Sustainability governance indicator-based framework for public transport companies in developing countries.

This paper aims at creating a sustainability governance framework to assess the public transport companies in developing countries. In contrast to previous research studies, governance criteria, namely transparency and accountability, are involved in the sustainability assessment. Eventually, four dimensions of key performance indicators are suggested: economic, environmental, institutional and social. Each of them describes a completely different perspective of sustainable development. A numerical illustration is provided at the end to evaluate three public transport companies from a developed country to give an overview of the framework implementation using simple additive weighting method. • A sustainability governance indicator-based framework for public transport companies is designed. • This framework may promote for a sustainable transport companies particularly in developing countries. • This framework integrates the main pillars of transport sustainability and governance in one model. • Economic, environmental, social and institutional dimensions are involved through a set of up-to-date SMART indicators. • Transparency and accountability, are namely involved in this framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]