1. Agenda 21 December 20071 THE PEP Clearing House Agenda 21 and the Information Society Session II: Making environmental information accessible: Collaboration, networking and partnerships on clearing- house mechanisms

2. Agenda 21 December 20072 THE PEP features Policy framework for the promotion of sustainable transport at the pan-European level Tripartite governmental and secretariat process Supervision: THE PEP Steering Committee Focused programme of work Finances: Ad hoc XB resources Administration: UNECE (Geneva)+WHO/Europe (Rome)

3. Agenda 21 December 20073 Objectives of THE PEP Clearing House Portal for the promotion of environment and health integration into transport policy Dissemination of information (present) (policies, legislation, good practices, research, data, capacity building, funding, etc.) Cooperation and exchange of views at Pan- European level (planned)

4. Agenda 21 December 20074 Keys of THE PEP Clearing House -Internet-based center for -collection, classification and distribution of structured information -kept and maintained by authorized bodies

5. Agenda 21 December 20075 THE PEP Clearing House Structure Academic institutions THE PEP Clearing House (Transport, Environment and Health) National Governments Local authorities NGOs International organisations Private sector

6. Agenda 21 December 20076 Features of THE PEP Clearing House Inter-sectoral approach (T,H,E) No legal and institutional framework No national support structure (nodes) No agreed information base No funding mechanism for operation Two secretariats UNECE (Geneva) and WHO/Euro (Rome)

7. Agenda 21 December 20077 Design of THE PEP Clearing House Central operation directed by one secretariat (bottom-up approach risky as no “mainstream” issues, no legal/financial obligations by national nodes; UNECE/WHO) Minimize operational/personnel costs (maximize automatic functions, uploading, downloading) Use of existing UN technical infrastructure (identify marginal UN cost components, such as server capacity, IT maintenance, search engines, etc.) Harness substantive know-how of secretariats (ECE and WHO/Europe staff assistance for operation)

8. © Economic Commission for Europe, 2007, all rights reserved8 THE PEP Clearing House Implementation stages Phase I – Target user survey/concept/design 2003 Phase II – Implementation 2004-2005 Phase III – Pilot Operation (Part I) 2006-2007

9. © Economic Commission for Europe, 2007, all rights reserved9 Clearing House Mechanism Administrative structure Resources 2004 $ 122’734 2005 $ 81’0000 2006 $46’107 Advisory Board Steering Committee UNECE WHO

10. Agenda 21 December 200710 Services of THE PEP Clearing House Core services (information broker) –Focus on THE PEP priority areas -Information targeted to policy makers (but flexible) -Dedicated search engines -Multilingual coverage (English/Russian) –Description and analysis of key areas and topics

11. Agenda 21 December 200711 Services of THE PEP Clearing House Potential additional (value-added) services –Structured access to data bases and statistics –Analytical and advisory service (expert database) –Capacity building and training –Sources of international funding –Interaction/cooperation (forums, feedback) –Translation (automatic ?) services –Newsletter and calendar of meetings

12. Agenda 21 December 200712 Uploading - Information procurement Information content and quality criteria (THE PEP CH terms of use) Authorization of information providers-nodes) Governmental (international, national, local, NGOs) Automatic uploading procedures for nodes Information categorization and tagging Automatic maintenance mechanisms Web crawler regularly updates information of nodes

13. Agenda 21 December 200713 THE PEP Clearing House Web-based uploading mechanism Submission form

14. Agenda 21 December 200714 Downloading – Information provision Information architecture (principles) –Comprehensive, coherent and systematic information search on inter-relationship and interdependence of transport, health and environment (search engine) –Intuitive information search for policy makers (non- experts) (“information tree”)

15. Agenda 21 December 200715 Downloading – Information provision 6 main information areas Policy integration measures (T,H,E) Transport demand management Sustainable urban transport Environment and health effects of transport Sensitive areas Focus on EECCA and SEE countries

16. Agenda 21 December 200716 Downloading – Information provision THE PEP priority areas and transport effects –By categories (110 key topics with summaries) –By key words (search engine) Toolkit (policy measures) –Policy (international, regional, EU, national) –Legislation (international, regional, EU, national) –Research and case studies; (indicators and data) –Capacity building and funding opportunities

17. Agenda 21 December 200717 Challenges (internal) Sustained operation of Clearing House mechanism -Successful automatic operation -High investments, but very little operating costs -Complex administration of technical and substantive task (among many staff) -Visibility (lack of ownership within secretariat)

18. Agenda 21 December 200718 Challenges (external) Lack of national visibility –EECCA and SEE countries –Western European countries Lack of national information provision/uploading –EECCA and SEE countries –Western European countries How to activate THE PEP Focal Points ?

19. Agenda 21 December 200719 Indicators of operation Good and up-to-date user and content data are key for effective response Visitors Visited pages Uploaded documents Database sources and content Document content

20. Agenda 21 December 200720 CLEARING HOUSE USE: UNIQUE VISITORS (JAN 2006–NOV 2007) Unique Visitor: A unique visitor is someone with a unique address who is entering The PEP Clearing House web site and are counted only once per day, no matter how often they visit the site. Unique visitors are measured according to their unique IP addresses, which are like online fingerprints.

21. Agenda 21 December 200721 CLEARING HOUSE CONTENT DOCUMENTS/LINKS BY LANGUAGE

22. Agenda 21 December 200722 CLEARING HOUSE CONTENT: CONTRIBUTORS (JAN 2006–NOV 2007) EU12: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia EU15: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom SEE: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey EECCA: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

23. Agenda 21 December 200723 VISITED PAGES PER SUB-REGION (EECCA, SEE, EU12, EU15) (JAN 2006–NOV 2007)

24. Agenda 21 December 200724 EECCA (JAN 2006–NOV 2007)

25. Agenda 21 December 200725 SEE (JAN 2006–NOV 2007)

26. Agenda 21 December 200726 EU12 (JAN 2006–NOV 2007)

27. Agenda 21 December 200727 EU15 (JAN 2006–NOV 2007)

28. Agenda 21 December 200728 THE PEP Clearing House Acknowledgments Donors Switzerland Finland Norway NetherlandsFrance United Kingdom Germany

29. Agenda 21 December 200729 THE PEP Clearing House www.thepep.org/CHWebSite

30. Agenda 21 December 200730 CLEARING HOUSE USE: VISITED PAGES, JAN 2006 – NOV 2007

31. Agenda 21 December 200731 CLEARING HOUSE CONTENT UPLOADED DOCUMENTS and LINKS (web crawler)

32. Agenda 21 December 200732 Development of THE PEP Clearing House Cautious (phased) top-down approach (step-by step - high initial investment costs) Extensive target user surveys (2003) (THE PEP market niche: T,E,H inter-relationship, policy makers, “East and West” link, multilingual: English/Russian) Conceptual design (2003) Implementation phase (2005) Pilot operation phase (2006-2007) Normal (sustained) operation (planned for 2008)?