Aviation
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
Safer City Streets: Methodology for Developing the Database and Network
Guidelines/User Guide,
9 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
Policy-makers forum: how should governments around the world prepare for automated vehicles?
Promotional Publication,
6 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.
Airport Demand Forecasting for Long-Term Planning
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
6 July 2016
- Use quantitative methods to analyse the key drivers of airport demand.
- Use expert guidance to help interpret the quantitative results.
- Quality-assure the analysis and counter the risks of optimism bias.
- Reflect the risks and uncertainties that arise in even the best forecasts.
- Make better use of demand forecasts in airport infrastructure planning.
Note on Methods for Seasonal Adjustment: ITF Quarterly Transport Statistics
Guidelines/User Guide,
23 June 2016