Acknowledgements
The report should be cited as:
SLOCAT (2023), Transport, Climate and Sustainability Global Status Report – 3rd edition, www.tcc-gsr.com.
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The development of this report was led by Maruxa Cardama, Angel Cortez, Emily Hosek, Agustina Krapp, Nikola Medimorec, and Alice Yiu from the SLOCAT secretariat.
Our warm thanks to the many SLOCAT partners and experts from the wider transport community who have shaped this report. A significant share of the research for this report was conducted on a voluntary basis.
Financial supporters
This edition has been made possible thanks to financial support by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) through their International Climate Initiative (IKI) and by the Volvo Research and Education Foundations (VREF).
Advisors
Chief Advisor
Holger Dalkmann (Sustain2030)
Advisory team (alphabetical by affiliation’s full name)
Suzanne Spooner (AFD), Carolina Chantrill (Asociación Sustentar / LEDS LAC), Nicholas You (Citistates), Friedel Sehlleier and Urda Eichhorst (GIZ), Andrea San Gil Leon (Global Network for Popular Transportation), Tu My Tran (ICLEI), Yann Briand (IDDRI), Maisarah Abdul Kadir and Nicholas Wagner (IRENA), Atiq Ahmad and Olatunji Yusuf (IsDB), Jacob Mason (ITDP), Wei-Shiuen Ng and John Pritchard (ITF-OECD), José Holguin-Veras (RPI), Rik Arends and Gabriela Domingo (Smart Freight Centre), Alok Jain (Trans Consult), Madan Bandhu Regmi (UNESCAP), Yarob Badr (UNESCWA), Bronwen Thornton (Walk21), Benjamin Welle (WRI).
Contributing authors by section
*The list of contributing authors is final.
Takeaways for Decision Markers
Lead author: Hannah Murdock, Imperial College London
Contributors: Maruxa Cardama, Holger Dalkmann, Nikola Medimorec, Alice Yiu
Module 1: Transport Pathways to Reach Global Climate and Sustainability Goals
Authors: Maruxa Cardama, Agustina Krapp, Nikola Medimorec and Alice Yiu, SLOCAT secretariat
1.2 Transport Adaptation and Resilience
Authors: Juliet Mian, Amy Leitch, Áine Ní Bhreasail and Louis Andrews, Arup; Rebecca Laberenne and Kerem Yilmaz, Resilience Rising; Savina Carluccio, International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure
Contributors: Mathieu Verougstraete, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Spotlight 1. Transport-Health Nexus
Author: Alison Doig, Health Climate Network
Contributors: Karl Peet and Ambika Sairam, SLOCAT secretariat; Thiago Hérick de Sá, World Health Organization
Spotlight 2. Transport Adaptation and Decarbonisation in Small Island Developing States
Authors: Hannah Murdock, Imperial College London; Arjay Dineros, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributors: Karl Peet, SLOCAT secretariat; Raffael Held and Janina Marie Laurent, GIZ; Nicole Baker, Arup; Sam Johnson, World Bank
1.3 National and Subnational Action for Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
Author: Nikola Medimorec and Alice Yiu, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributors: Shivam Ghai, Rohit Nepali, SLOCAT secretariat
Author: Maruxa Cardama and Alice Yiu, SLOCAT secretariat
1.3.2. Subnational Actions for Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
Author: Tsu-Jui Cheng, National Cheng Kung University; Agustina Krapp, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributor: Tu My Tran, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
1.3.3. The Role of Business in Decarbonising Transport
Author: Sophie Punte, Smart Freight Centre
Contributors: ; Yann Briand, IDDRI; Charlene Kouassi, MovinOn’ LABS Africa; Joachim Roth, World Benchmarking Alliance
Box on The Role of Companies in Decarbonising Global Freight and Logistics
Author: Sandra Rothbard, Rik Arends and Tharsis Teoh, Smart Freight Centre
Spotlight 4. Shortening Global Supply Chains as a Key to Decarbonising Transport
Authors: Yann Briand, IDDRI; Sandra Rothbard, Freight Matters
Module 2: Regional Transport and Climate Change Trends
Author: Robert Ambunda, University of Namibia: School of Engineering and the Built Environment
Contributors: Verena Knoell, GIZ; Chris Kost, ITDP
Authors: Hannah Murdock, Imperial College London; Ambika Sairam, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributors: Urda Eichhorst, GIZ
Authors: Hannah Murdock, Imperial College London; Arjay Dineros, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributor: Mark Major, Kühne Foundation
2.4 Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Overview
Author: Agustina Krapp, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributors: Carolina Chantrill, Asociación Sustentar; Lina Quiñones, Despacio; Arturo Steinvorth, Center for Urban Sustainability
2.5 North America Regional Overview
Author: Nikola Medimorec, SLOCAT secretariat
Author: Angel Cortez, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributors: Helen Rowe and Margot Delafoulhouze, Climateworks Australia
Module 3: Climate and Sustainability Responses in Transport Sub-Sectors and Modes
3.1 Integrated Transport Planning
Author: Hannah Murdock, Imperial College London
Supporting Author: Tokam Cabrel, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributor: Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Author: Jim Walker, Walk21
Author: Philip Amaral, European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF)
Contributors: Jill Warren, European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF); Isabella Burczak and Ben Barrett, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI); Lina Quiñones, Despacio; Sam Johnson, World Bank
3.4 Shared Mobility
Authors: Anna Kustar, Thet Hein Tun and Benjamin Welle, World Resources Institute
Author: Andrea San Gil León and Adriana Quesada Valverde, Global Network for Popular Transportation
3.4.3 App-Driven Shared Transport
Author: Sebastian Castellanos, NUMO
Contributor: Agustina Krapp, SLOCAT secretariat
Author: Joo Hyun Ha and Lucie Anderton, International Union of Railways (UIC)
Author: Hannah E. Murdock, Imperial College London
Support Author: Tokam Cabrel, SLOCAT secretariat
Contributors: Mark Major, Kühne Foundation; Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Author: Karl Peet, SLOCAT secretariat
Author: Karl Peet, SLOCAT secretariat
Module 4: Transport and Energy
Author: Marion Vieweg, Current Future
Contributor: Hannah E. Murdock, Imperial College London
Authors: Oliver Lah, Alvin Mejia and Kanya Pranawengkapti, Urban Electric Mobility Initiative, Wuppertal Institute
Contributor: Nikola Medimorec, SLOCAT Secretariat
Module 5: Enabling Climate and Sustainability Action in Transport: Finance, Capacity and Institutional Support
5.1 Financing Sustainable Transport in Times of Limited Budgets
Author: Jyoti Bisbey, World Association of PPP Units and PPP Professionals
Spotlight 5: Capacity and Institutional Support to Achieve Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
Author: Armin Wagner and Viviane Weinmann, GIZ
Peer reviewers (alphabetical by affiliation’s full name)
Nicole Baker, Paola Bueno and Daniel Philips (ARUP), Carolina Chantrill and Martina Pugno (Asociacion Sustentar), Alimou Lembo (Association Global Humaniste), Richard Lambert (Cities Forum), Tania Martha Thomas and Mélaine Assè-Wassa Sama (Climate Chance), Divya Sharma (Climate Group), Henrik Gudmundsson (Concito), Lóri Tavasszy (Delft University of Technology), Mbuh Raphael (FIMOAT), Esteban Bermudez Forn (GEF), Mateo Gomez, Urda Eichhorst, Verena Flues and Martin Schaefer (GIZ), Yann Briand (IDDRI), Andre Luiz Lopes Toledo (IFRN), Maria Golda Hilario (Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC)), Sudarmanto Budi Nugroho (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Japan), Nicholas Wagner (IRENA), Atiq Ahmad and Olatunji Yusef (Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)), Clarisse Cunha Linke (ITDP Brazil), John Pritchard (ITF-OECD), Stefan Bakker (KiM Netherlands Institute), Alan McKinnon (Kühne Logistics University), Jad Baba (REN21), Sukma Larasiti (Transportologi), Susan Shaheen (TRSC UC Berkeley), Hassiba Benamara and Frida Youssef (UNCTAD), Sean Cooke (UNEP), Madam Regmi and Wei-Shiuen Ng (UNESCAP), Winnie Mitullah (University of Nairobi), Ahmad Alimin (University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia), Antonio Chammorro Sanmiguel (Urban Mobility Secretariat of Quito City, Ecuador), Marie Venner (Venner Consulting), Todd Litman (Victoria Transport Policy Institute), Henrik Nolmark (VREF), Andrew Losos, Sam Johnson and Shokraneh Minovi (World Bank), Joachim Roth (World Benchmarking Alliance).