Defining Sustainable Mobility, Indicators and Targets

Defining Sustainable Mobility, Indicators and

Targets

Presentation by Michael Replogle toTransforming Transportation

January 26, 2012

Goal: Achieve sustainable transport that enables universal access to safe, clean, and

affordable mobility.

Targets & Indicators at Different Scales

Challenges of considering system-wide impacts, induced demand

Optimal scale to consider system impacts for metropolitan plans/programs

Often best for evaluating large programs and system policies

Environment & Public Health Goals

Ensure global transport greenhouse gas emissions and transport sector fossil fuel consumption:

(a) peak by 2020

(b) are cut by 40+ percent by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

(c) ensure transport contributes to timely attainment of healthful air quality in all cities

• Transport-related pollution• Progress towards creating &

attaining pollution control plans• Number of days cities in non-

attainment of WHO Air Quality Guidelines (PM, NOx, Ozone)

• Share of population exposed to unhealthful air quality

• Share of funding focused on projects that reduce pollution

• Is funding tied to progress?

Possible Indicators

• Annual fossil fuel consumption • per person for personal

transport • per ton freight • by mode

Possible Indicators

• Related GHGs

• Vehicle fleet size• In-use fleet fuel efficiency• Share of funding focused on

mitigation• Is funding tied to progress?

Possible Indicators

• Mode share: trips• Mode share: passenger-km• Mode share: ton-km• Vehicle occupancy• Vehicle load factors

• Vehicle-km traveled by mode

Public Health: Safety Goal Support the Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-20) and

cut traffic-related deaths in half by 2025

• Annual traffic fatalities• Share of funding focused on traffic safety• Are managers/agencies rewarded based on

traffic safety progress achievement?

Possible Indicators

Mobility & Access Goal Ensure universal access to sustainable transport though

support for safe, affordable public transport and safe, attractive facilities for walking and bicycling.

• Mode shares• Daily time spent in travel and share of household income

spent on transport by poorest 20%• Are plans/programs/projects evaluated for distribution of

benefits and burdens?• Is funding tied to performance?

0 to $13,060 $13,061 to $25,218

$25,219 to $41,492

$41,493 to $67,516

$67,517 or higher0%5%

10%15%20%25%30%35%40%45% 42%

26%21%

17%12%

Income Quintile

Share of household income spent on transportation US 2000

Possible Indicators

• Proportion of urban roadways with safe walking & cycling facilities• Proportion of population within 1 km of public transport • Ratio of traffic deaths amongst wealthiest 20% to poorest 20%• Share of spending on walking, biking, public transport

Possible Indicators

Implementation MDBs, aid agencies, countries, cities: Adopt and monitor (a)

sustainable transport targets, (b) goals to advance equitable access for all, and report on these targets and goals.

• Quantify sustainable transport benchmarks• Collaborate in defining metrics• Advance methodologies to evaluate investments,

frame alternatives analysis, & package initiatives• Work group being formed under Partnership for

Sustainable Low Carbon Transport• Mainstreaming sustainability in road investments,

broader transport investment programs

Implementation

17Credit: Yang JIANG, Daizong LIU, Suping CHEN, Assessment Tools for China Low‐Carbon‐City Projects From the CSTC’s Perspective, 2011

1. Bike sharing

2. Bikeways

3. Pedestrian Facility Improvement

4. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)

5. Light Rail Transit/Mass Rapid Transit

6. Roads Projects – Expressways, Rural Roads and Urban Roads

7. Railways

8. Commuter Strategies, Pricing Strategies, Eco-Driving , PAYD Insurance

9. TEEMP City Model

TEEMP: Project-by-Project Tools

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Adopted by Global Environmental Facility as part of Manual for

Calculating GHG Benefits of Transport Projects

TEEMP Used to Evaluate Project & Program Impacts for Multilateral Development Bank

19Source: ADB. 2010. Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transport Projects

The SLoCaT PartnershipImprove the knowledge on sustainable, low carbon transport, help

develop better policies and catalyze their implementation

62 Members: International Organizations – Government – Development Banks – NGOs – Private Sector - Academe

African Development Bank (AfDB) * Alliance to Save Energy* Asian Development Bank (ADB) * Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) *Believe Sustainability * Cambridge Systematics Inc * Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) * Centre for Environment Planning & Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad * Center for Science and Environment (CSE) * Center for Sustainable Transport (CTS) Mexico * Center for Transportation and Logistics Studies (PUSTRAL), Gadjah Mada University * Civic Exchange (CE) * Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) Center * Clean Air Institute (CAI) * German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) * Ecofys* EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport * Energy Research Center Netherlands (ECN) * European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) * European Cyclists' Federation (ECF)* Fraunhofer- Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI)* Global Environmental Facility (GEF) * Global Transport Knowledge Partnership (gTKP)* HealthBridge* Hong Kong Shanghai Bank (HSBC) * Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) * Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-CE) * International Association for Public Transport (UITP * International Energy Agency (IEA) * International Transport Forum (ITF) * International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) * International Union of Railways (UIC) * Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) * The Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK* Institute of Urban Transport India (IUTI)* Institute for Transport Policy Studies (ITPS) Institute for Transport and Development Policy (ITDP) * Institute of Transport Studies (ITS), University of California, Davis * Korean Transport Institute (KOTI) * Ministry of Land Infrastructure Transport and Tourism, Japan * National Center for Transportation Studies (NCTS), Philippines * Rockefeller Foundation * Society of Indian Automotive Manufacturers (SIAM) * Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) * Tehran Urban and Suburban Railway operation Company (TUSROC) * The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) * Transport and Environment (T+E) * Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) * United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD) * United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) * United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) * University College of London, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering * University of Transport and Communication (UTCC) Hanoi * University of Twente/ITC (UT/ITC) * VEOLIA Transport * World Street * Wuppertal Institute* WWF International

www.slocat.net

For More Information

Michael Replogle

Global Policy Director and Founder Institute for Transportation and Development

Policy

1210 18th Street NWWashington, DC 20036 USAmichael.replogle@itdp.org

212-629-8001

www.itdp.org

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