Programme

Meeting the road safety challenge: Halving the deaths and injuries by 2030

Ministers' Roundtable

All countries are facing the persistent challenge of road crashes and their consequences. Around 1.35 million people are killed every year, and dozens of millions are severely injured in on-road crashes. The impact of the COVID pandemic on road safety has been mixed across countries and regions. The reduction in fatalities has been weaker than the reduction in traffic, and in some countries the number of fatalities has increased substantially as the recovery has taken place. There is, therefore, a need for a renewed focus on safety policies.

The future of supply chains: Innovation and regulation for greener, more accessible freight transport

Ministers' Roundtable

COVID-19 and measures related to the pandemic, such as lockdowns and border closures, have disrupted global supply chains. As such, they revealed the lack of resilience in freight transport networks: transit times have increased, schedule reliability has slipped, shipping costs have more than quadrupled and key transport nodes have become congested.

Global Transport and the War in Ukraine

Ministers' Roundtable

Opening remarks:

• Dr Young Tae Kim, Secretary-General, International Transport Forum
• Mr Andrzej Adamczyk, Minister of Infrastructure, Poland
• Mr Oleksandr Kubrakov, Minister of Infrastructure, Ukraine

ITF Ministers’ Roundtable interventions and discussion:

Closed Ministerial Session

Closed meeting of ITF member-country ministers.

Governing for inclusion: the right framework for universal access

Open Ministerial Session

The Open Ministerial will focus on the ways better regulation, improved coordination and clear roles and responsibilities among authorities at all levels of government can help promote social and economic inclusion. The speakers will debate which structures from different types of governance can help create integrated policies for more inclusive mobility.

Transport and climate change: Moving forward from COP26

Ministers' Roundtable

The 26th session of the Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework for the Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Glasgow in November 2021, under the Presidency of the Government of the United Kingdom. The transport sector has played an increasingly prominent role in COP meetings over the past few years and for the first time last year at COP26, it was represented at its highest level by Transport Ministers in a meeting organised by the UK COP Presidency and the UK Department for Transport.