A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degreeof Master of Engineering inTransportation Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology

Thesis (M. Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2016

Sustainable transportation planning is one of partstoward sustainable development and it considers economic, social and environmental impacts from travel activities. It, in common with transportation planning, relieson indicators. As a growing interest in sustainable transportation in East Asia and Pacific, this research develops sustainable transportation index for developing countries in East Asia and Pacific and applies it to AEC countries representatively. This thesis focuses on selecting targets for developing countries. Because of infrastructure gaps, sustainable transportation targets of developing countries should be different from those of developed countries. In specific,developed countries are reducing land usesdevoted transport system nowbut developing countries are expanding transportation networksbecause they have development potential. In other words, the existing sustainable transportation targets based on fully developed infrastructures are not suitable to developing countries.Thisthesis selects the targets of index in relation tosustainable transportation policies in East Asia and Pacific, considering the level of infrastructures. Therefore, the proposed index can form a social consensus and be suitable to lead the change of the public in East Asia and Pacific. Additionally, the thesis considers reliable and available data sourcesfor selecting sustainable transportation indicators. East Asia and pacific still lacks international data sources for sustainable transportation planning. The existing sustainable transportation indicators are sometimes not applicable to East Asia and pacificdue to limited data sources.This thesis reviews the available and reliable data sources for sustainable transportation planning and proposes the direction of data collection system for East Asia and Pacific.This thesis finally evaluates the level of sustainable transportation in AEC countriesby using the proposed sustainable transportation index. The index convertsthe indicator values of countries to sustainable transportation scores. The scores are reviewed by Simple Multi-Attribution Rating Technique (SMART). The results of countries are expressed as country reports for guidance toward sustainable transportation planning in East Asia and Pacific.