By Michael Replogle, Institute for Transportation & Development Policy. Presented at Transforming Transportation, Washington, D.C., January 27, 2012.

1. Defining Sustainable
Mobility, Indicators
and Targets
Presentation by Michael Replogle to
Transforming Transportation
January 26, 2012

3. Goal: Achieve sustainable transport that
enables universal access to safe, clean, and
affordable mobility.
Social
Economic Environmental

4. Targets & Indicators at Different Scales
Project & Plan & Nation
Portfolio Region
Challenges of Often best for
Optimal scale to
considering evaluating large
consider system
system-wide programs and
impacts for
impacts, induced system policies
metropolitan
demand
plans/programs

5. 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

6. Possible Indicators
• 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?

7. Possible Indicators
• Annual fossil fuel
consumption
• per person for personal
transport
• per ton freight
• by mode
• Related GHGs
• Vehicle fleet size
• In-use fleet fuel efficiency
• Share of funding focused on
mitigation
• Is funding tied to progress?

8. Possible Indicators
• Vehicle-km traveled by mode
• Mode share: trips
• Mode share: passenger-km
• Mode share: ton-km
• Vehicle occupancy
• Vehicle load factors

9. Public Health: Safety Goal
Support the Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-20) and
cut traffic-related deaths in half by 2025

10. Possible Indicators
• Annual traffic fatalities
• Share of funding focused on traffic safety
• Are managers/agencies rewarded based on
traffic safety progress achievement?

11. Mobility & Access Goal
Ensure universal access to sustainable transport though
support for safe, affordable public transport and safe,
attractive facilities for walking and bicycling.

12. Possible Indicators
• 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?
45% 42%
40%
Share of household income spent
35% on transportation US 2000
30% 26%
25% 21%
20% 17%
15% 12%
10%
5%
0%
0 to $13,060 $13,061 to $25,218 $25,219 to $41,492 $41,493 to $67,516 $67,517 or higher
Income Quintile

13. 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

14. 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.

15. Implementation
• 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

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

18. TEEMP: Project-by-Project Tools
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
Adopted by Global Environmental Facility as part
of Manual for Calculating GHG Benefits of
Transport Projects 18

19. TEEMP Used to Evaluate Project & Program
Impacts for Multilateral Development Bank
Source: ADB. 2010. Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transport Projects 19

20. The SLoCaT Partnership
Improve 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

21. For More Information
Michael Replogle
Global Policy Director and Founder
Institute for Transportation and Development
Policy
1210 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036 USA
michael.replogle@itdp.org
212-629-8001
www.itdp.org
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