Walking and Cycling
Perspectivas del Transporte del ITF 2023
Transport Outlook, Policy Insights,
10 December 2023
- Desarrollar estrategias globales para la movilidad y las infraestructuras futuras.
- Acelerar la transición a flotas de vehículos limpios.
- Aplicar políticas de cambio de modo de transporte y gestión de la demanda allí donde sean
más eficaces. - Considerar los beneficios adicionales para las zonas urbanas al evaluar las políticas.
- Reformar la fiscalidad de los vehículos para reflejar los costes externos de los nuevos parques
automovilísticos.
Transit-Oriented Development and Accessibility: Case studies from Southeast Asian cities
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
8 October 2023
- Ensure sufficient availability of public transport and infrastructure for active modes.
- Integrate transport planning with land use planning for co-ordinated implementation of measures.
- Embrace disruptive mobility trends in ways that ensure improved accessibility.
- Collect more and better-quality data on urban mobility to underpin transit-oriented development.
- Learn from international experiences with transit-oriented development and apply them locally.
Shifting the Focus: Smaller Electric Vehicles for Sustainable Cities
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
26 September 2023
- Shift the focus of policies that promote electric vehicles to end the dependency on large, under-used vehicles.
- Help make smaller electric vehicles an attractive choice for citizens.
- Ensure the transition to smaller electric vehicles goes in hand with adequate safety provisions.
- Fast-track the electrification of shared mobility services in complement with public transport.
- Ensure the availability of enough charging points to make electric mobility attractive.
Adapting (to) Automation: Transport Workforce in Transition
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
11 September 2023
- Incentivise companies and individuals to invest in adult learning.
- Transform education systems so they transmit the skills needed for the era of automation.
- Take an anticipatory approach to managing the impacts of automation.
- Steer technological change towards desired societal benefits through targeted regulation.
Towards the Light: Effective Light Mobility Policies in Cities
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
6 August 2023
- Seize the day! Take advantage of windows of opportunity to enact changes and set new goals.
- Line up! Align policies for promoting light mobility at the national, regional and local levels.
- Measure up! Assess potential interventions in support of light mobility and monitor and evaluate
- implemented policies to demonstrate impact.
- Get going! Improve walking conditions and local connectivity for improved access to opportunities.
- Go faster! Develop high-quality light mobility infrastructure for safe interactions with other traffic.
- Go further! Integrate collective transport, pedestrian spaces and light mobility infrastructure.
- Bring everyone along! Use communication campaigns and education programmes to inspire a change in attitudes and mobility behaviour.
Making Automated Vehicles Work for Better Transport Services: Regulating for Impact
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
25 June 2023
- Recognise new legal actors and responsibilities as part of the introduction of automated transport services.
- Extend the Safe System approach to automated vehicles.
- Invest in supporting infrastructure for AV-based transport services.
- Plan a long-term pathway for the transition towards AV-based transport services.
- Co-ordinate the roles of each level of government in regulating AV-based transport services.
- Share data to ensure integrated transport services but protect passenger data against misuse.
Cutting transport CO2 now reduces investment needs for core infrastructure
Media Release,
23 May 2023
ITF Transport Outlook 2023
Transport Outlook, Policy Insights,
23 May 2023
- Develop comprehensive strategies for future mobility and infrastructure
- Accelerate the transition to clean vehicle fleets
- Implement mode shift and demand-management policies where they are most effective
- Consider the additional benefits for urban areas when evaluating policies
- Reform vehicle taxation to capture external costs of new vehicle fleets
Preparing Infrastructure for Automated Vehicles
Research Report, Policy Insights,
3 May 2023
- Policy makers need new skills and partners to optimise the function and benefits of automated vehicles on their roads
- Automated vehicles will use existing roads in the near term, and are supported by good maintenance to a defined standard
- Developing “invisible infrastructures” offers greater opportunities for near-term benefits than upgrades to physical infrastructure
- A blueprint for co-operation can help traffic managers maximise the benefit of introducing automated vehicles as part of a wider transport network
- Standardised testing procedures across jurisdictions can accelerate the spread of automated vehicles
- Traffic laws and behavioural norms must be ready for automated vehicles
- There needs to be clear and coherent responsibility for ensuring automated vehicles work within a Safe System
- Developers and policy makers should co-operate on a research programme focused on key issues related to automated vehicles
Regulating App-based Mobility Services in ASEAN
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
23 April 2023
- Welcome app-based mobility but adjust regulation as necessary.
- Treat incumbents and entrants equally.
- Revise outdated and fragmented regulatory frameworks.
- Focus regulation on addressing clearly-identified market failures.
- Take the broader urban policy environment into account when designing regulations.
- Improve public authority digital skills and access to data.
- Streamline the regulatory framework for app-based mobility services.
- Monitor and enforce regulations.
- Build regulatory capacity within ASEAN member states.
The Potential of E-fuels to Decarbonise Ships and Aircraft
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
23 January 2023
- Introduce carbon pricing for shipping and aviation.
- Scale up the production of low-carbon e-fuel through targeted policies.
- Accelerate the deployment of electrolyser and renewable electricity generation capacity.
- Regulate the lifecycle emissions intensity of e-fuels, including non-CO2 emissions.
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.
Regulatory Capacity Building
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
8 November 2018
- Favour the use of confidential contracts.
- Consider the use of arbitration.
- Reinforce legal capacity.
- Develop financial accounting and reporting requirements.
- Consider adapting the standard North American financial reporting form for Mexico.
- Develop a standard waybill.
- Develop a waybill sample data collection and analysis system.
- Determine the structure of the waybill sample.
- Choose a contractor to process waybills.
- Establish a network modelling process to generate traffic flow analyses.
The case for regulating ridehailing and dockless bicycles
Presentation, slides, speech,
1 November 2018
Connectivity and City Clusters
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
29 October 2018
- Invest in ways that support polycentric urban development where natural regional markets exist.
- Locate strategic functions of the city cluster in areas most accessible by all citizens.
- Adapt governance structures to clustered urban development.
- Address structural issues that lead to unnecessary urban spread.
Shared Mobility Simulations for Dublin
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
9 October 2018
- Consider integrating Shared Mobility services into the Greater Dublin Area transport system.
- Shared mobility services should be provided on a large-enough scale to reap full benefits.
- Use shared services as a feeder service for high-capacity public transport and the existing bus network.
- Use alternative fuels for shared mobility fleet to reduce emissions further.
- Target potential early adopters for Shared Mobility services in order to achieve scale of service.
- Set the regulatory framework for shared mobility services to generate maximum societal benefit.
Information Sharing for Efficient Maritime Logistics
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
25 September 2018
- Support the emergence of open standards in maritime logistics.
- Ensure interoperability between public and private systems for the exchange of logistics information.
- Support ports in creating co-ordination platforms and Single Windows.
- Ensure that digitalisation in the maritime logistics chain occurs in a competitive environment.
- Closely monitor cyber security vulnerabilities in maritime logistics.
Automation and value of time for passenger transportation
Presentation, slides, speech,
24 September 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
Summary of the ITF Roundtable on Truck Automation and Platooning
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 June 2018