This year's ITF Summit will be on Transport Resilience to Global Shocks and is under the ITF Presidency of Chile.
IRU Secretary General Umberto de Pretto will speak at these sessions:
- Ministers’ Roundtable (closed door) – Transport and climate change: Moving forward from COP29 (Wed 21 May, 15:30 – 17:00)
- Plenary – Workforce Resilience and Emergency Preparedness (Thu 22 May, 14:15 – 15:15)
IRU side event
IRU will also organise a side event on Monday 21 May, from 17:00 to 18:00, titled "A brave new world: Can transport be greener, more resilient and more competitive?"
Long the preserve of business, “competitiveness” is suddenly on the lips of many political leaders. What do these political winds mean for the transport sector? Is competition now trumping decarbonisation and international cooperation?
Most transport companies in most sectors live and die by being competitive. And they, in turn, make their own countries and regions more competitive.
But how important is being competitive to driving greener and more resilient transport networks and services more broadly? And if it is, how do we make it happen?
Economic and social, national and international, public and private: this side event will explore the role of competition in transport policy and practice, with insights from the micro company level to the macro public domain.