Here is the first draft of guidance for monitoring indicator 9.1.2, as of 18/12/2019. Please send comments to BlackburnA@un.org. 

Country Comments

Croatia

The document is a welcome guidance document, and for knowing how other countries are proceeding.

Moldova

The document was a useful reference guide for considering how to measure transpor tin their 2020 Voluntary National Review.

Norway

Supports the guidance, and provided an exampel of resident transport indicators.

Slovenia

The document helps countries with the development of indicators for 9.1.2. Specific comments:

• We support inclusion of Chapter 8.
• in section 4.1, it is important to note Eurostat's efforts in territrorialising aviation and maritime data.
• The document should include links or references to how indicators are calculated or should be calculated.

United States

• In the United States road tkm are on a territorial basis (which is why USA has not reported tkm in the common questionnaire for some years). Some politicians in the United States are currently proposing a vehicle-miles traveled tax.  If such a proposal where to be enacted and implemented, then at that point we would likely be able to report some data based on residency.  But such a situation, if it were to occur, is at least a few years away, especially as several states currently have no annual safety inspection, and thus no requirement to collect odometer data. 
• I don’t understand the comment near the top of page 4 that “tracking transport volumes … can at least indicate whether current infrastructure is providing sufficient capacity.”  Transport volumes can only be a good measure of whether capacity is sufficient when combined with other data, such as the amount of road or rail mileage. 
• A measure of the percent of travel accomplished by sustainable transportation, such as low or no emission vehicles, or a measure of sustainable transportation vehicle sales would be a better fit than passenger or freight volumes with the sustainable development goals.  
• I don’t agree with the first sentence of 4.2: Inland Passengers.   In a country that has a large area, such as the United States, there can be a huge amount of passenger-km by the air mode.  In the United States, the number of domestic passenger-km by air is over 100 times the number of passenger-km by Amtrak (our long distance train system).  At a minimum, replace the word “typically” with “often”.

World Bank/SUM4ALL

Research for Community Access Partnership

Minor comment on including reference to their final report.