Transport Sector Indicators Progress Report to Transport Sector Board 27 January 2004

Transport Indicators: activities Three linked sets of activity: Rural Access – establishing a new measure: - required for IDA Group measurement program Infrastructure Action Plan: Recent Economic Developments in Infrastructure (REDI) Transport Sector core measures: supporting Country/Region programmes responding to IAP / REDI 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Transport Indicators: Progress Schedule of activity FY 2004 2005 Rural Access REDI (Inf AP) Country 30 countries 50 countries & updates monitor indicators & guide snapshot & priority countries further low & mid income core data & def’ns national ownership global stats collection 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Rural Access: first results Low income countries: 61% of the rural population (21 countries) Middle income countries: 69% of the rural population (6 countries) BONUS: Urban transport access: within 20 minutes of public transport Low income countries: 90% of the urban population (7 countries) 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Transport Indicators: Progress Rural Access by Region confirmed preliminary in prospect Total AFR 9 3 5* 17 EAP - 2 4 ECA 1 LAC MNA SAR 5 14 7 13 34 * initial output from SSATP 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

REDI exercise: transport Sub-sectors: core measures (passenger & freight): Road transport Railways Air: inland & international Water: inland & coastal Ports and logistics Social & Environmental Modal share prelim draft final 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

IRF coverage: road network, road finance and road use 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Essential for sustainability of indicators action for the Anchor Regular compilation and publishing of international data and indicators Promote head-line global indicators ‘Rural Accessibility’ for IDA-14 Urban mobility indicator ?? Coordinate with SMs and INF for core measures assist liaison: Reg Banks, PIARC and other agencies Strengthen awareness on key statistics: foster an on-going commitment (by IRF?) work with DECDG and secure core resources Essential for sustainability of indicators 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Regional contributions: overall income low middle high Total AFR 39 12 1 52 EAP 9 13 11 33 ECA 8 20 29 LAC 2 7 38 MNA 10 5 16 SAP 6 - total 65 86 25* 176 * Not including North America and Europe. 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Regional contributions: low income country region Low income IDA group Low income performing AFR 39 9 EAP 13 2 ECA 8 10 LAC MNA 1 - SAP 6 3 total 65 81 18 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Transport Indicators: Progress Regional contacts Key transport contacts for liaison: AFR: Dieter Schelling SSATP programme, involve TTLs for country snapshots EAP: Alberto Nogales, Emmanuel Py, Philip Lam preparing country transport briefs linked to REDIs ECA: Henry Kerali LAC: Nicolas Peltier working with IDB to cover 10 countries MNA: James Reichert - Yemen, need other countries for REDI SAP: Isabel Chatterton, early REDIs with country priorities, regional website (hosted by India) 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Transport Indicators: Progress action in the Regions Rural Access: for IDA group: Awareness of new measure for 30 countries Mar ’04 gain commitments for: 20 further countries (Mar ’05) encourage client ownership of this indicator particularly in countries with rural transport priority ensure that ‘access’ question is in future HH surveys about half of surveys so far have not included it add at least 10 update measures each year consider other key indicators (urban) extend to non-IDA countries: 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

key challenge for the Sector Strengthen core transport data: inadequate data to manage sector in many countries stimulate national ownership/demand push for key sector data: outputs/impacts, costs, inclusion facilitate data quality, updating, analysis, publication strengthen national statistical capacity establish global data capacity essential for sustainability of indicators 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Transport Indicators: Progress questions? (some answers can be found through the Transport intranet page …….) 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress

Transport Indicators: Progress 26 January 2004 Transport Indicators: Progress