The Declaration contains requests to ESCAP concerning resource mobilization, coordination, involvement of relevant stakeholders and monitoring of the Regional Action Programme (2002-2006) of the New Delhi Action Plan on ...

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 ...

This review describes the environment within which the transport sector is developing and principal challenges that this environment poses to governments, the transport industry and society at large. It traces the development ...

The Review of Developments in Transport in Asia and the Pacific is a biennial publication of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). This Special Issue of the Review reports on ...

The pilot study on strategies to mitigate the effects of physical isolation on remote island communities. Indonesia was chosen as the location for the pilot study. Adequate transport improves living standards through access ...

This report discusses participatory approaches to planning and development in Bangkok Metropolitan Area on local transport planning. It provides a background of the Rattanakosin Pilot Project aiming at contributing solutions ...

Freight forwarders are recognized as the backbone of multimodal transport in the Greater Mekong sub-region, and key players in the promotion and expansion of foreign trade and intra-regional trade. To enhance the activities ...

The Transport and Communications Decade for Asia and the Pacific, 1984-1995 was proclaimed by the General Assembly in 1984 and subsequently adopted by Transport and Communications Ministers at a meeting in 1985. Mid-term ...

The ESCAP secretariat undertook a review of five case studies in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines where interventions in the transport sector contributed substantially or played a catalytic role ...

This study, undertaken by ESCAP in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Transport Development and with the financial support of UNDP, is an extension of ESCAP's work towards reducing poverty and coping with globalization. ...