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Exploring Transport Options for Asian Cities |
Many Asian countries
are experiencing significant urbanisation and confront related transport challenges in their cities
due to sprawl, congestion, pollution, safety and access. A seminar on 24 June in Tokyo
jointly organised by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ITF explored future policy directions in the context of the ASEAN-Japan Senior Transport Officials Meeting (STOM), which brings together the region's Vice-Ministers in charge of transport. In his keynote, ITF Secretary-General José Viegas emphasised the importance of smarter modal integration and land use policies. He particularly highlighted the ongoing conceptual shift from transport as a provider of mobility to an enabler of access. Viegas also underlined ITF's commitment to intensify relations with the emerging nations of the region.
(Photo: tokyoform | Flickr cc)
More on ITF's
work on urban transport
Seminar Programme (pdf)
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| ITF Calls for Wider Integration of Intelligent
Transport Systems |
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The need to consider intelligent transport systems (ITS) in the wider
framework of planning processes, regulation, concession of services and
power allocation across administrations was the key message from ITF
Secretary-General José Viegas at the Ministerial Session of the 10th ITS European Congress held on
16-19 June in Helsinki, Finland. Mr Viegas delivered his remarks in the
presence of Finland's Minister of
Transport Henna Virkkunen and European Commission Vice President
Siim Kallas. Viegas also participated in two plenary sessions
focusing on open data and markets for mobility.
More
information on the 10th ITS European Congress (external website)
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| New Research Sheds More Light on Project Cost Overruns |
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Cost overruns for large infrastructure projects are a major concern for
decision makers.
Most current research focuses on optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation
by bidders as
explanations. New research by ITF Economist Dr Dejan Makovsek
suggests another factor - using average historical bid data rather than
project-specific data - for cost estimates is
at work and should be factored into the current forecasting methods. The
paper has just been published in the latest issue of Transport
Policy (Elsevier).
(Photo: World Bank Photo
Collection | Flickr cc)
Go to abstract of paper Systematic construction risk, cost estimation mechanism and unit price movements
ITF work on infrastructure
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| MobiPrize to Honour New Mobility Entrepreneurship |
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The University of Michigan's SMART programme,
with which ITF has
collaborated in a number
of ways, has launched a new award to encourage new mobility entrepreneurship. The MobiPrize is open to cities, states, government departments and agencies that encourage a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in sustainable transport. Awards will be presented during the Intelligent Transport Society's (ITS) World Congress in Detroit, USA, in September 2014. The
deadline for applications is 7 July 2014.
Pictured: Philippe Crist, Susan Zielinski, Santhosh Kodukula launching the SMART MobiPrize
at ITF 2014 Summit.
More information on MobiPrize (external link)
Video
interview on MobiPrize
(external link)
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Key outcomes of the 2014 Summit
on "Transport for a Changing World" were at the centre of the keynote
address by ITF Head of Policy and Summit Preparation Mary Crass
(pictured) at the PTV Group's
Shaping Transportation
conference on 26 May in Berlin, Germany. PTV Group are a member of the ITF
Corporate Partnership Board.
Photo: © PTV Group / Harald Fuhr
Mary Crass also represented the ITF at a Stakeholder
Roundtable organised by Michelin, also an ITF Corporate Partnership
Board Member, in Clermont Ferrand, France on 14 May.
ITF
sponsored a special policy-focused opening plenary
session on Cost-Benefit Analysis of Long-Term Transportation
Infrastructure Investments at the International Transport Economics
Association (ITEA) Conference in Toulouse, France, on 5-7 June. Head of
Research Stephen
Perkins represented ITF at the special
session which takes forward research by the ITF
Working Group on Assessment of Policies for Long-Term Transition to Sustainable Transport.
Stephen Perkins joined rail industry leaders and research
experts to discuss the potential for competition in the
high-speed rail sector and to share Italy's experience to date at the Transforum Seminar in Rome, Italy, on 12-13 June. The Transforum project is a discussion forum on
the implementation of goals set out in the
European Commission's 2011 White Paper on transport.
Transforum
Project website
The European Commission's
Transport Advisory Group met in Brussels, Belgium on 13
May. The group comprises around 30 senior research stakeholders who
provide guidance to the Commission on implementing the multibillion euro
Horizon 2020 framework research programme. Head of Research Stephen
Perkins represented ITF.
Innovation in
aviation focusing on air traffic management was the theme of a
presentation by ITF Transport Researcher Antigoni Lykotrafiti at the 3rd
Aviation Conference of the Hellenic Aviation Society in Athens, Greece
on 12 May.
A presentation on the economics and logistics
of ports
in Latin America was delivered at the Port Finance
International (PFI) Conference in Mexico City, Mexico by ITF's Olaf Merk
on 4 June. The conference aims to inform port-related actors on new port
developments and investment opportunities. A study mission to the port
of Veracruz followed the conference.
Olaf Merk also participated
in a study mission to the Belgian port city of Antwerp on 17-18 June.
The focus of the mission was on long-term port
competitiveness and mobility issues. A preliminary report on mobility and institutional
framework will be followed by a final report at the end of 2014.
ITF is
very pleased to welcome two new staff members:
Kazuya
Fukuhara joins ITF as a summer intern and is completing his
Master's Degree in Public Policy at the University of Chicago, USA. At
ITF he will research transport challenges for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic
Games for foreign tourists. Following his studies, he will return to the
Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism
(MLIT).
Olaf Merk has joined the ITF on a
six-month secondment from the OECD's Public Governance and
Territorial Development Directorate, where he has directed the Port-Cities Programme.
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