Volume 1, Issue 2 — Year 2024 — Article e100023

Mohammad Alami Parvin¹; Akbar Shokir Tazehkand²; Murad Ramiz Ahmadoglu³

1. Faculty of Engineering, Maragheh University of Technology, Maragheh 5518183111, Iran
2. Department of Civil Engineering Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz 5158913791, Iran
3. Department of Geography and Ecology, Lankaran State University, Lankaran 50, Azerbaijan

Building and maintaining highways can have major effects on the environment, society, and economy. To reduce these impacts and encourage sustainability, it's important to evaluate highways using a set of sustainable development indicators (SDIs). This review looks at different SDIs used worldwide to assess how highways affect the environment, focusing on areas like air pollution, noise, biodiversity, land use, and resource consumption. It discusses methods for using these indicators in environmental assessments and outlines the challenges of making highways more sustainable. The review also explores new trends in applying SDIs and stresses the need to balance environmental concerns with economic and social growth. Finally, it offers suggestions for better incorporating SDIs in highway planning to support long-term sustainability.

Sustainable development, Environmental impact, Sustainability, Environmental management, Infrastructure