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02-Jun-2009
The Secretary General of the International Transport Forum, Jack Short, opened the International Transport Forum 2009 in Leipzig on Tuesday with a tour of the accompanying exhibition. The International Transport Forum (ITF) with more than 700 attendees from politics, industry, science and civil society is the most important high level global platform focusing on today’s key transport issues. The consequences of the present downturn on the transport sector and the contribution of the sector in overcoming the crisis are the key topics being discussed at the four-day event in Leipzig.
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The International Transport Forum (ITF) will host a workshop on “Gateway Airport Investment and Development of Airline Services for a Global Economy”. This workshop will examine the development of gateway infrastructure for aviation, crucial to the functioning of the global economy.
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This high level seminar, held at the OECD on 25-26 September 2008 gathered 150 participants from 39 countries. It was the occasion to brief high level policy makers on recent work of the Joint Transport Research Centre of the OECD on road safety and to hold a policy debate on implementation, political feasibility and public acceptance of the measures recommended by researchers and by road safety managers in the best performing countries. For programme and presentations
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from 10-Jun-2008 to 01-Jan-2009
The first 2008 International Transport Forum on "Transport and Energy: the Challenge of Climate Change" was held in Leipzig from 28 – 30 May. Almost 900 participants from all 51 International Transport Forum Member Countries, Observers and India came to Leipzig for the Forum. More than 100 journalists from 12 countries covered the event.
Ministers of Transport from the Forum and OECD Member Countries also met and issued a set of Key Messages on Transport and Climate Change.
Click for Key Messages, videos, photos and other output from the Forum
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