MOBILIZING DEVELOPMENT

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4. RECOMMENDATIONS
The below recommendations by the High-Level Advisory Group are intended to advance sustainable transport, defined
as the provision of services and infrastructure for the mobility of people and goods—advancing economic and social
development to benefit today’s and future generations—in a manner that is safe, affordable, accessible, efficient, and
resilient, while minimizing carbon and other emissions and environmental impacts.
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
1. Make transport planning, policy and investment
decisions based on the three sustainable
development dimensions—social development,
environmental (including climate) impacts and
economic growth—and a full life cycle analysis.
a. Give paramount attention to safety for all
transport users, and ensure that quality of life
improvements and advances against negative
environmental impacts are fundamental to
policy and investment decisions.
b. Advance equitable access (to jobs, markets,
services) as a key guiding principle for transport
planning and policy and for investments
in infrastructure (maintenance, renewal, or
building, as applicable).
c. Ensure that resilience to climate impacts
and other natural and economic shocks and
chronic stresses is central to planning transport
infrastructure and developing transport
networks and that opportunities to “leapfrog” to
more sustainable infrastructure and transport
systems are maximized.
d. Make the maintenance of existing
infrastructure and the improvement of its
efficiency an integral part of transport policy
and investment decision making.
e. Improve internalizing external costs and benefits
of transport as a tool to achieve sustainable
and low-carbon transport whilst maintaining
equitable access for all.
f. Prioritize the use of full value chain analysis
in transport policy making, with the aim of
enhancing the cost efficiency of trade.
2. Integrate all sustainable transport planning efforts
with an appropriately-balanced development of
transport modes: integration vertically among
levels of government and horizontally across
modes, territories and sectors.
a. Develop, adopt and implement integrated
national sustainable transport frameworks
and strategies for the movement of people
and goods. Integrated planning for transport
systems and land use should advance
sustainable transport
b. Foster regional integration and institutional
cooperation among national governments to
enable the safe, secure and efficient movement
of people and goods across borders and along
major transport corridors, while reducing
economic, social and environmental costs across
the total value chain.
c. Develop sustainable urban mobility plans that
support intermodal and interconnected transport
networks for seamless and “door-to-door”
mobility and connectivity of people and goods,
aligned with national policies and supported
by national governments through guidance,
financial support and technical capacity building.
d. Align, within the national and local government
levels tasks and responsibilities of transport and
land use authorities with an eye toward a single
joint authority at each level with oversight of all
policy and planning aspects.
e. Promote regional and international dialogue
on sustainable development and the logistics
underpinning the movement of people and
goods, recognizing that efficient logistics drives
economic growth and social development.
3. Create supportive institutional, legal and
regulatory government frameworks to promote
effective sustainable transport.
a. Devolve authority to the appropriate levels of
government, ensuring that national, subnational
and local authorities have adequate funding,
resources and capacity to carry out their
responsibilities, including for the procurement
of public transport services.