期刊名称：The Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA)
电子版ISSN：1520-5509
出版年度：2005
卷号：7
期号：01
出版社：Institute of Sustainable Development in Africa
摘要：This paper is an endeavor to identify and characterize national public and private transport
sustainability. Using a pioneer measure for sustainable development (SD), based on the conformity of
the growths of all sectors with the transport aspects, the selected countries are comparatively studied.
The proposed measure, elasticity, is the indicator of “harmonic development” reflecting sustainability.
Using individual elasticities, composite sustainability indices were suggested. Then, for comparative
appraisal, country groupings were developed. The results of the paper are used to find show-cases for
countries with respect to public and private SD. The methodology may be applied to any other time
and geographic scope for addressing pertinent issues for balancing and SD of transport systems.
关键词：Road transport, sustainable development, transport policy, public transport, private
transport, comparative analysis.
