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On this page, please share any national (or regional or local) examples of attempts to monitor SDG 9.1.2

Country Experiences

United States

The Office of management and Budget (OMB) submits the data for all of the SDG Indicators for the United States to the United Nations. The latest data submitted are here, and the source data for the passenger volumes are here.

Freight Volumes

"When the SDGs first came out it was very unclear as to what freight data specifically the United Nations was looking for.  We have submitted data on tonnes rather than tonne-kilometers, because at the time of our first submission we had more recent tonne data than tonne-kilometer data.  After consultation with Canada and Mexico, and seeing the direction that WP.to come...6 is heading in, we plan to switch to tonne-kilometer data in next year’s reporting.  The freight data are estimates developed through our Freight Analysis Framework: https://www.bts.gov/faf."

Passenger Volumes

"We submitted data for highway, air, transit, and rail. Pedestrian and bicycle data are not included in our submission. Ferry boat data are included under transit, but not other types of vessels, such as cruise ships.  Air data are only reported for domestic air service.  We did not breakout the data beyond simply highway, air, transit, and rail. The passenger data are tracked by a variety of data programs within the U.S. Department of Transportation, and then compiled together in the attached Table 1-40M.

 Additional Indicators: None

Background

Sustainable Development Goal 9, with its targets and indicators: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg9.

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