Philipp Rode and Catarina Heeckt will launch their new paper ‘National Transport Policy and Cities: Key policy interventions to drive compact and connected urban growth’ at the International Transport Forum (ITF) Summit in Leipzig, Germany. The launch event will take place at the ITF World Stage Café starting at 9:30 on Thursday, 23 May 2019.
The paper is part of LSE Cities’ contribution to the Coalition for Urban Transitions and provides a foundation for national transport policy-makers to begin pragmatic but ambitious conversations about actions they can take to make cities more accessible – either by leapfrogging car-centric development pathways, or by transitioning towards a more compact and connected future. It provides a global review of 189 national transport interventions and then presents results from a survey of experts that narrows down the top five most impactful policy interventions.
Prior to the official launch event, Catarina Heeckt will be presenting the research findings at the ITF Pre-Summit Research Day on Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 11:40 during a panel discussion on ‘Sustainable Transport Solutions’.
As part of the ITF Summit, Philipp Rode will also speak on a panel entitled ‘Improving access in cities: Findings from Europe and Latin America’ which will take place at 9:30 on Friday, 24 May 2019.