Defining the Playing Field: The Global Tracking Framework

Abstract

Advocacy dominated the conversation on the role of transportation and mobility in sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The international transport community lacked the data, metrics, and methodology to ground this discussion in data and evidence and bring a higher level of rigor in diagnosing and prioritizing country issues in transport. International organizations and companies coalesced under the Sustainable Mobility for All umbrella and addressed this gap by developing the Global Tracking Framework for Transport (GTF)—the first-ever integrated data and indicators system for transport, with more than 100 desirable and actual transport-related indicators with data for more than 100 countries. The GTF also includes a new Global Sustainable Mobility composite score to rank countries on their transport systems’ performances. The GTF provides a solid basis to elaborate a comprehensive, mode-agnostic country assessment of the transport system’s performances, using data, global indicators, and comparative analysis.

Annex 9.A: Global Tracking Framework for Transport

Table 9. A.1 List of supporting indicators

Notes

• 1. United Nation’s Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport. Mobilizing Sustainable Transport for Development— Analysis and Policy Recommendations from the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport. Page 10. New York: United Nations, 2016.

• 2. Sustainable Mobility for All. 2019. Global Roadmap of Action Toward Sustainable Mobility. Chapter 2: Defining Sustainable Mobility, 16–21. Washington, DC: Sustainable Mobility for All. ISBN: 978-1-7341533-0-9. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0.

• 3. The Global Tracking Framework for Transport is described in Annex 1: Elementary Global Tracking Framework for Transport, 95–102. In Sustainable Mobility for All. 2017. Global Mobility Report 2017: Tracking Sector Performance (GMR). Washington, DC: Sustainable Mobility for All. ISBN: 978-0-692-95670-0. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0.

• 4. Sustainable Mobility for All. 2019. Global Roadmap of Action Toward Sustainable Mobility. ISBN: 978-1-7-341533-0-9. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Table 3.1. Policy Goals and Aspirational Targets, page 22. Washington DC: Sustainable Mobility for All. 2019; and Sustainable Mobility for All. 2020. Mobility Performance at a Glance: Country Dashboards 2020. Washington, DC: Sustainable Mobility for All. ISBN: 978-1-7341533-9-2. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Pages 7–9.

• 5. Vision Zero is a global movement to end traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries by taking a systemic approach to road safety. The premise of this strategy is that road deaths and injuries are unacceptable and preventable. https://visionzerochallenge.org/vision-zero.

• 6. See Annex 9.A for a list of supporting indicators.

• 7. Universal Access—which is defined by 3 subgoals of urban access, rural access, and gender equity—applies equal weight to each subgoal (33 percent). For each principal indicator, the baseline year used for the calculation of the Global Sustainable Mobility index score is identical for all countries and corresponds to the most recent year for which reported data was available for many countries. Note that the baseline year may vary by indicator. To minimize the impact of missing data on the SM Index score for specific countries, the last available data from a preceding year was used. This extrapolation assumes that the value of the indicator was constant since the last observation. For a country and indicator with no data available at any point in time, no value is added to the calculation of its SM Index. Source: Sustainable Mobility for All. 2020. Mobility Performance at a Glance: Country Dashboards 2020. Washington, DC: Sustainable Mobility for All. ISBN: 978-1-7341533-9-2. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Pages 7–9.

• 8. Sustainable Mobility for All. 2020. Mobility Performance at a Glance: Country Dashboards 2020. Washington, DC: Sustainable Mobility for All. ISBN: 978-1-7341533-9-2. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Page 9.

• 9. The three modules (data, policy, and action) of the Policy Decision-Making Tool on Sustainable Mobility can be freely accessed on most internet enabled devices via www.sum4all.org/online-tool.