Asia and the Pacific Transport Forum 2022 - Pre-Forum Events

Asian Transport Outlook In-Depth Webinar
Tuesday 29 March | 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. 

ADB launched the Asian Transport Outlook (ATO) to provide a comprehensive knowledgebase on transport infrastructure, operations and policies in Asia and the Pacific. The ATO was developed to support the planning and the delivery of transport assistance by the ADB and to serve as a resource to the ADB Developing Member Countries in their efforts to develop the transport sector in a sustainable manner. The ATO is, however, also an important tool to assess how well aligned policies and investments in the transport sector  are in the Asia and Pacific region with relevant transport targets under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  This pre-event will give an overview of information available in the ATO and discuss how the ATO can be used to: (a) transform transport assistance in the ADB and other bi- and multilateral donor agencies to ensure its alignment with the Paris Agreement, (b) to scale up the adoption and implementation of transport related targets under the SDGs, (c) accelerate the implementation of the Aichi 2030 Declaration on Environmentally Sustainable Transport.  The pre-event is being co-organized with the United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD), in its capacity as the secretariat of the Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum.

Road Asset Management and Decarbonization Toolkit, Special Webinar
Tuesday 29 March | 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. 

The road sector represents the overwhelming majority of land transport infrastructure and services in most countries in Asia and the Pacific and provides numerous social and economic benefits. Any gains made now in reducing emissions in the road sector will benefit from a large multiplier effect and can contribute very significantly to achieving carbon neutrality in the long-term. Emission gains from roads is possible during construction, use, maintenance and end of life phases. This session presents and discusses a toolkit that has been developed based upon the Highway Development and Management system (HDM-4), to estimate the full lifecycle carbon emissions associated with road transport. The toolkit covers both works-based and traffic-based emissions, and can be applied at network and project levels to investigate implications of Avoid-Shift-Improve road decarbonization policies and strategies.

School Road Safety: Accessible, Inclusive and Safe
Wednesday 30 March | 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Every parent wants their child to feel and be safe using roads. Yet traffic injury is the leading cause of death for children globally. Many countries and cities are responding to this challenge with step changes in street design, traffic speeds and people’s behaviors to ensure safety in school travel. This session will present leading practice in school road safety and celebrate the growing number of success stories from country practitioners.

MobiliseYourCity Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning Special Webinar
Thursday 31 March | 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. 

This special webinar aims at presenting the MobiliseYourCity Partnership and its main activities and achievements in Asia. This online session consists of a webinar training on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) for the MobiliseYourCity Community of Practice (CoP) in Asia. It is organized in three parts. The first part will be dedicated to the presentation of the Partnership MobiliseYourCity. The second part will introduce the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) from its concept and its methodology to the lesson learnt by MobiliseYourCity members. SUMP is one of the main instruments promoted by the MobiliseYourCity Partnership to encourage for transition towards sustainable mobility planning. The final part is dedicated to the MobiliseYourCity Community of Practice Asia with presentations of regional city members results and achievements and an open discussion will follow.

E-mobility Special Webinar
Friday 1 April | 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

E-mobility has high potential in Asia and the Pacific, with specific instances of mass deployment of e-buses, and e-scooters see throughout the region. In order to capitalize on this potential, this special webinar will convene potential project sponsors and government stakeholders involved in implementing future E-mobility projects and programs, and have them share their experiences and knowledge to accelerate the uptake of E-mobility as a means of decarbonizing transport.

Moderators:

• Pamela Chiang, Senior Transport Specialist, Asian Development Bank
• Rob De Jong, Head, Transport Unit, United Nations Environment Program