• Sustainable Development Principles and their Impact for Transport. Technical paper that places transportation in the context of sustainable development principles. February, 1999 (Ecological Economics, Volume 19, Issue 3, December 1996) (available for purchase).
• Moving Toward Sustainability: Transforming a Comprehensive Land Use and Transportation Plan. Technical paper that contains an approach for developing measures and steps to transform a traditional community-based comprehensive land use and transportation plan into one incorporating sustainable development objectives and measures. January, 2007. (Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board)
• Financing and Implementing Sustainable Development: A Local Planning Approach. Technical paper containing a primer of innovative methods for the development, finance, and implementation of sustainable development. October, 1999. (Texas Transportation Institute) 
• Weak Versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms. This book explores two economic paradigms of sustainable development – “weak sustainability” and “strong sustainability.” March, 2003. (Edward Elgar Publishing)
•  Parsons Brinkerhoff Document on Sustainable Development. Technical report covering various aspects of sustainable development as they relate to various sectors. November, 2004.
•  Transportation Invest in our Future. Visioning report by AASHTO that sets out the challenges to future mobility and potential solutions. July, 2007.

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• Sustainability Peer Exchange Report, Resources (Center for Environmental Excellence by AASHTO) - A summary report and other resources from the May 2009 Sustainability Peer Exchange. The peer exchange included discussions about partnerships across all modes and levels of government, planning and designing more efficient multi-modal systems, using "green" construction, and effective maintenance practices. (August 2009)
• Innovative Practices for Greener Roads - This report, published by the International Road Federation, documents innovative projects, products, and practices from around the world that demonstrate sustainability in the road transport sector. (July 2009)
• Infrastructure 2009: A Pivot Point - This report, the third in an annual series of infrastructure reports by The Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young, recommends the development of a new 21^st-century national infrastructure strategy that overhauls current federal policy and integrates land use and planning. (April 2009)
• PB’s Highway Sustainability Checklist [ZIP] - This checklist was selected by AASHTO as the winning U.S. entry in the Sustainable Development category for the 2007 World Road Association’s (PIARC) International Competition. The checklist was developed in response to growing interest in an objective, non-prescriptive, broad-based tool that would support the integration of environmental stewardship practices and CSS into day-to-day highway-related practices.  The checklist is a compendium of possible measures associated with various phases of highway projects—from planning to design, through construction, operations and maintenance.  It is meant to facilitate decisions about the extent to which highway improvements might incorporate measures that go beyond satisfying minimum functional requirements by addressing contextual factors which contribute to sustainability of the natural, built, and human environments. The checklist is flexible and may be adapted to individual agencies or specific project applications.
• Defining Sustainable Transportation by Center for Sustainable Transportation. This report provides a brief review and analysis of some current definitions of sustainable transportation. March, 2005. (The Centre for Sustainable Transportation, prepared for Transport Canada)
• Sustainable Transport - Journal of Transport Geography. This paper considers the issue of sustainable transport in the European and North American contexts, and suggests areas for comparative research projects. June, 1998. (available for purchase)
• Promoting the Concept of Sustainable Transportation within the Federal System. This paper argues that a major obstacle to progress toward sustainable transportation is the lack of an integrated approach to decision-making within the federal system. August, 2006. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering Systems Division, Working Paper Series)
• Issues in Sustainable Transportation. This paper identifies issues related to the definition, evaluation and implementation of sustainable transportation. 2006. (International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2006)

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Indicators of Sustainable Development - Guidelines and Methodologies. This report provides a detailed description of key sustainable development themes and the development of indicators of sustainable development for use in decision-making processes at the national level. (United Nations Division for Sustainable Development)

Sustainable Transportation Performance Indicators. This effort resulted in the publication of three reports dealing with a review of world wide development, a stakeholder workshop, and the actual development of indicators. December, 2002. (Centre for Sustainable Transportation)

Indicators for Transportation and the Environment and Sustainability in North America. This report deals with the use of performance planning and performance indicators in the area of transportation and the environment in the U.S. and Canada. October, 2000. (National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark)

Sustainable Mobility and Indicator Systems in Transport Policy. This article focuses on indicators and monitoring frameworks applied in the transportation sector and explores a limited number of indicator systems presently in use. June, 2003 (available for purchase). (International Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 176)

DISTILLATE Sustainability Reports. The objective of this series of reports is to demonstrate ways of overcoming the barriers to the effective development and delivery of sustainable urban transport and land use strategies. July, 2004. (Design and Implementation Support Tools for Integrated Local Land Use, Transport and the Environment (DISTILLATE) is one of 14 research programmes funded under the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s overarching research programme on the development of a Sustainable Urban Environment.)

Environmental and Sustainable Development Indicators for Canada. This report describes a small suite of national-level indicators that were developed to help sustain a healthy economy, society and environment for Canadians. 2003. (National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy)

Sustainable Transportation: Conceptualization and Performance Measurement. This report provides a definition for sustainable transportation and a framework on how to identify, quantify, and use performance measures for sustainable transportation in the transportation planning process. March, 2002.  (Texas Transportation Institute)

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