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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

For Future Inland Transport Systems (ForFITS)

    Description
    Description
    ForFITS allows the analysis of the evolution of transport activity, energy use and CO2 emissions in a range of policy contexts. Using ForFITS, transport stakeholders can better grasp the impact of drivers such as economic development; demographic evolution (including urbanization); energy price development; technology availability and cost. The tool considers the effect of policy instruments such as taxation and subsidies on vehicles, fuel, and road use; structural changes in passenger freight transport. ForFITS has the potential to allow policymakers and transport stakeholders to understand transport development patterns, enabling them to take decisions that can contribute to Rio+20 sustainable development goals.
    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    ForFITS leverages on the feedback received in a multi-stakeholder workshop analyzing different methodological options and builds on a review on statistics, mitigation polices, and similar modelling tools. It will be released on-line for free, jointly with a user-manual that will be translated in the five UN languages. An awareness raising process and capacity building workshops will be carried out in cooperation with the other UN Regional Commissions. The project aims to involve partners like national administrations, regional and city authorities, NGOs, statistical offices, research and academic institutions. Capacity-building workshop and training sessions will allow using and piloting the tool in specific case studies. The result of the analytical use of the tool will assist decision-makers in the choice and implementation of transport, mobility, energy and carbon-mitigation policies and plans.

    Partners
    United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) that services the Inland Transport Committee
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    Development of the modeling tool
    Capacity-building workshops in each UN region
    Training session for an administrative entity in each region
    Staff / Technical expertise
    Transport Policy Dialogue based on the ForFITS model, Development of the modelling tool, Capacity-building workshops and training sessions
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    Action Network
    Rio+20
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    Timeline
    01 January 2020 (date of completion)
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    Geographical coverage
    Global
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    Contact Information

    Miquel Gangonells Creus