Transport Ministers from more than 60 countries have called for the creation of a new assessment framework to boost road safety practices throughout corporate value chains at the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany on May 23, 2024.
The Chairman’s declaration from a Ministerial meeting of the 69 member states of the International Transport Forum [ITF] – an intergovernmental organization for transport – calls on the private sector to apply the safe system principles of road safety across their value chains, as outlined in the Global Plan for the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030.
“The safe system puts people and safety at the core of our transport systems, and business has a huge role to play in…