Walking and Cycling
ITF Southeast Asia Transport Outlook
Transport Outlook, Policy Insights,
9 May 2022
- Design measures that mitigate the rise of transport emissions as demand grows in Southeast Asia and connectivity improves.
- Target maritime transport as a critical sector for decarbonising freight transport in Southeast Asia.
- Improved vehicle technologies will be important for decarbonising road transport as demand increases.
- Electrify rail networks to reduce emissions.
- Improve cross-border trade facilitation to enhance connectivity.
- Accelerate aviation's technology and fuel transition to reduce emissions.
- Leverage decarbonisation opportunities offered by urban transport.
Member countries vote to restrict participation of Russia and Belarus in operational activities of the ITF
Media Release,
3 May 2022
Implementing the ASEAN Fuel Economy Roadmap
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
27 March 2022
- Strengthen alignment on fuel economy measurement as a key prerequisite for further action.
- Ensure availability of testing capacity for fuel economy.
- Build data processing and storage capacity for benchmarking, monitoring and decision making.
- Adopt and align policy tools to strengthen ASEAN fuel economy ambition.
- Align fuel taxation policies across ASEAN.
- Include low- and zero-emission vehicles in the ASEAN fuel economy roadmap.
- Target all motorised vehicles with policies that reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
Sub-National Target Setting and Monitoring in the United Kingdom. Presentation by Richard Owen and Tania Fosdick, Agilysis, United Kingdom
Official Document,
10 March 2022
The Greek National Road Safety Plan 2021-30: Linking and Monitoring Road Safety Targets, KPIs and Measures. Presentation by George Yannis, NTUA, Greece
Official Document,
10 March 2022
Road Safety Strategy in a Regionalised Country. Presentation by Stijn Daniels, VIAS, Belgium
Official Document,
10 March 2022
Overview of Road Safety Strategies in IRTAD Countries. Presentation by Véronique Feypell, ITF Secretariat
Official Document,
10 March 2022
The National Road Safety Strategy of the United States. Presentation by Chou-Lin Chen, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, United States
Official Document,
10 March 2022
Reporting Mobility Data: Good Governance Principles and Practices
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
9 March 2022
- Embed individual privacy rights at the heart of data-reporting policies.
- Adopt coherent data-governance frameworks.
- Establish, document and communicate the basis for public authority data-reporting mandates.
- Align data-reporting mandates to targeted outcomes.
- Create and adhere to clear personal data processing, retention and destruction policies.
- Explore ways to ensure that data reporting preserves privacy and protects commercial interests by default.
Mode Choice in Freight Transport
Research Report, Policy Insights,
27 February 2022
- Apply integrated policy approaches to create coherent interventions across freight-transport modes.
- Focus on mitigating external costs associated with each freight mode, rather than on modal shift as such.
- Improve the evaluation of policy interventions’ effectiveness to better inform measures that influence the choice of freight transport modes.
- Create fair competition between freight transport modes.
Streets That Fit: Re-allocating Space for Better Cities
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
16 February 2022
- Adopt meaningful indicators for how urban street space is used.
- Re-allocate street space to account for diverse uses and users.
- Prioritise people over vehicles when allocating street space.
- Explore the benefits of dynamically re-allocating certain street spaces.
- Adopt Safe System principles to guide the re-allocation of street space.
Colombia's President Iván Duque and ITF Secretary-General Young Tae Kim hold talks in Paris
Media Release,
10 February 2022
Gestion du contingent Situation as from 1st January 2022; Management of the Quota Situation au 1er janvier 2022
Official Document,
18 January 2022
Summary Record of the 7th International Transport Statistics Meeting, 21-22 October 2021
Official Document,
13 January 2022
Safety Management Systems
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
21 December 2018
- Management commitment to establishing safety policies and objectives
- Inclusion of explicit safety (non-punitive) reporting procedures
- Safety performance monitoring and measurement
- Identification of accountable management employees
- Appointment of key safety personnel responsible for safety oversight and promotion
- Implementation of a risk management process to identify hazards and associated risks
- Safety training at management and employee levels
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.
How to Better Reflect Transport in Climate Action Efforts
Policy Brief, Policy Insights,
19 December 2018
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Policy Insights
Government Support Measures for Domestic Air Connectivity
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
10 December 2018
- Establish explicit domestic transport connectivity objectives.
- Assess the impacts of potential intervention in the aviation market.
- Monitor and periodically evaluate the effectiveness of support for domestic air connectivity.
- Make the award of subsidies transparent.
- Keep support programmes simple.
- Provide incentives to create value-for-money.
- Weigh the benefits of safeguarding slots at congested airports against the costs of denying them to more profitable services.