicators, with “sustainability” meaning not just consideration of the transport systems themselves but also consideration for the sustainability of their contextual environments. This requires an integrated systems analysis approach and understanding how systems interact.
