Browsing Reports by Subject "GOODS TRANSPORT"
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Facilitating the deployment of highly and fully automated vehicles in road traffic along the Asian Highway Network
(United Nations, 2022)The use of highly fully automated vehicles, as part of smart transport systems can significantly reduce the economic, social and environmental costs of passenger and freight transport, while enhancing its overall quality ...
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Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on sustainable freight transport in North and Central Asia
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-30)Freight demand continues to grow in the North and Central Asia subregion in line with a growing population, industrialization, trade expansion, and economic development. So further development of freight transport systems ...
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Policy framework for the development of intermodal interfaces as part of an integrated transport network in Asia
(United Nations, 2009)This study is part of a wider programme of action being carried out by UNESCAP to facilitate the development of intermodal transport and logistics in the region under the mandate provided by the Busan Declaration. It ...
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Smart railway solutions for trans-asian railway network in the times of COVID-19 pandemic
(United Nations, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the dynamics of international freight transport as no single event has probably done before in the recent past. The outbreak of the pandemic has adversely impacted freight transported ...
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Sustainable freight transport in ASEAN challenges and opportunities
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-15)Economic connectivity is a key political priority for Southeast Asian countries that are members of the ASEAN. Growing subregional transport and trade have generated an ‘economy of scale’ effect for the ...
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Sustainable freight transport in Bangladesh
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-08)In Bangladesh, the demand for freight transportation is rising. At the same time however, the country’s transportation and logistics networks have reached capacity and are in various states of disarray. Investments ...
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Sustainable freight transport in Sri Lanka
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-30)The study aims to provide current state of sustainable freight transport in Sri Lanka and encourages the Government of Sri Lanka and other relevant stakeholders to make freight transportation planning, policy, and ...
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Transport and trade connectivity in the age of pandemics : contactless, seamless and collaborative UN solutions : Proposals for crisis-response provisions in regional and bilateral transport agreements of the ESCAP member states
(United Nations, 2021)The United Nations inter-agency project "Transport and trade connectivity in the age of pandemics: Contactless, seamless and collaborative UN solutions" project responds to a call to action, for the immediate health ...
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Transport and trade in the age of pandemics : implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial contracts covering the transportation of goods in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond
(United Nations, 2021)The "Transport and trade connectivity in the age of pandemics: Contactless, seamless and collaborative UN solutions" project responds to a call to action, for the immediate health response required to suppress transmission ...