- Name
- Passenger and freight volumes, by mode of transport
- Indicator purpose
- The purpose of this indicator is to track how the non-road share of freight volumes, and the public transport share of passenger volumes changes over time.
- Abstract
- Passenger and freight volumes are respectively measured in passenger-km and tonne-km and broken down by mode of transport. For the purposes of monitoring this indicator, passenger-km data are split between aviation, road (broken down between passenger cars, buses and motorcycles) and rail, and tonne-km are split between aviation, road, rail and inland waterways.
- Contact organization / person
- Belize Port Authority; Department of Civil Aviation
- Unit of measure
- Passenger and freight volumes are respectively measured in passenger-km and tonne-km
- Other characteristics
- Transborder infrastructure development is best captured by passenger and freight volumes moved by Member States and Regions. A growth in passenger and freight volumes shows a robust infrastructure development happening in States and Regions along with the resultant socioeconomic benefit. Air Transport is particularly important not only for the economic and job benefits but also because it is one of the only mode of transport that can be relied on during emergencies and disease outbreaks to reach food, medicines, medical personnel, vaccines and other supplies speedily to the affected persons in the affected areas.
- Classification used
- Aviation: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) through its Statistics Division have established standard methodologies and definitions to collect and report traffic (passenger and freight volume) data related to air transport. These standards and methodologies have been adopted by the 191 Member States of ICAO and also by the Industry stakeholders i.e. air carriers and airports. The data of ICAO is used by States and also the World Bank for its development indicators. ICAO uses Air Transport Reporting Forms A, AS, B and C to arrive at the passenger and freight volumes for air transport. Precise definition of all different concepts and metadata related to Air Transport Reporting Forms A, AS, B and C to arrive at the passenger and freight volumes for air transport. approved by the ICAO Statistics Division and Member States can be found at the ICAO website given below - http://www.icao.int/sustainability/pages/eap-sta-excel.aspx.
Road, Rail, Inland waterways, Pipelines: The ITF and UNECE, in collaboration with Eurostat, collect data on rail and road, inland waterway and pipeline statistics on an annual basis from all their collective Member countries. Data are collected from Transport Ministries, statistical offices and other institution designated as official data source. Although there are clear definitions for all the terms used in this survey, countries might have different methodologies to calculate tonne-kilometres and passenger-kilometres. Methods could be based on traffic or mobility surveys, use very different sampling methods and estimating techniques which could affect the comparability of their statistics. Official statistics for road, rail, inland waterways and pipeline transport are only available for UNECE or ITF member States. Data for these modes for other countries come from the ITF’s global transport model. For definitions of all relevant terms, the UNECE/ITF/Eurostat Glossary for Transport Statistics can be consulted. The 5th edition of this publication should be released in 2019. The fourth edition from 2009 is available at https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/wp6/pdfdocs/glossen4.pdf.
- Disaggregation
- Aviation: The indicator can be disaggregated by -Country, Country pair, City Pair, Region, Segment (International and domestic).
Road/Rail/Inland waterways/Pipelines: The indicator can be disaggregated by country and mode of transport.
- Key statistical concepts
- Aviation: The aviation passenger and freight volumes are reported for the air carriers through ICAO Air Transport Reporting Forms and grouped by Member States of ICAO.
Road/Rail/Inland waterways/Pipelines: Data for each inland mode are reported to UNECE/ITF/Eurostat by member States, through an annual data collection using the transport statistics web common questionnaire.
- Recommended uses
- This indicator helps ministries in line with transport to implement robust infrastructure development.
- Other comments
- All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.
- Target 2030
- 1. Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
