Transportation Infrastructure Project Sustainability Factors and Performance

Transportation infrastructure projects often involve considerable land use, long-term investment, and huge resource. These elements may cause serious impacts to the environment and social dislocation. Hence, its involvement towards sustainable development efforts is essential. This paper attempts (1) to review transportation infrastructure project sustainability factors and performance, and (2) propose a relationship framework between sustainability factors and performance for Malaysia railway infrastructure projects. The results from the literature show that, sustainability factors and performance can be categorized under environment, economic, social, engineering/resource utilization and project management. The findings will promote the sustainability strategies implementation particularly in Malaysia railway project. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.