Sep 2026· Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A Systems· Vol 152· 0 citations· 69 references
Abstract
Transportation infrastructure and systems in the United States (US) are increasingly challenged by climate change, aging infrastructure, and rapid urbanization, necessitating planning approaches that integrate both long-term sustainability and short-term resilience. However, most existing frameworks have evaluated these concepts independently, limiting their effectiveness for holistic decision-making. This study proposed a quality prioritization index (QPI) framework that unified sustainability and resilience into a single quantifiable index using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP). Through an extensive literature review, 49 resilience factors were identified and systematically categorized into four dimensions: absorptive capacity, adaptive capacity, restorative capacity, and equitable access. A structured FAHP-based survey was administered to transportation professionals across diverse geographic regions, and their opinions were analyzed using FAHP to obtain factor weights and to prioritize them. These weights were used to develop the resilience prioritization index (RPI). The RPI was subsequently integrated with an existing sustainability prioritization index (SPI) to construct the unified QPI framework. The proposed framework was demonstrated through a case study of five US Gulf of Mexico–adjacent states—Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—and its robustness was evaluated using sensitivity analysis. The results revealed that financial preparedness, interagency coordination, strategic resource allocation, and multichannel communication were the most influential factors for transportation system resilience. The case study demonstrated notable regional variations, with Florida exhibiting the highest QPI value, indicating comparatively lower overall transportation system quality, while Alabama and Louisiana showed higher overall quality. Sensitivity analysis further revealed that QPI outcomes were highly responsive to varying sustainability and resilience weights. The QPI framework provides transportation planners and policy makers with a practical decision–support tool for identifying high-impact intervention areas and strategically allocating resources to simultaneously enhance long-term sustainability and short-term resilience.
Urban infrastructure maintenance is critical for ensuring the long-term sustainability, safety, and performance of cities. However, many developing countries continue to rely on traditional maintenance approaches that are reactive and inefficient. Rapid urbanisation, population growth, and climate change have placed significant pressure on infrastructure systems, highlighting the need for more sustainable and proactive maintenance strategies. This study develops a framework for sustainable urban infrastructure maintenance by integrating environmental, economic, resilience, and technological considerations. A qualitative research approach was adopted through a systematic review of secondary data from peer-reviewed literature, policy documents, and infrastructure management studies. Key themes relating to sustainable infrastructure maintenance were identified and synthesised into a decision-support framework. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed as a multi-criteria decision-making tool to evaluate and prioritise maintenance strategies. The analysis considered four main criteria: environmental impact, economic efficiency, resilience and adaptability, and technology integration. Results from the AHP analysis indicate that environmental impact is the most influential criterion, while climate-resilient infrastructure emerged as the highest-ranked maintenance strategy. The study demonstrates how multi-criteria decision-making techniques can effectively support the development of sustainable infrastructure maintenance frameworks. The proposed framework provides practical guidance for policymakers, engineers, and urban planners seeking to improve infrastructure resilience and sustainability in rapidly urbanising regions.
O. D. Adetola, O. A. Awodele, M. Khahledi et al.· 2026: Transforming Construct...· 0 citations
Sustainable road infrastructure is essential for supporting urban mobility, environmental quality, safety, resilience, and long-term economic performance. However, existing road sustainability assessment models often emphasize environmental, technological, and economic aspects while providing limited attention to governance and climate resilience. This study aimed to identify dominant sustainability dimensions, compare major road rating systems, and develop an integrated framework for sustainable urban road assessment. A quantitative systematic literature review was conducted using Scopus-indexed publications from 2000 to 2026, following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines. From 202 retrieved records, 188 unique records were screened, and 134 documents were included for performance analysis, dimension-based content analysis, and keyword co-occurrence mapping. The results showed that the environmental dimension was the most frequently addressed aspect (56.0%), followed by innovation and technology (45.5%) and economics (37.3%). In contrast, governance (7.5%) and climate and disaster resilience (6.7%) were the least represented dimensions. A comparison of the Greenroads, INVEST, and Envision rating systems also indicated limitations in adapting these frameworks to developing-country contexts. The study concludes that sustainable road assessment requires a more balanced and context-sensitive framework integrating environmental, technical, social, safety, economic, resilience, governance, and innovation dimensions. Such an approach can better support sustainable urban infrastructure development, particularly in Indonesia, and provide a foundation for future empirical validation in Indonesian cities.
Unknown authors· Jurnal Sosial Teknologi· 0 citations
Rapid urbanization, climate-related hazards, and increasing pressure on freshwater resources have intensified concerns regarding the sustainability of urban infrastructure systems in the Philippines. Many cities continue to experience recurring flooding, water supply challenges, inadequate wastewater management, aging utility infrastructure, and fragmented governance arrangements that complicate integrated planning and service delivery. These conditions highlight the need for innovative approaches that can simultaneously improve climate resilience and support low-carbon urban development. This study aimed to examine the potential of Blue-Green Plumbing Infrastructure (BGPI) as a sustainable urban water management strategy and assess its contribution to the development of resilient and carbon-neutral Philippine cities. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework. Relevant international and Philippine studies were analyzed to evaluate the technical, environmental, institutional, and professional dimensions of BGPI implementation. Particular attention was given to the role of Registered Master Plumbers (RMPs) in the planning, design, operation, maintenance, and regulatory compliance of sustainable water infrastructure systems. The findings demonstrate that BGPI offers multiple environmental and operational benefits. These include improved water conservation, reduced dependence on potable water supplies, lower energy requirements for water treatment and distribution, enhanced stormwater management, increased ecological value, and greater resilience to climate-related risks. The review also indicates that BGPI can support carbon-neutral development by improving water-use efficiency and reducing the energy intensity of urban water systems. However, its broader adoption remains constrained by institutional fragmentation, limited policy integration, financial barriers, insufficient technical standards, and capacity gaps among stakeholders. The study concludes that integrating BGPI into urban planning, building regulations, and water governance frameworks can significantly strengthen urban resilience and sustainability in the Philippines. Achieving wider implementation will require stronger regulatory support, enhanced professional capacity, and greater collaboration among government, industry, and academic institutions.
Jonathan de Jesus Cabardo, EnP, RMP, Pe· International journal of re...· 0 citations
Food systems in disaster-prone areas face recurrent systemic disruptions that threaten sustainability in a long-term, especially in disaster-prone areas and agricultural production centres. While the Triple Layered Business Model Canvas (TLBMC) integrating economic, environmental, and social dimensions, its sustainability-oriented focus can be further enhanced by incorporating resilience mechanisms to address multiple disruptions. This research aims to fill this gap by proposing the integration of the resilience layer into TLBMC. Food hubs are placed as aggregation nodes that have a dual-function, i.e., humanitarian response and commercial food distribution. This study uses an empirical qualitative case study in West Java Province, Indonesia to develop and refine the proposed framework. Empirical findings are used to test the applicability, contextual relevance, and practical implications of the resiliences, to enhanced TLBMC framework. The proposed framework incorporates of resilience layer consisting of robustness, adaptability, recovery, and reconfigurability. These resilience dimensions extend the logic of conventional business model beyond efficiency optimization to adaptive system capable of maintaining their functionality under uncertainty. The findings suggest that achieving sustainability requires not only the integration of economic, environmental, and social value dimensions but also resilience capabilities that enables organizations to mitigate disruptions, adjust operations, and accelerate recovery. The findings indicate that food hubs may contribute to improving coordination, supporting food accessibility, and enhancing supply chain resilience during disruptions. This study contributes to business model and food system resilience literature by extending the TLBMC with a resilience layer and provides practical guidance for designing resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food hubs in high-risk areas. Further research should validate the proposed framework through simulations-based modelling and develop measurable operational indicators for each resilience dimension.
F. R. Hermiatin, Tomy Perdana, B. Onggo et al.· Frontiers in Sustainable Foo...· 0 citations
Despite the growing importance of community resilience, there remains a lack of integrated and data-driven frameworks capable of assessing resilience from a sustainable development perspective and supporting decision-making at the municipal level. To address the challenge of evaluating community resilience through an integrated framework grounded in sustainable development dimensions, this study proposes a framework for assessing community resilience through a multicriteria decision-making approach. The methodology integrates economic, environmental, social, and institutional indicators, entropy weighting, the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), and gap analysis to generate community resilience indices and identify priority areas for intervention. The framework was applied to municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, a region recently affected by large-scale climate-related disasters. The results revealed significant disparities in resilience levels among the municipalities analyzed while gap analysis enabled the identification of critical weaknesses and development priorities for each municipality. The study contributes to the resilience assessment literature by integrating sustainability dimensions, objective weighting through entropy, TOPSIS, and diagnostic gap analysis into a unified decision-support framework that provides a replicable and data-driven tool for evaluating community resilience, supporting public policy formulation, investment prioritization, and strategies aimed at strengthening sustainable and resilient communities.
Rocha Paz Tainá da Silva, L. Gavião, N. C. R. Bergiante et al.· Sustainability· 0 citations
Water management in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions (ASARs), specifically in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, has historically relied on large-scale, centralized systems that have successfully expanded potable water access. However, their high energy intensity, escalating operating costs, and limited flexibility amid increasing climate variability have raised concerns about their long-term sustainability. In this context, decentralized water systems (DWSs), including rainwater harvesting (RWH), greywater reuse (GWR), and hybrid rainwater–greywater systems (HRGSs), offer promising solutions to reduce pressure on centralized infrastructure, enhance dry-season water availability, and mitigate urban flooding risks. Despite their strategic relevance, a comprehensive sustainability assessment framework tailored to GCC conditions remains insufficiently developed. To address this gap, a systematic review of literature indexed in Scopus, Engineering Village, and Google Scholar was conducted. Thirty studies met the inclusion criteria and were critically analyzed to identify prevailing assessment approaches and recurring sustainability dimensions. Building on these findings, this study proposes a regionally tailored, multi-criteria sustainability framework designed specifically for GCC contexts. The proposed framework integrates five core dimensions, including technical, environmental, economic, social, and political–institutional, comprising 14 indicators and four sub-indicators. To refine and validate the framework, a two-round Delphi technique was conducted. A total of 102 experts from GCC member states were invited, of whom 43 participated in the first round, and 25 completed the second round. The results demonstrated strong consensus regarding the relevance and applicability of the selected indicators, with particular emphasis on technical and environmental dimensions. Notably, the lack of agreement on equal weighting in the first round justified the adoption of a ranking-based weighting approach in the second round, enabling a more realistic representation of expert consensus. The final DWS index, developed using a hierarchical multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach, integrates criterion weights, indicator weights, and performance scores into a single composite metric. The results indicate that HRGSs achieved the highest overall performance (55.00), followed closely by GWR (54.76) and RWH (54.20). Overall, the proposed framework provides a robust and context-specific tool to support sustainability assessment and inform policy development for DWSs in the GCC region.
Fatemah Dashti, Soroosh Sharifi, D. Hunt· Sustainability· 0 citations
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