All Transport
Smart Use of Roads
Research Report, Policy Insights,
19 March 2019
- Make use of smart technologies part of the response to congestion.
- Invest in improving junctions where these create bottlenecks.
- Use hard-shoulder running and ramp metering to get the most out of trunk road capacity.
- Use congestion pricing for active traffic management as part of integrated urban policies.
- Adopt barrier-free electronic tolling to remove bottlenecks.
Complementary Information to Articles 8), 9) and 10) of Chapter 2 and to Definitions in Chapter 1 of the User Guide on ECMT Multilateral Quota, 2014
Official Document,
18 March 2019
Quantifying Private and Foreign Investment in Transport Infrastructure
Discussion Paper, Policy Insights,
15 March 2019
- Improve the collection and dissemination of disaggregated data on the level and characteristics of private investments in transport infrastructure.
Calles Más Seguras: Benchmarking Mundial de Seguridad Vial Urbana
Research Report, Policy Insights,
12 March 2019
- Desarrollar observatorios de movilidad en las ciudades.
- Recolectar datos de accidentes de tráfico de los hospitales, no solo de los registros policiales.
- Adoptar objetivos ambiciosos para reducir el número de víctimas.
- Centrarse en la protección de los usuarios vulnerables de la vía pública.
- Utilizar indicadores apropiados para medir la seguridad de los usuarios vulnerables de la vía pública en las ciudades.
- Calcular la población que se desplaza de día para mejorar la comparabilidad de las estadísticas de seguridad vial.
- Dar prioridad a la investigación sobre accidentes de tráfico urbanos.
Appendix III: I. Decision no 465 of 26 July 2018 on Establishment of Task Force for Improving the Level of Road Control of Motor Vehicles and Trailers II. Responsibilities of GDRTS
Official Document,
10 March 2019
Working Group on Strategic Infrastructure Planning, 1st Meeting, 28 February - 1 March 2019. Agenda
Official Document,
24 February 2019
Report by FYR Macedonia on Implementation of the Quality Charter
Official Document,
11 February 2019
Report by Bosnia and Herzegovina on Implementation of the Quality Charter
Official Document,
11 February 2019
What is Private Investment in Transport Infrastructure and Why is it Difficult?
Discussion Paper, Policy Insights,
28 January 2019
- Distinguish between infrastructure and the operations that take place on it.
- To pursue private investment in infrastructure, choose between competition for the contract or the regulated model.
- Differentiate between attracting private investors in existing assets (privatisation) and in new infrastructure PPPs.
Commercial Vehicle On-Board Safety Systems
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
24 January 2019
- Ensure international harmonisation of regulation for autonomous trucks.
- Use the flexibility within existing regulatory frameworks to accommodate vehicle automation technologies.
- Weigh the advantages, disadvantages and limits to stretching existing regulatory frameworks to cover safe vehicle automation.
- Consider data-led approaches for regulating vehicles with high automation levels. Consider government intervention to address labour issues if and where they arise.
Cтратегические пункты для обсуждения развития многосторонней Квоты и доклад Министрам (Расширенная Подгруппа, задача 2)
Official Document,
23 January 2019
Cruise Shipping and Urban Development: The Case of Venice
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
21 December 2016
- Create certainty about the future of cruise shipping in Venice.
- Develop a tourism strategy for the city including guidance on which tourists to prioritise.
- Develop instruments to contain the number of tourists in the city of Venice.
- Develop an action plan for extracting more value from home port passengers.
- Give a more structural character to environmental policies that have a discontinuous nature.
Adapting Transport to Climate Change and Extreme Weather
Research Report, Policy Insights,
14 December 2016
- Act now to preserve the value of transport infrastructure and maintain network performance.
- Protect transport infrastructure against climate impacts through good maintenance.
- Prepare for more frequent and unexpected failure of transport infrastructure.
- Account for temporary unavailability of transport assets in in service continuity plans.
- Assess vulnerability of transport assets and networks from climate change and extreme weather.
- Focus on transport system resilience, not just on designing robust infrastructure.
- Re-evaluate thinking on redundant transport infrastructure.
- Do not rely solely on cost-benefit analysis for appraising the value of transport infrastructure.
- Develop new decision-support tools that incorporate deep uncertainty into asset appraisal.
Projet d'ordre du jour revisé de la première réunion de la Task Force 2018 sur la sécurité et la sûreté des transports, 27 octobre 2016, Mexico City
Official Document,
10 October 2016
Revised Draft Agenda of the First Meeting of the 2018 Task Force on Transport Safety and Security, 27 October 2016, Mexico City
Official Document,
10 October 2016
Zero Road Deaths and Serious Injuries
Research Report, Policy Insights,
1 October 2016
- Think safe roads, not safer roads.
- Provide strong, sustained leadership for the paradigm shift to a Safe System.
- Foster a sense of urgency to drive change.
- Underpin aspirational goals with concrete operational targets.
- Establish shared responsibility for road safety.
- Apply a results-focussed way of working among road safety stakeholders.
- Leverage all parts of a Safe System for greater overall effect and so that if one part fails the other parts will still prevent serious harm.
- Use a Safe System to make city traffic safe for vulnerable road users.
- Build Safe System capacity in low and middle-income countries to improve road safety in rapidly motorising parts of the world.
- Support data collection, analysis and research on road traffic as a Safe System.
Appendix I: Decree by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation on Approval of Initial and Periodic Training Programmes for Professional Competence
Official Document,
13 September 2016
Appendix II: Act on the Organisation of Working Time in Transport and on Amendments of the Act No 125/2006 Coll. on Labour Inspection and on Amendments of the Act No 82/2005 Coll.
Official Document,
1 September 2016
Appendix III: Decree of the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development of the Slovak Republic Implementing the Act No 56/2012 Coll. on Road Transport, of 21 March 2012
Official Document,
31 August 2016
Appendix I: Act on Compulsory Initial Qualification and Periodic Training of Certain Drivers (21 April 2006)
Official Document,
31 August 2016
Road Safety Annual Report 2016
IRTAD, Policy Insights,
14 July 2016
- Focus road safety policy on vulnerable road users.
- Enforce drink driving laws, speed limits and the wearing of seat belts and motorcycle helmets.
- Analyse the reasons behind the relatively poor road safety performance in 2015 and adapt policies.