The International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has opened a new chapter in its long-standing cooperation with the corporate world.
Twelve multi-national companies from seven countries met in Paris on Monday 20 January 2014 to inaugurate the Forum's new Corporate Partnership Board (CPB). The CPB will serve as the ITF's mechanism for including expert knowledge from corporations in transport and related areas for policy analysis.
The CPB's founding members are259 Kapsch TrafficCom (Austria - Intelligent Transport Systems); 5271 PTV Group (Germany - Intelligent Transport Systems); 184 Colas (France - infrastructure); AB 2394 Volvo (Sweden - automotive); 2661 China Communications Construction Company Group (CCCC, China - infrastructure); China Ocean Shipping Group Company (COSCO, China - shipping); Ekol Logistics (Turkey - logistics);; 7167 Meridiam Infrastructure (France - financial sector); 720 Michelin (France - automotive); 2454 Nissan (Japan - automotive); SerTrans (Turkey - logistics); and 344 Total (France - energy).
The inaugural CPB meeting agreed on operating guidelines and created a standing committee to govern the board's tactical business under the chairmanship of the ITF Secretary-General.
CPB activities will comprise the launch of policy analysis projects, events and publications on the basis of an annual work plan that will be agreed by members. Corporate Partners will propose the first round of projects in the coming two weeks, which will then be consolidated by the standing committee. Work on CPB projects is slated to start in March; with a first results presentation planned for October 2014.
“I am delighted that more than a dozen multi-national companies have agreed to become founding members of ITF's Corporate Partnership Board,” said José Viegas, secretary general of the ITF. “I laud their entrepreneurial spirit and look forward to working with them. The corporate world is at the frontier of new developments in the transport sector, and the Corporate Partnership Board will help the ITF to integrate the cutting-edge perspective of business into our analysis even better and provide relevant evidence-based advice to policy makers.”
“The CPB represents a very promising step forward in securing a confident dialogue between the public and private sector in the field of transport innovation. Tomorrow’s transport requires not only audacious technologies but also forward looking policies, worldwide”, declared Patrick Oliva, senior vice-president, Michelin.
The CPB is expected to grow from the initial twelve members to a maximum of 50 members over three years. It supersedes the ITF Advisory Board.
The next plenary meeting of the CPB will be held during the Annual Summit of Transport Ministers in Leipzig, Germany on 21-23 May 2014. For details of the Summit see <%$Linker:2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal www.internationaltransportforum.org/2014 visit: www.internationaltransportforum.org/2014 false http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/2014 false false %>
Twelve multi-national companies from seven countries met in Paris on Monday 20 January 2014 to inaugurate the Forum's new Corporate Partnership Board (CPB). The CPB will serve as the ITF's mechanism for including expert knowledge from corporations in transport and related areas for policy analysis.
The CPB's founding members are
The inaugural CPB meeting agreed on operating guidelines and created a standing committee to govern the board's tactical business under the chairmanship of the ITF Secretary-General.
CPB activities will comprise the launch of policy analysis projects, events and publications on the basis of an annual work plan that will be agreed by members. Corporate Partners will propose the first round of projects in the coming two weeks, which will then be consolidated by the standing committee. Work on CPB projects is slated to start in March; with a first results presentation planned for October 2014.
“I am delighted that more than a dozen multi-national companies have agreed to become founding members of ITF's Corporate Partnership Board,” said José Viegas, secretary general of the ITF. “I laud their entrepreneurial spirit and look forward to working with them. The corporate world is at the frontier of new developments in the transport sector, and the Corporate Partnership Board will help the ITF to integrate the cutting-edge perspective of business into our analysis even better and provide relevant evidence-based advice to policy makers.”
“The CPB represents a very promising step forward in securing a confident dialogue between the public and private sector in the field of transport innovation. Tomorrow’s transport requires not only audacious technologies but also forward looking policies, worldwide”, declared Patrick Oliva, senior vice-president, Michelin.
The CPB is expected to grow from the initial twelve members to a maximum of 50 members over three years. It supersedes the ITF Advisory Board.
The next plenary meeting of the CPB will be held during the Annual Summit of Transport Ministers in Leipzig, Germany on 21-23 May 2014. For details of the Summit see <%$Linker:
