Maritime
Safer Micromobility
27 March 2024
- Micromobility is becoming safer. But, an increase in severe injuries from e-scooter crashes is cause for concern. Overall, shared e-scooter crash risk is decreasing as their usage is increasing faster than injuries.
Safe infrastructure and vehicle design matter. A focus on rider behaviour and safety equipment must be complemented by better infrastructure and improved vehicle design – especially for e-scooters.
Reinforcing existing policies improves safety. Road safety measures also make micromobility safer – managing speed, providing training to road users and enforcing rules against impaired driving and riding.
Italy’s national railway operator FS Italiane joins the ITF Corporate Partnership Board
5 March 2024
The Future of Public Transport Funding
28 February 2024
- Fund public transport as a crucial part of a sustainable, decarbonised and accessible transport system.
- Formulate integrated funding strategies for future public transport services.
- Ensure effective co-ordination between levels of government when funding public transport investments.
- Improve the efficiency of public transport infrastructure investments and service provision.
- Adopt explicit fare policies and implement them via formal processes.
- Use structured fare policies for more equitable accessibility.
Brazilian TV journalist wins first ITF Journalism Award “Transport and Mobility in Latin America”
16 February 2024
Improving the Quality of Walking and Cycling in Cities
15 February 2024
- Focus on improving the quality (not quantity) of walking and cycling in cities.
- Democratise mobility space to ensure citizens can travel more safely, healthily and in comfort.
- Incorporate violence reduction as a critical transport policy goal.
- Remove car blinders from transport appraisal methods and consider a broader range of alternatives.
- Remove moto-normative policies to increase the effectiveness of new pro-walking and cycling policies.
- Decouple walking and cycling to focus on the different needs of pedestrians and cyclists.
- Ensure access to high-quality collective transport to enable better walking and cycling.
Youth on the Move: Young People and Transport in the 21st Century
30 January 2024
- Include young people in transport planning and decision-making.
- Proactively shape youth mobility behaviour for long-term sustainable transport outcomes.
- Adopt “soft measures” to influence young people’s travel choices.
- Collect data on young people’s mobility patterns, needs and expectations to enhance policies and planning.
Reducir las emisiones de CO2 del transporte puede reducir las necesidades de inversión en infraestructuras
18 January 2024
Des pays membres du FIT créent un mécanisme de soutien pour reconstruire les liaisons de transport de l'Ukraine
16 December 2023
ITF member countries create support mechanism for rebuilding Ukraine's transport links
15 December 2023
How Governments Can Bring Low-Emission Trucks to Our Roads – and Fast
13 December 2023
- Do not allow technological uncertainty to delay action. Postponing investment decisions due to technological uncertainty could cost more in environmental damages than acting proactively to support technologies that already have a high likelihood of success.
- Decide and provide. Policy makers should support only a limited number of promising solutions to guide the market and avoid diluting funds.
- Support for battery-electric vehicles is a low-regret policy. Electric truck technologies have the greatest potential to be low-carbon and cost-competitive.
- Invest in charging infrastructure with care, but without delay. Deploying depot chargers and strengthening grids pre-emptively of demand are essential.
Perspectivas del Transporte del ITF 2023
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.
Using Safety Performance Indicators to Improve Road Safety: The case of Korea
10 December 2023
- Adopt safety performance indicators to gain deeper insights into road-safety challenges
- Incorporate safety performance indicators in long-term national road safety strategies
- Identify and prioritise road-safety focus areas that reflect local circumstances
- Deploy tailored safety performance indicators for at-risk groups
- Introduce comprehensive data collection guidelines and maintain methodological consistency
- Use safety performance indicators to monitor road-safety progress regularly
- Establish clear targets and implement a robust mechanism to integrate safety performance indicators in the policy-formulation process
New but Used: The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Global Second-hand Car Trade
4 December 2023
- Improve the traceability of internationally traded used cars.
- Avoid hampering exports of used electric vehicles to emerging economies.
- Ensure used cars for export meet clear roadworthiness criteria, including their emissions performance.
- Develop sustainable transport strategies in emerging economies to avoid their over-dependence on cars.
ITF Secretary-General Kim visits Berlin for talks on Ukraine, G7/G20, transport decarbonisation
22 November 2023
Presente ahora su candidatura al Premio de Periodismo del ITF "Transporte y movilidad en América Latina"
13 November 2023
Inscreva-se agora para o Prêmio de Jornalismo da ITF "Transporte e Mobilidade na América Latina"
13 November 2023
Apply now for the ITF Journalism Award “Transport and Mobility in Latin America”
13 November 2023
Secretário-geral do ITF, Young Tae Kim, conversa em Brasília com ministros após adesão do Brasil ao Fórum
8 October 2023
ITF Secretary-General Young Tae Kim holds talks in Brasilia with Ministers after Brazil’s accession
8 October 2023
Transit-Oriented Development and Accessibility: Case studies from Southeast Asian cities
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
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
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.
Decarbonisation, Coastal Shipping and Multimodal Transport
10 September 2023
Include coastal shipping in national decarbonisation strategies.
Support the sector’s decarbonisation efforts by reducing investment uncertainty.
Harness the regional development potential of coastal shipping.
Strengthen competition enforcement while leveraging maritime cabotage regulations.
Water Transport Employment in Europe: The Role of Governance
9 August 2023
- Ensure European maritime policies support the development of seafarers’ skills.
- Improve employment statistics for water transport employment in Europe.
- Make sure that there is a “genuine link” between state and ship in shipping registries.
- Link state aid for the maritime sector more directly to employment-related objectives.
- Limit the eligibility for state aid of ships registered in second shipping registers.