Regional Workshop on the Development of Transport Statistics and Transport Related Sustainable Development Indicators in the Arab Countries
The regional workshop aims to strengthen the capacity of national statistical offices in Arab countries to identify statistical gaps, to compile, classify and analyze transport data and to strengthen cooperation with regional and national partners to ensure consistency and harmonization of data collection and dissemination methodologies in line with the regional and international recommendations, knowledge sharing on best practices and lessons learned in the collection and dissemination of transport data, enhancing cooperation in the dissemination of transport data and contributing to the establishment of a regional transport database as well as identifying future needs of countries in terms of capacity building needs, efficiency development and exchange of successful experiences.
Meeting Details
- Information note
- Information Brochure
- List of Participants
- Agenda
Day 1: Presentations
- Transport Statistics in an Integrated Economic Statistics System
- UNECE data collection, coordination and data sources
- Role and Scope of MEDSTAT Programmes in advocating Statistical Standards
- Development of methods and tools to report progress on SDG 11.2
- Transport-related SDG Indicators
- Transport and Sustainable development in the Mediterranean Countries
- Linkages between the SDGs and key transport indicators
- Importance of providing the necessary data Qatar
- Current Work on the Lebanese National Observatory for Road Safety
- Identification and prioritization of hazardous road locations in Beirut city using GIS
- ESCWA questionnaire
- Tunisia
- Iraq
- Lebanon
- Egypt
Day 2: Presentations
- Road transport presentation and questionnaire results
- Improving the status of land transport statistics in the Arab region
- Current state of road transport sector in Lebanon
- Sustainable development indicators related to road transport
- Linking hospital data with internal security data road safety of children
- Palestine
- Morocco
- Somalia
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Railway transport presentation and questionnaire results
- Maritime transport presentation and questionnaire results
- Use of alternative and complementary data sources including big data other than official data
- ESCWA pilot study on alternative and complementary data sources on road safety
- Application of alternative data sources in the field of transportation and specifically on road safety
- Big Data for Smarter Transportation
- Road Quality Monitoring and Prediction
- Harnessing the Power of Alternative Transport Data
Day 3: Presentations
- Air Transport presentation and questionnaire results
- Air transport geospatial data
- Air Transport Challenges in obtaining trusted and validated data
- Rafic Hariri International Airport Traffic flow
- How Eurostat countries are proceeding with monitoring intermodal transport in Europe
- Importance of partnerships and harmonization in the field of transport statistics
- MEDSTAT lessons learnt and future perspectives for partnerships and harmonization
- Role of UN ECE in promoting transport indicators
- Attaining safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all
- Determinants of setting up partnerships with funding agencies