This year again, ECTRI joined business, government leaders and other transport stakeholders to discuss changes underway across the transport sector.
The 2017 Summit theme – Governance of Transport – made it clear that a fundamental shift is needed in the way that global transport systems operate. In ECTRI President’s words “The governance of this new transport system has to be different from todays practice and research is needed to find the path towards the new system”. Adding to that “future transport include more interactions between modes, actors and transport types”. This coordinated and cohesive approach to research and innovation strategies for all transport modes in Europe is the aim of the running SETRIS project.
This new system is moving towards a sustainable and low-carbon transport and ECTRI, as knowledge partner of the ITF Decarbonising project is committed to support ITF project team to meet the project goal of building capacity to help close the gaps between climate commitments and the CO2 reductions drawn at COP21.
Furthermore, as key governance challenge, ECTRI’s President also voiced that “(…) this new Governance will require a new work force which requires training”. This imperative need for adaptation of training and education content, curricula, tools and methodologies for the professionals in all transports areas is being currently addressed in the context of the SKILLFUL project.
Finally, transport ministers of ITF member countries named Dr. Young Tae Kim the new Secretary-General of the ITF. ECTRI congratulates Dr. Young Tae Kim and looks forward to continuing the fruitful cooperation with ITF and thanks the outgoing Secretary-General Professor José Viegas for the great work done.
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