Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Project Background and Objectives 1.1.1 Background 1.1.2 Objectives 1.2 Scope and Approach 1.2.1 Scope 1.2.2 Approach 1.3 Concept, Roles, and Benefits of Transport Data 1.3.1 Concept 1.3.2 Roles and Benefits Chapter 2. KTDB Experience and Lessons 2.1 Problems in before-KTDB era 2.1.1 Unorganized Transport Survey 2.1.2 Inefficient Evaluation of SOC Investment Projects 2.1.3 Lack of DB for Supporting Transport Policy and Plan 2.2 Legal Support and Organization for KTDB 2.2.1 Legal Support 2.2.2 Institutional Support - National Transport Survey Plan 2.2.3 DB building and Managing Organization - KTDB Center in KOTI 2.3 Included Data 2.3.1 Survey Data 2.4 Lessons 2.4.1 Application of KTDB 2.4.2 Evaluation of Individual Transport Facility Investment 2.4.3 Other Utilization 2.4.4 Major Benefits through KTDB Chapter 3. Requirement Analysis of Global Transport DB 3.1 Current Status of Transport Data in Developing Countries 3.1.1 Review of Previous Studies on Transport Data in Developing Countries 3.1.2 Lesson Learned from Previous Studies 3.2 International Transport Database in Practice 3.2.1 Transport Statistics of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 3.2.2 Transport Statistics of WB 3.2.3 Transport Statistics of United Nations 3.2.4 Eurostat 3.2.5 North American Transportation Statistics (NATS) 3.2.6 International Transport Forum 3.2.7 Association of Southeast Asian Nations 3.2.8 German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) 3.2.9 International Energy Agency (IEA) 3.2.10 Others 3.2.11 Implications of the International Transport DB Case Study Chapter 4. National Transport DB Model for Developing Countries 4.1 Role of Transport Data in Developing Countries 4.2 National Transport DB Model (NTDB model) 4.2.1 What is NTDB? 4.2.2 Goal of NTDB 4.2.3 NTDB Model Configuration 4.2.4 Legal Support for NTDB 4.2.5 Coordination/cooperation Among Agencies 4.2.6 NTDB Center 4.2.7 Implementation of Model 4.3 Data Collection and Management 4.3.1 Data Collection Procedure 4.3.2 Road Traffic Counting 4.3.3 Passenger Survey 4.3.4 Trip Generation Rate Survey 4.3.5 Freight Travel Survey 4.3.6 Transport Network Survey 4.3.7 Establishment of Origin-Destination (OD) Database 4.3.8 Construction of Transportation Model Network 4.3.9 Data Collection from Existing Sources 4.4 Suggested Important DB Items 4.4.1 Principle of Statistical-Item Selection 4.4.2 Selection Process and Method 4.4.3 Establishment of Statistical-Item Candidate Groups 4.4.4 First Selection 4.4.5 Second Selection 4.5 Standardization by Statistical Item 4.5.1 Statistical items for Standardization 4.5.2 Standardization of Metadata 4.6 Standardization of Metadata by Category 4.6.1 Socioeconomic Indices 4.6.2 Roads 4.6.3 Railways 4.6.4 Maritime Transport 4.6.5 Air Transport 4.6.6 Energy 4.6.7 Summary Chapter 5. Future Global Transport DB (GTDB) Implementation Direction 5.1 Pilot Study of NTDB and GTDB concept 5.2 Building of Data-sharing Systems 5.3 Composition and Operation of the Global Transport DB (GTDB) Consultative Council 5.4 GTDB Phased-in Implementation Plan 5.5 Financing Measures References Appendix