How improve access to health, education and other Millenium Development Goals?. A transectorial aproach applied to manage transport and mobility within other sectorial services

ANDREA GUTIÉRREZ

London

Conferencia; Planet Under Pressure. New knowledge towards solutions; 2012

UNCSD

To improve the quality of life we need more effective management of the human activity. Transport and mobility, as well as energy, water and food are global needs. Transport and mobility also affect all human ctivities. They are involved with the production and consumption of food, as well as tangible and intangible assets (such as services and knowledge). Finally, involve global sustainability, environmental, economic and social: consume water, air, land, energy, and also time and money of personal life and governments. Transport and mobility require trans-disciplinary and cross approaches. How demonstrate the intervention of mobility behind health management, education, employment, consumption, leisure, foreign trade?. We need a new system of concepts, methods and indicators for assessing human well-being, and the intervention of transport and mobility within the management of other public policies. We need innovation in services, the use of new energy, materials and technologies of information and communication, but also innovate to integrate transport and mobility across the management of other sectorial policies, for a more effective access to goods, services and activities that make real the quality of life. These issues are being put into debate, mainly in the north, and even less in the south. But in the south there is a rising production, innovative ideas and experiences, which needs to be put in common for promote exchanges. This paper presents an original model for cross-sectoral analysis that provides an indicator of access and show cross-link disconnections. This model is useful for decision making: it evidence the network of trips involved in gathering a service, with low cost and short term information, available even to local governments. Through inter-sectoral simple actions it is possible achieve a better access, even without more investment or infrastructure.