The overall project goal of guiding planning and management of transportation to serve the needs of
sustainable tourism focused on three tourism-related transportation contexts. The first context was
selected types of roads important to tourism in the northern New England: park and related roads (e.g.,
the Loop Road in Acadia National Park, Maine), rural roads/Scenic Byways (e.g., Route 100 in Vermont),
and rural sections of interstate highways (e.g., Interstate 89 in Vermont). The second context was
selected tourism destinations important in Vermont and other tourism-dependent northern
communities: tourism villages (e.g., downtown destinations like Stowe and Burlington). The third
context was transit public transit in park settings (e.g., the Island Explorer in Bar Harbor, Maine). Case
studies from these three contexts served as the focus for the creation of a level of service framework.
Two tourism-related transportation contexts were the focus for examination of components necessary
in a green certification program to affect change in tourist travel. The first context applied to
transportation systems within parks and scenic roads. The second context was transportation options in
tourism villages and ski resorts. Within these two contexts, “green” alternatives for mass transit and
tourism-related motorcoach travel were examined.