1. Sustainable development goals indicators for cities
By Lewis Dijkstra
Deputy Head of Unit
Policy Development and Economic Analysis Unit,
DG Regional and Urban Policy
European Commission 1

2. It’s complicated
Multiple actors: national actors, international organisations, UN agencies…
Definition of indicator: tier 1 through 3
In some cases, the indicator itself needs to change
Definition of territories: see global definition work
Not all indicators are relevant in the EU

3. What indicators are relevant for cities?
Indicators that are part of SDG 11
But many other indicators as well such as traffic fatalities or homicides
A breakdown by degree of urbanisation would be useful for most of the indicators collected by household surveys: employment, poverty, overcrowding…

4. Eurostat
Eurostat will do a light reporting based on data that is already available in 2017
Limited to 6 indicators per goal
Unclear to what extent it will include a breakdown by region, degree of urbanisation or per city
Indicators and spatial breakdowns will be discussed again for the report in 2018

5. Six indicators for SDG 11 (draft):
Overcrowding by degurba
Exposure to noise by degurba
Air pollution per city and all cities
Satisfaction with public transport by degurba
Traffic fatalities by NUTS-2, city and degurba
Recycling rate of municipal waste (national)
Built-up areas (included under SDG 15)

6. REGIO and JRC Access to public transport per city
Access to urban green space per city
Artificial areas per city
Air pollution per city
Traffic fatalities per city
To be included in a special folder on the urban data platform

7. Working paper:
Data updated since Copernicus Urban Atlas has been completed (March 2017)

8. Urban indicators: access to public transport
Frequency of public transport services in cities, in relationship to the spatial distribution of population
Access within walking distance
Frequency of the services according to timetables
Copernicus Urban Atlas
GEOSTAT population grid at 1 km² and other (sub-local) population distribution (PD) data
Stops' location and timetables (open data / licensed data)
Street network
How does urban public transport perform in terms of frequency and speed?

9. Working paper:
Analysis extended to more cities: update of the paper is planned for 2017, including map viewer

10. Public transport service frequencies viewer (forthcoming)

13. Next steps Discussions on methods for tier 2 and 3 indicators
Change certain indicators