Road freight transport is forecast to continue to grow substantially in most countries. The anticipated increase in infrastructure capacity will not, on its own, be sufficient to accommodate projected traffic levels at socially acceptable cost.

Approaches that relate to both, the vehicle fleet and the infrastructure are needed. Using high capacity vehicles HCVs is one of the most efficient measures to absorb some of this growth and to reduce CO2 emissions.

In hand with this come new policies for extending the life of road assets. Today, commuting is a major challenge for cities, companies, and their employees.

It is becoming increasingly severe due to human settlement and mobility patterns, congestion, absence of sufficient public transport, driving bans in cities and many other factors.

Only a joint effort of affected cities, mobility solution providers, companies, science, and the commuters itself can solve this problem.

To balance these heterogeneous interests, it requires a broad dialogue addressing the following question: How can the involved parties cooperate to develop new sustainable and intermodal mobility solutions for commuting?

This important moment marks the beginning of a process where countries need to start stepping up actions for climate protection and to define a clear policy pathway, especially for transport, where it remains one of the most challenging sectors to decarbonise.

Vehicle-to-vehicle communications and vehicle-to-infrastructure technologies, as well as alternative technological solutions i. Women use public transport in different ways than men because of their often more complex activity base and travel patterns.

How can transport systems be designed to better consider women's travel patterns? The first phase of these multi-billion dollar infrastructure investments focuses on developing and modernising means of transport covering highways, railways, ports, airports and pipelines.

Around the globe, between countries, from city to city, or to the other side of town, good transport infrastructure and efficient mobility services bring people together and goods to their markets.

The connectivity that transport provides widens horizons and opens up opportunities. It builds stronger communities and expands their reach.

It strengthens our economies and helps our societies to prosper. The Decarbonising Transport in Emerging Economies DTEE project aims to help national governments and other stakeholders to identify transport measures and establish pathways to reduce transport CO2 emissions and meet their climate goals and NDCs.

Unprecedented innovation in passenger mobility transport services over the last decade has drastically changed around the world.

Traditional centralised transport service provision, based around collective public transport services and taxis has been supplemented or replaced by new forms of services based on cheap and widely available telecommunications that provide decentralised and more personalised services to clients.

What is the role of governments in support of regional air connectivity? What are the costs and benefits of government intervention in the market for regional air connectivity?

What policies supporting domestic air connectivity are proving cost-effective? Transport connectivity is essential for the emergence and expansion of global value chains.

The event will focus on the issue of transport connectivity in Asia and the Pacific, presenting the regional approach to connectivity and assessing the progress reached in the identification and operation of the regional transport network.

This session will feature highlights of the ITF Transport Outlook, which provides an overview of recent trends and near-term prospects for the transport sector at a global level, as well as long-term prospects for transport demand to , for freight and passenger transport and CO2 emissions.

This session will feature a number of inspiring presentations from leading thinkers to showcase examples of recent transport innovations.

The transport and mobility sector is a hotbed of opportunity for innovative companies. This session will showcase innovative companies, notably startups that are shaking up the sector: With rapid technological advances and unprecedented levels of investment startups are playing an ever-more important role in shaping transport and mobility.

Connectivity is a 21st century mega-trend that is reshaping the world far beyond the transport sector. Integrating transport planning with other policy areas is challenging.

Yet transport is becoming more and more interdependent with electricity infrastructure as it decarbonises. The connectivity that transport provides widens horizons and opens up opportunities.

It builds stronger communities and expands their reach. It strengthens our economies and helps our societies to prosper.

The ITF Summit will explore how better transport connectivity can help integrate regions - from local communities and cities to global regions - and enable the achievement of economic, social, and environmental goals.

How can more seamless connections enhance door to door travel? Where can we build bridges, real and metaphorical, for better cross-border mobility?

What will connect better institutions, so they can function in a more integrated way? Discover our programme. Since , the Summit brings together ministers from around the world to share policy perspectives with CEOs, heads of international organisations, thought leaders from civil society and academia, and media.

The Summit addresses strategic and topical issues across all transport modes where participants can engage in the debate through a variety of session formats.

The Summit offers a rich programme of inspiring keynote addresses, interactive sessions featuring transport ministers and other ITF stakeholders to debate policy responses to the sector challenges.

Speakers Liza Castillo. Chiara Corazza. Young Tae Kim. Florent Menegaux. Mohamed Mezghani. Mary Robinson. Eamon Ryan.

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