This publication focuses on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of road projects and implementation problems in the UNESCAP region. The environmental and social damages caused by road infrastructure development and ...

Differences in national standards in the design and construction of road infrastructure as well as vehicles’ permissible weight, dimensions and emissions pose various challenges in international road transport. For ...

<p></p> Now more than ever, the region’s development is reliant on its transport system. Whether to carry manufactured and agricultural products to international markets, food to rural and urban communities, workers to ...

<p></p> The objective of the regional strategic framework is to help regional member countries and their development partners increase the effectiveness of facilitation programmes and projects and accelerate the development ...

On 8 December 2016, the Governments of China, Mongolia and the Russian Federation signed an Intergovernmental Agreement on International Road Transport along the Asian Highway Network. It is the first agreement to formalize ...

The provision of adequate infrastructure, along with macroeconomic stability and a long-term development strategy, is one of the necessary conditions for sustainable economic and social development. To this end, the study ...

The present study takes as its focus seafarers as an essential manpower resource for development of the shipping industry and the marine transport sector in the Asia-Pacific region. Major issues relating to seafarers have ...

The Trans-Asian Railway in the ASEAN and Indo-China Subregion is one of four corridor studies undertaken by UN ESCAP as part of the Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project. The report presents the ...

Connectivity between Asia and Europe is still mainly dominated by sea routes even though overland transport connections are shorter in terms of distance and twice faster compared to sea freight. This is the result of ...

Given that the flow of information has a crucial impact on the efficiency of the railway border crossing processes, electronic exchange of information among railways could enormously increase the efficiency at the railway ...