The Regional Workshop on the Exchange of Experiences on the Collection and Dissemination of Road and Railway Transport Statistics: Statistics on The Volume of Road Traffic (Vehicle-Kilometer) is to be to be convened during 8- 10 December 2020. The regional workshop will be convened virtually. The workshop is part of ESCWA's strategy and is in follow up on the recommendations of the ESCWA Statistics Committee at its 13th session (January 2019) and the Regional workshop on the development of transport statistics and related sustainable development indicators in Arab countries (September 2019), which requested the ESCWA Secretariat to focus on systemic issues related to transport and road statistics.
Through this workshop, ESCWA aims to identify and rationalize the methodologies adopted by member countries in their production of statistics on the volume of road traffic, while ensuring that these methodologies comply with international standards and methodologies. It seeks primarily to study the methodologies and methods of calculation applied in different member countries, assess capacity-building needs to improve calculation methods, address the issue of statistical coverage and the availability of road traffic data measured by vehicle - kilometer, transport policy; fuel consumption; pollution Spatial planning; public transport planning; intermodal transport planning; taxes; road safety; and international comparisons, as well as new methods and methods that use technology to estimate the volume of road traffic, especially in times of the COVID 19 pandemic and in times of conflict and crisis.
Preparations for the Regional workshop are accompanied by a number of preparatory activities, such as holding a preparatory meeting consisting of a limited number of participants from the various Arab subregions which was held on 29 September 2020, as well as the preparation of national working papers by national statistical offices that wish to present their countries’ experiences and present the most important features during the regional workshop. The workshop will also consider preparing a regional guideline. The concept and information note of the regional workshop-which has information on the accompanying preparatory activities, information on participation in these activities, as well as the deadlines for participation- can be found attached as well as at ESCWA website at the following link: https://www.unescwa.org/our-work/economic-statistics.The registration form to the workshop is also attached. The Agenda of the Workshop as well as related documents to the regional Workshop will be posted in due time. The link to webpage to the Preparatory Meeting which was held on September 29.2020 in preparation to the regional workshop is: (webpage URLhttps://www.unescwa.org/our-work/economic-statistics.: ) and its proceedings at the following TEAMS link : https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/04681133-5fcf-42fa-8a79-af8081a9b868
Meeting Information:
Provisional Agenda
Concept and Information Note
Report of The Preparatory Meeting for The Regional Workshop on the Exchange of Experiences on the Collection and Dissemination of Road and Railway Transport Statistics: Statistics on The Volume of Road Traffic (Vehicle-Kilometer)
List of Participants
Presentations
Day 1:
- Opening Remarks_ESCWA
Session 1: The ESCWA Regional Guideline on the Statistics on the Volume of Road Traffic (Vehicle -Kilometer) – A Proposal
Session 2: European Methodological Framework on Volume of Road Traffic
- 1 The EU methodological framework for the production of statistics on the volume of road traffic_MEDSTAT-Thierry Coulete
- 2 UNECE Harmonising Transport Statistics-Alexander Blackburn
- 3 About_ITF - Mario Barreto
Day 2:
Session 3: Statistics on the Volume of Road Traffic and Their Importance to SDG Monitoring
- 1 The Macro Indicators Related to Land Transport Volumes of Traffic, and Their Importance in Transport Analysis Relating to the SDGs_Yarob Badr
- 2 UNECE Road traffic volumes and SDGs-Alexander Blackburn
- 3 VKM Role in road safety-Mario Barreto
Session 4: Statistics on the Volume of Road Traffic: Data Sources and Usage
- 1 Road Transport: Comparison Between Data Sources- Bouazza Bouchkhar
- 2 UNECE Using Transport Data-Alexander Blackburn
Session 5: Statistics on the Volume of Road Traffic: Complementary Data Sources in Times of Pandemic and Crisis:
- 1 New data sources and road safety-Alexander Blackburn
- 2 How Covid-19 affects people Mobility and Economics-Rendra Achyunda A.P and Silvia Arini
- Highlights from the Recent Global Online Surveys to Monitor the Impact of the Corona Virus Crisis of Statistics Agencies, and to Identify New Data Needs and Assistance to NSOs_ Luis Morales
- Overview of the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians, the Global Network Webinars, and of the UNSD Brown Bags and What They Offer_ Loschky
Day: 3
Session 6: Statistics on the Volume of Traffic: New Technologies and Complementary Data Sources and What They Offer:
- New Technologies and Complementary Data Sources and What They Offer: An ESCWA Perspective_Juraj Reican
- New Land Transport Technologies and What They Offer_Nibal Idelby
- UN-ESCWA’s Initiatives on Novel Technologies and Data Sources_Mohammad Hossary & Rim Bahmad
- Demonstration of Two Ongoing National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) – Based Big Data Applications_ Ali Ghandour
Session 7: Statistics on the Volume of Road Traffic: National Experiences: Identification of Methods, Challenges and Best Practices:
Bahrain:
Iraq:
Lebanon:
Syria:
Morocco:
KSA:
Tunisia:
- 1 General Traffic Census in Tunis - Mohamed Al Qasimi
- 2 Traffic statistics on highways, Tunisia - Moez Menady
- 3 Statistics of urban mobility in Tunisia-Fethiye Nagy
- 4 Fleet of Vehicles in Tunis - Nizar Qallal and Adnan Abdel Salam
- 5 Road Accident Information System in Tunisia - Mohamed Sogair
Resources:
- September Preparatory Meeting Report
- Meeting Report
- Workshop’s Evaluation Survey
- Regional Guideline on Statistics on the Volume of Road Traffic (vehicles-km)
Amman, Jordan
