8.2 Transport sector's sustainable development goals
Transport services are essential for economic and social development, but to ensure sustainability they must be improved. This policy brief identifies key sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the transport sector that can be achieved using existing cost-effective policies and technologies:
- Urban transport: An SDG should be to double the number of people with access to affordable, quality mass transit
- Rural transport: An SDG should be to reduce by 90% the number of people without access to all-weather roads has been proposed as a target
- Air quality: The transport sector can lead by implementing an SDG to bring the air quality within World Health Organization guidelines
- Road safety: An SDG of halving road fatalities worldwide is achievable
- Energy and climate: The SDGs should include doubling the efficiency of the global vehicle fleet.
The brief also includes a two-page reasoned commentary proposing changes to the final text.
Issuing body: United Nations
Type: Policy brief
Status: Draft
Title: TST issue brief: sustainable transport
File type: Word document
File size: 1.93 MB
Year of publication: 2013
Number of pages: 10
