Road Network Performance (RNP) impacts economic, ecological, and social sustainability. Nonetheless, models for road transport cost estimation often fail to account for the regional specificity of RNP. While the availability of suitable tools, data sources, and computational capacities to measure concrete RNP on a wide scale has steadily increased across a multitude of academic fields, it remains unclear why researchers and practitioners alike do not leverage them more heavily to improve

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... ions of transportation impact. This dissertation integrates achievements on the topic of location intelligence to develop and present efficient methodologies for incorporating diverse data sources to allow for better estimation of RNP and its impact on the economic and ecological dimensions of sustainability.