Sustainability Factors and Performance

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Assa Amiril
Abdul Hadi Nawawi
Roshana Takim
Siti Nur Farhana Ab. Latif

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A Transportation infrastructure projects often involve the considerable land use and huge resource that can cause serious impacts to the environment and social dislocation. Hence, implementation of sustainable factors is essential. This paper attempts (1) to review infrastructure project sustainability factor and performance, and (2) to propose a framework of relationship between the sustainability factors and performance for railway projects in Malaysia. The results from the literature show that sustainability factors and performance can be categorized under environment, economic, social, engineering/resource utilization and project management. 

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Amiril, A., Nawawi, A.H., Takim, R. and Ab. Latif, S.N.F. 2018. Sustainability Factors and Performance. Asian Journal of Quality of Life. 3, 9 (Jan. 2018), 151–160. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i9.86.

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