Different levels of indicators

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Preliminary list SDIs
Transport land use management
Stephen Hall
Member of Task Force on SDIs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs - UK
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Headline policy objectives

• Decouple transport growth from GDP

• Shift in transport use from road to other

• Reduce congestion and other impacts

• Reduce people affected by long-term noise

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Headline policy objectives

• Decouple transport growth from GDP

• Shift in transport use from road to other

• Reduce congestion and other impacts

• Reduce people affected by long-term noise

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Level I Indicator

• Vehicle-km vs GDP

• Fuel consumption

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Level I Indicator

• Vehicle-km vs GDP

• Fuel consumption

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Level I Indicator
Vehicle-km vs GDP
Best needed indicator Vehicle-km
(including lorries, trains and planes) vs GDP
(lacking comparable data)
?
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Level I Indicator
Proxy Fuel consumption
Proxy indicator Final Energy
Consumption by transport modes, i.e. rail, road,
air transport and inland navigation.
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Level II Indicators

• Growth freight modal split

• Growth freight vs GDP

• Growth passenger modal split

• Impact fragmentation

• Impact ozone precursors

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Level II Indicators

• Growth freight modal split

• Growth freight vs GDP

• Growth passenger modal split

• Impact fragmentation

• Impact ozone precursors

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Level II Indicators
Modal split of freight
Indicator percentage share of road in
total inland freight transport tonne-km (road,
rail and inland waterways)
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Level II Indicators
Freight transport vs GDP
Indicator index of inland freight
transport tonne-km relative to GDP
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Level II Indicators
Modal split of passenger-km
Indicator percentage share of road in
total inland passenger transport vehicle-km
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Level II Indicators
Fragmentation
Best needed indicator Fragmentation
of habitats due to transport
(definitional and data issues)
?
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Level II Indicators
Ozone precursors
Indicator Emissions of ozone
precursors by transport activities
?
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Summary