MOBILIZING DEVELOPMENT

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative
GFEI is a partnership of the International Energy
Agency, the United Nations Environment
Programme, the International Transport Forum, the
International Council on Clean Transportation, the
Institute for Transportation Studies at University of
California - Davis, and the FIA Foundation, working
on improvements in vehicles’ fuel economy and
to maximize deployment of existing fuel economy
technologies in vehicles across the world.
thereby reducing overall congestion and emissions
while improving road safety. Data collected by the
U.S. Departments of Commerce and Transportation
showed that from 2007 - 2013 e-commerce doubled
with no net increase on urban truck traffic. 78
This not only benefits consumers, but facilitates
entrepreneurship in developing countries, where the
barrier to markets and capital are often higher for
small businesses.
ICT for consumer-directed deliveries, using real time
shipment status information and a portal for recipients
to manage the day, time window, and location for
delivery to reduce likelihood for missed deliveries.
Pursuit of a circular economy –recapturing raw
materials, refurbishing technology, preserving
and reusing energy used in manufacturing and
transport—to minimize waste.
For people movements (local and long distance), good
practices include:
The GFEI team assists governments and transport
stakeholders to promote greater fuel economy. It
establishes a baseline in participating countries;
presents policy options and case studies; and
enables all stakeholders to engage in the policy
process. Countries such as Kenya, Chile, Costa Rica,
Cote d’Ivoire and Indonesia are already taking part
in this policy development process. Kenya, for
example, adopted an age-based taxation scheme for
imported second-hand vehicles in September 2015
that will raise the tax for imported second-hand
vehicles older than 3 years by 150% and reduce tax to
30% for vehicles younger than 3 years.
Connected to Recommendations: 1 and 2
this context. In the case of global goods movements,
examples of good practice include:
Optimized networks and supply chains maximize
efficiency in global trade routes and reduce the
number of vehicles and trips necessary, balancing
demands for price, speed of delivery, and
environmental impact.
Urban logistics management with deliveries
coordinated out of a small number of warehouses
reduces the overall number of trucks and deliveries.
E-Commerce solutions as part of a larger retail sector
provide greater access to goods from around the
world and can reduce the number of individual trips,
Integrated ticketing, shared passenger information
and interchanges within and between modes
allowing fast, easy and seamless multimodal journeys.
Air Traffic Control (ATC) modernization: the
move to satellite-based navigation allows for
safer point-to-point flights and more efficient air
navigation procedures, such as continuous descent
approaches, which reduce flight time, carbon
emissions, and fuel costs.
‘Active Safety’ technology such as Intelligent Speed
Adaptation (ISA) of motorized vehicles can eliminate
speeding and avert millions of fatal collisions of cars
and pedestrians or cyclists in the coming decades.
Ride share and vehicle share, innovative business
models capitalizing on ICT including big data and
the explosion of connectivity among consumers,
as well as social trends and changing attitudes
toward ownership. ICT creates the opportunity also
for connected public transport systems including
“Mobility on Demand”.
In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
countries pledged to leave no one behind, and in the
area of technology, this means that governments,
private companies, academia and other stakeholders
will work to advance knowledge sharing, open data
sources and technical assistance to developing
countries. Capacity building and knowledge sharing
can be advanced including through test and
demonstration platforms.