Road
Policies to Extend the Life of Road Assets
Research Report, Policy Insights,
20 December 2018
- Introduce a proactive approach for the maintenance of road assets.
- Build a proactive, data-driven approach to the maintenance of road assets.
- Strive for continuous professionalisation in road asset management.
- Move from managing the assets to cross-asset management.
- Adopt regulatory frameworks that treat the use of road assets as an economic input.
- Implement infrastructure pricing for trucks to improve cost recovery.
- Better understand the reasons for non-compliance with truck weight limits.
- Focus on positive incentives for efficiency in regulatory and compliance frameworks.
- Develop use cases and business models for the digital infrastructure of truck traffic management.
- Create incentives for the logistics sector to implement truck traffic management.
- Improve awareness of the mutual impact that policies have on the environmental performance of road freight transport and extending the lifespan of road assets.
- Focus on creating a comprehensive regulatory environment rather than on individual measures.
Korea’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Mitigation Policies in Logistics
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 June 2018
UN Vehicle Regulations Agreements Activities Related to Heavy Duty Vehicles Fuel Economy
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 June 2018
Emerging Trends on Demand and Mode Choice - Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA)
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 June 2018
Potential of Intelligent Transport Systems to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Road Freight Transport
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 June 2018
Decarbonising Freight Transport: A review of technical, managerial and operational options
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 June 2018
Decarbonising Road Freight: Results of expert opinion survey
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 June 2018
Summary of the ITF Roundtable on Truck Automation and Platooning
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 June 2018
Lean and Green Logistics: The Road to Zero Emissions Starts Here
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 June 2018
An Empirical Agent-based Model for Urban Road Freight Transport
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 June 2018
Insurance Market Incentives and Constraints and Complementary Public Policies
Presentation, slides, speech,
31 August 2011
Moving Freight with Better Trucks
Research Report, Policy Insights,
18 April 2011
- The freight transport task is growing rapidly in most regions and requires effective utilisation of all modes of transport.
- The safety and environmental impacts of road haulage require regulatory intervention for optimal outcomes.
- Compliance can be improved greatly through legislation that assigns responsibility.
- Compliance regimes can be enhanced by exploiting technological innovations.
- A performance based approach to regulation offers the potential to meet community objectives for road freight transport more fully.
- Many higher capacity vehicles have equivalent or even better intrinsic safety characteristics in some respects than most common workhorse trucks.
- Truck crash energies mean safety regulation must pay particular attention to managing truck speeds and driver alertness and impairment.
- Higher capacity vehicles have potential to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.
- Higher capacity vehicles can result in fewer vehicle-kilometres travelled.
- The lower unit costs offered by higher productivity trucks could result in increased overall demand for road freight transport and a transfer of freight from other modes.
- Road pricing systems can be developed to manage use of the transport network more efficiently.
- Road infrastructure and trucks need to be developed in concert.
- Significant opportunities for improvement of the regulation of heavy trucks have been identified.