Supporting the implementation of automated road and rail solutions

30 November - 01 December 2020
Webinar

A greater use of smart technologies can significantly reduce physical contacts among participants of international supply chains while ensuring the seamless flow of goods and services – an element of great importance in the time of pandemics and other similar disruptions. The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted or facilitated innovative solutions in the freight sector with countries leveraging "intelligent" technologies in rail and road transport.

30 October 2020

The policy brief explores challenges and opportunities for sustainable railway transport connectivity in the times of COVID-19 pandemic. 

The resilience shown by railway transport during the pandemic gives an opportunity to railways of the region to turn this crisis and period of uncertainty into an opportunity by undertaking measures to increase the comparative advantages of railway transport enhancing sustainability of transport networks.

30 September 2020

This technical note aims to offer policy recommendations for policy responses using new technologies and smart road solutions to preserve the regional transport connectivity in the time of the pandemics and other similar disruptions.

Freight transport operations poses the risks during the pandemics, especially if it is not fully computerized. As documents and goods continue to be subjected to physical checks for customs and other regulatory purposes, crew members and staff at border-crossing points and control terminals are exposed to the risk of contagion by the nature of their work. in this context, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and intelligent transport systems (ITS) is directly relevant to the pandemic response and recovery policies.