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This first Asia-specific status report on the implementation of the SDGs brings together the latest data from official data sources and relevant secondary sources. Where possible, the report documents transport sector trends in Asia compared to other global regions. For each of the areas covered, examples of policy action by countries in the Asia and the Pacific region are provided.

The SDG status report is divided in seven themes: transport and the economy, infrastructure and transport activity, urban transport, transport and energy, climate change, air pollution, and road safety.

The first report on the implementation of transport related SDGs in Asia finds: solid gains on some of the transport related SDG goals, evidence of favorable trends for some goals, and significant work remains for several of the transport related SDG targets:

  1. Good progress on SDG goals related to energy efficiency, information and communications technology, fossil-fuel subsidies and PPP projects.
  2. Initial momentum building on SDG goals related to air pollution, renewable energy, economic growth, employment, resource-use efficiency, climate resilience, climate change. countries now need to redouble efforts on these goals.
  3. Minimal progress on SDG goals related to road safety, urban and rural access (considering the ambitions). 800,000 people are still being killed annually in fatal road crashes, 560 million people lack proper rural access and 1.3 billion urban dwellers lack access to proper public transport.

This first status report on the implementation of transport related SDG targets in Asia makes active uses of the information contained in the Asian Transport Outlook, a new initiative by the Asian Development Bank to build the knowledge base on transport in Asia and the Pacific.

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