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Transport Measurement Matters
Indicators of Performance and Impact
Washington, DC, March 30, 2007 |
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 The World Bank Transport Results Initiative hosted this full day learning session on March 30, 2007. The session was attended by about fifty participants, representing a good mix from the Bank and from other organizations. An update of the Transport Results Guidelines in CD-ROM was released to participants.
The primary objective of the learning session was to give an update on the status of the Transport Results Initiative and to discuss demand for and good practice examples of indicators to guide transport policy and investments.
Presentations were given on the potential for using Geographic Information Systems and on a good practice example of GIS combined with household data analysis in Lesotho to assess the impact of rural isolation on accessing health services. This stimulated a very active discussion about combining data from different sources to examine the relation between social services and local transport for the rural poor.
A summary was given of the latest global data of Rural Access Indices with a demonstration of how these values can be interpreted at the national and sub-national level and in relation to key development indicators.
Feedback was provided from a consultative workshop on Transport Results recently held in Peru for the Latin American region. This was the latest in a series of such workshops and the findings contributed to our overall conclusions.
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Introduction: Peter Roberts
Session 1
Chair: Tesfamichael Nahusanay
Session 2
Chair: Julie Babinard
- Rural Access Index (PDF 9.7 MB)
Tomoyuki Sho, Consultant, ETWTR, World Bank
- Views from Latin America (PDF 89 KB)
Marinke van Riet, IFRTD
Andrea Gutierrez, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maria Brooks, DANIDA, Nicaragua
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- It is increasingly important that the significance of transport indicators is recognized at all levels of government so that appropriate data is collected in the best places and used to address priorities.
- The moves by TRI beyond performance measurement to monitoring impacts. (social and environmental as well as economic) are supported and this should be taken further.
- There is a to regularly collect disaggregated data to identify the transport needs of different segments of society and to monitor and evaluate the outcomes for them.
- Geographic Information Systems are increasingly providing an effective framework for organizing various forms of data on a spatial basis.
- The pilot study in Lesotho is a good demonstration of what can be done by analyzing the results of a Demographic and Health Survey in conjunction with geographic information.
- There is a strong demand for the Guidelines and other material to be translated into Spanish (and French) as well as for sources in those languages to be made accessible in English. TRI will explore the scope for partners to contribute on this.
- It is important to maintain the Regional consultation of the Transport Results Initiative as a two-way process providing a range of client needs and views as well information on data sources and good dissemination of the at global and regional level.
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