Background and Introduction
Sustainable Development Goal 9, with its targets and indicators: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg9.
This page collects national (or regional or local) examples of ways countries are monitoring SDG 9.1.2. This includes links to National Reporting Platforms where relevant, in addition to descriptions of the country's approach.
Australia
https://www.sdgdata.gov.au/goals/industry-innovation-and-infrastructure/9.1.2
Belarus
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The indicator “freight turnover” is collected by rail, pipeline, road, air, and inland waterway transport in domestic and international service. Carried goods by rail characterizes the mass of goods in tons, transported along the road, to the sections of the road in the domestic and international service.
Further comments
Gross Value Added (GVA) under section H «Transport, warehousing, postal and courier activities» is used to calculate the gross domestic product. Therefore, in order to better characterize transport as a sector of the economy, we propose to monitor commercial freight and passenger transportation performed by all types of public transport as part of SDG 9.1.2 monitoring. As part of the monitoring of SDG 9.1.2, it is necessary to monitor commercial passenger transportation, as passenger transportation by private vehicles is not included in the GVA calculation.
A country's economy as a whole is defined in terms of institutional units. It includes all institutional units that are resident in the economic territory of the country. Therefore, in the framework of monitoring SDG 9.1.2, we propose to monitor commercial freight and passenger transportation performed by resident organizations of the republic. We propose to monitor two indicators: cargo turnover in ton-kilometres and passenger turnover in passenger-kilometres. Cargo turnover and passenger turnover are qualitative indicators characterizing not only the volume of transported cargo and passengers, but also the distance of their transportation.
Belgium
https://www.indicators.be/fr/i/G09_FTR/Transport_de_marchises_par_la_route
Canada
https://www144.statcan.gc.ca/tdih-cdit/info-network-reseau-eng.htm
Czechia
Czech Republic as a member of the EU follows the relevant EU Regulations for transport statistics. The Regulations concern road freight transport, inland waterways freight transport, rail passenger transport and rail freight transport, air passenger transport and air transport of cargo.
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Data are collected from the operators, of course they are used for analysis as well. All the strategic documents related to transport, especially the main one - Transport Policy, include measure and objectives to support sustainable transport and more environmental friendly modes of transport – rail and IWW. No more indicators have been adopted for this purpose but there are lot of supportive indicators regularly collected which can be used, e.g. information on infrastructure, vhkm, various transport breakdown.
Denmark
Estonia
https://www.stat.ee/stat-sustainable-development-indicators-9
France
The indicators which are calculated for France are:
1. indicator 9.i.1a : modal share of public passenger transport = (railways (including metros) + bus, tramways and coaches)/passengers transport in Metropolitan France
unit = passengers/kilometers (%) on a territorial principal. It does not include walking and cycling, aviation and maritime.
2. indicator 9.i.1b : modal shares of road, railway and inland water transports (/good transport in Metropolitan France)
unit = tons/kilometers (%) on a territorial principal. 2020 targets are 10,4% for railway transport and 2% for inland waterway transport. It does not include maritime and aviation.
These indicators have been adopted to monitor the 2030 Development Agenda. Besides, modal split for passenger, including air transport inside metropolitain territory, are also calculated in the report of the Commission for the Transport Accounts of the Nation.
Ireland
https://irelandsdg.geohive.ie/pages/goal9.
From Ireland's SDG Voluntary National Review 2017: "Collective transport modes [buses, coaches, trains, excluding trams] account for a share of total [Irish] passenger land transport above the EU average. However Ireland’s share of rail and inland waterways activity as a percentage of total freight transport is extremely low relative to other EU countries."
Italy
SDG report avilable in Italian here https://www.istat.it/storage/rapporti-tematici/sdgs/2020/goal9.pdf.
Kazakhstan
Moldova
At the national level, the indicator tracks data on goods in ton-km and Passengers' journey (passenger - kilometres), total, including modes of transport: rail, road (buses, taxis, trolleybuses), river and air http://statistica.gov.md/public/files/Metadate/en/Transport_en.pdf.
For road freight / passenger transport the data are disaggregated by:
- Districts, municipalities and ATU Gagauzia, economic development regions (North, Center, South);
- Destinations (domestic or international);
- Type of transport (for the carriage of goods by road - for payment or for own use);
9.1.2 is an indicator of obtaining the annual data of quality on the volume of goods transported, goods travelled, passengers transported and passengers' journey, by modes of transport. The Republic of Moldova has not adopted additional indicators regarding the target 9.1.
Netherlands
https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/publication/2018/10/the-sdgs-the-situation-for-the-netherlands
Norway
https://www.ssb.no/en/transport-og-reiseliv/statistikker/transpinn
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In addition, Eurostat is (as you probably know) calculating modal split indicators for all EEA countries based on the territoriality principle, i.e. including the part of international transports that are conducted on national territory. If this approach is considered more relevant for indicator 9.1.2 than the domestic transport scope used by Statistics Norway, I would suggest using the Eurostat figures for all EEA countries – as they are at least calculated in a harmonized way.
Portugal
Slovenia
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With existing published indicators SURS followed the Eurostat’s proposal of SDG indicators. By the end of the year 2019, some new selected indicators (modal split from passenger mobility survey and data on traffic performance) will be published on the same SDG portal to put focus on sustainable transport. At present we haven’t defined indicators which would focus on resilient infrastructure. But we might think about them in the near future.
Switzerland
United Kingdom
https://sustainabledevelopment-uk.github.io/9-1-2/.
Plans to improve reporting on the indicator, including inland transport modes.
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.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."
***Note also: USA tkm data are collected on the territorial principle.***
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.
No additional indicators.
European Commission
Approach to Monitoring the SDGs: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3217494/9237449/KS-01-18-656-EN-N.pdf/2b2a096b-3bd6-4939-8ef3-11cfc14b9329.
Passenger volumes
"This indicator meameasures the share of buses, including coaches and trolley-buses, and trains in total passenger transport performance, expressed in passenger-kilometres (pkm). Total passenger transport here includes transport by passenger cars, buses and coaches, and trains, and excludes air and sea transport. All data should be based on movements within national territories, regardless of the nationality of the vehicle. The data collection is voluntary and not fully harmonised at the EU level. Other collective transport modes, such as tram and metro systems,
are not included due to the lack of harmonised data."
Freight volumes
"This indicator measures the share of rail and inland waterways in total inland freight transport, expressed in tonne-kilometres (tkm). Inland freight transport modes include road, rail and inland waterways. Rail and inland waterways transport is based on movements on national territory, regardless of the nationality of the train or vessel. Road transport is based on all movements of vehicles registered in the reporting country. The redistribution of road transport according to the ‘territoriality principle’ involves modelling the likely journey itinerary and projecting it on to the European road network. Neither sea nor air freight transport are represented in the indicator.
Additional Indicators
Average CO2 emissions per km from new passenger cars.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
See page on the maritime side of indicator 9.1.2 here.
Report on Using 9.1.2 for tracking rural access (ReCap)
httpshttp://www.ssbresearch4cap.noorg/en/statbank/table/06794/tableViewLayout1/Library/Siebertetal-2020-ScopingStudySuitabilitySDGIndicator912-FinalReport-ReCAP-GEN2173A-200305.pdf
Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (Slocat)
This page http://www.slocat.net/vnr gives an analysis of how many Voluntary National Reviews have transport references in them.