Meeting Society’s Transport Needs under Tight Budgets

International Transport Forum/OECD Roundtable 8 March 2011, Mexico City

On 8 March, the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transport, in conjunction with the International Transport Forum, organised a roundtable seminar on Meeting Society’s Transport Needs under Tight Budgets. The event was part of the substantive preparations for the International Transport Forum’s 2011 Summit, to be held in Leipzig in May 2011, under the theme of "Transport for Society". This session brought together internationally recognised experts to consider various aspects of this theme.

Presentations

Transport Investment Selection under Scarce Public Resources. Criteria for private sector participation Mateu TURRO, Cadedratico de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain The Infrastructure Sector Alfonso BARONA, Director North America Business Development, Grupo CINTRA The State's Role in Providing Affordable Mass Transport Services for Low-Income Residents Roberto CERVERO, University of California, Berkeley, USA Assistance to Low-Income Users: Japanese Cases Kazuo INABA, Assistant Vice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan Alternative Modes of Transport to Benefit the Environment Wojciech SUCHORZEWSHI, Warsaw Institute of Technology, Poland Perspectives from Mexico to Achieve More with Less: Alternative Transport Modes and their Social and Environmental Benefits Adriana LOBO, Centro de Transporte Sustentable, Mexico El financiamiento de la Infraestructura de Transportes Manuel ALBORNOZ, Inter-American Development Bank