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Review of road safety in Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations, 1999)
This publication, the final report of a series on road safety, reflects the road safety situation in the region at the end of 1994. The report, based on the analyses of the questionnaires and from other sources, outlines ...
Multistage environmental and social impact assessment of road projects guidelines for a comprehensive process
(United Nations, 2001)
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 ...
Increasing the use of smart mobility approaches to improve traffic conditions in urban areas of South-East Asia : policy guidelines
(United Nations, 2022)
<p>South-East Asia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with a total population of more than 600 million. In 2019, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the subregion was more than US$3 trillion, representing ...
Sustainable freight transport in Sri Lanka
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-30)
<p>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 ...
Strategies to tackle the issue of seat belt and child restraint use for road safety in the Asia-Pacific region : implementation framework
(UN.ESCAP, 2021)
<p>Creating safe and inclusive road transport has become a matter of global and regional concern, as the human and economic burden that road crashes produce severely temper sustainable development. Overall, ESCAP road ...
Airship technology for air connectivity and humanitarian aid in the Caribbean and the Pacific
(United Nations, 2022)
The Airship transport alternative, in its diverse engineering variants, has the potential to be a game-changing technology with significant development in recent years. It offers the technical capabilities to make a broad ...
Strengthening capacity for operationalizing sustainable transport connectivity along the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor to achieve the 2030 Agenda : study report 2022
(United Nations, 2022)
<p>In line with ESCAP’s objective to strengthen the intra- and inter-regional transport connectivity, the secretariat has undertaken the study project on “Strengthening capacity for operationalizing sustainable ...
Ministerial Declaration and Regional Action Programme for Sustainable Transport Development in Asia and the Pacific (2022–2026)
(United Nations, 2022)
The fourth session of the Ministerial Conference on Transport held in Bangkok and online from 14 to 17 December 2021 adopted the Ministerial Declaration on Sustainable Transport Development in Asia and the Pacific and a ...
Road safety and mobile phone use in the Asia-Pacific Region
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-20)
Road crashes resulted in an estimated 720,000 fatalities in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019, accounting for 56% of global fatalities. In addressing the road safety crisis, voluntary performance targets for road safety risk ...