Why it pays for cities to fight road deaths – and how they can get better at it
Every minute someone dies in a car crash on an urban street. Now cities around the world who want to become more liveable are joining forces to get better at making their citizens safe when they’re on the streets. Continue reading Why it pays for cities to fight road deaths – and how they can get better at it
Are Zero Road Deaths Possible?
By Hans Michael Kloth, International Transport Forum. This post is jointly published with the OECD Insights blog. Every year around the globe, 1.25 million people are killed in traffic – about the population of a city like Munich, Stockholm or Dallas. Up to 50 million are seriously injured. Road crashes kill more people than malaria or tuberculosis and are steadily working their way up the … Continue reading Are Zero Road Deaths Possible?
Driving from a distance
How remote-controlled trucks could pave the way towards fully automated driving Continue reading Driving from a distance
Rough waters for container shipping. Why Hanjin, the world’s seventh largest container line, went under
Olaf Merk, Ports and Shipping Project Manager, International Transport Forum. We are co-publishing with the OECD Insights blog. Sad news. After months – even years – of pain and suffering, the South Korean container shipping company Hanjin finally sank and passed away. Not just any casualty, but the largest shipping bankruptcy in history: Hanjin was the world’s seventh biggest container line with a fleet of … Continue reading Rough waters for container shipping. Why Hanjin, the world’s seventh largest container line, went under
Of taxis and smart phones: balancing innovation and regulation
Sharon Masterson, Corporate Partnership Board, International Transport Forum Necessity is the mother of invention – or is it? It could be argued that the time-honoured adage only holds when we know what we want or need. But what if we don’t? “If I had asked people what they wanted”, Henry Ford famously quipped, “they would have said ‘faster horses’.” While the car was a revolutionary innovation, … Continue reading Of taxis and smart phones: balancing innovation and regulation
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