SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES OF TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS:A REVIEW.

Development as standalone feature has got no status, unless it is sustainable. When we speak the term development, it includes active actions in various sectors like medical field, information technology, education sector, space exploration programmes, etc. etc. But, one field which is an inherent part of every such field is the transportation sector. With the development of society and for the development of society at all the fronts, a sustainable transport system is most vital component connected to every other field and without which the development in any other sector cannot be sustainable. During the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Sweden (1972), the prospects for growth in the human population and the global economy were described. It said that if the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, then the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next 100 years. However, it is possible to achieve ecological and economic stability that is sustainable far into the future. In order to evaluate the sustainable transportation system, various approaches have been proposed worldwide in various conferences research programmes and other transportation boards. These approaches/ research works undertaken till date all over the world have been reviewed and summarized in this paper.