Summit and Events

• Continue replacement of motorcycles in the current delivery fleet with compact e-vehicles.
• Carry out focus group studies to capture qualitative data and pilot studies to reflect local context.
• Prioritise driver confidence through training and clear communication of vehicle safety features.
• Communicate overall efficiency gains with e-vehicles to drivers.

• Update transport policy and regulation to accommodate innovation that can contribute to economic growth and make transport more sustainable.
• Cooperate with research and industry, coordinate with all government levels.
• Leave room for bottom up innovation through a light regulatory touch.
• Be ready to facilitate discussion between innovative actors and traditional operators.
• Foster innovation in the delivery of concessioned transport services.
• Support change and build on existing cultural practices in order to improve quality of life for all.
• Create innovation sandboxes/living labs.
• Look beyond transport towards non-traditional policy matters.

• Update the value of reductions in travel time periodically to reflect changes in preferences and travel patterns.
• Account for the quality of travel conditions.
• Employ stated preference surveys supported by other evidence for determining the value of reductions in travel time.
• Investigate how the use of Big Data can improve understanding of travel behaviour.
• Continue to use cost-benefit analysis in transport decision making.
• Strengthen the link between modelling, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation.

• 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.

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Policy Insights

• Develop mobility observatories in cities.
• Collect traffic casualty data from hospitals, not only from police records.
• Adopt ambitious targets to reduce the number of casualties.
• Focus on protecting vulnerable road users.
• Use appropriate indicators to measure the safety of vulnerable road users in cities.
• Estimate daytime population to improve the comparability of traffic safety statistics.
• Prioritise research on urban road crashes.

• Invest in ways that support polycentric urban development where natural regional markets exist.
• Locate strategic functions of the city cluster in areas most accessible by all citizens.
• Adapt governance structures to clustered urban development.
• Address structural issues that lead to unnecessary urban spread.

• Consider integrating Shared Mobility services into the Greater Dublin Area transport system.
• Shared mobility services should be provided on a large-enough scale to reap full benefits.
• Use shared services as a feeder service for high-capacity public transport and the existing bus network.
• Use alternative fuels for shared mobility fleet to reduce emissions further.
• Target potential early adopters for Shared Mobility services in order to achieve scale of service.
• Set the regulatory framework for shared mobility services to generate maximum societal benefit.

• Public authorities must prepare for a much more networked and meshed world.
• Take into account changes in data science and technology when developing Mobility as a Service.
• Look beyond initial cryptocurrency applications of distributed ledger technologies.
• Governments should help deploy the building blocks that enable wider uptake of distributed ledgers.
• Apply blockchain technology now for slow and (relatively) small transport use cases; anticipate next generation distributed ledger technologies for “big and fast” applications to be deployed later.
• Governments should develop algorithmic code-based regulation to accompany the uptake of distributed ledger technologies.

• Design interchange stations to provide secure, uncongested conditions for transfer by the shortest routes possible.
• Provide adequate bike parking areas at stations and stops.
• Integrate ticketing and information systems as well as the physical transport infrastructure.
• Establish integrated urban transport plans in consultation with stakeholders and the public.