Would you like to get involved with the next cycle (2016-2019) of the World Road Association?
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The 25th edition of the World Road Congress will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2-6 November 2015. Under the theme of ‘Roads and Mobility - Creating New Value from Transport’, this five-day event will bring together thousands of road and road transport stakeholders from around the world, including about 50 ministers or vice ministers and top leaders from public and private organizations. Dozens of sessions will allow participants to get a broad and global picture of the current situation of the road sector and its main challenges for the future. This is a significant event and acts as the handover to the next cycle for the Association….
The World Road Association is a non-profit association established more than 100 years ago to promote international cooperation on issues pertaining to roads and road transportation. It consists of a wide range of members from every part of the globe. The core members are road agencies representing over 120 countries.
The Association mobilizes the expertise its members to share and develop information for the benefit of the global transportation community, a mission that is grounded in the needs of member countries and supportive of larger trends in global society. It fulfils this mission through operations guided by a four-year Strategic Plan. The next plan, which covers the years 2016-2019, is the result of a deliberative process that included: (1) an assessment of the core mission of the Association; (2) an assessment of the external environment; and (3) consideration of key internal dynamics and member needs.
The substantive agenda for the four-year cycle will be organized into five strategic themes: Management and Finance; Access and Mobility; Safety; Infrastructure; and Climate Change, Environment and Disasters. These represent a continuation of several lines of traditional work within the Association, with an elevation of environment-related issues based on this emerging as a key concern within the membership.
Through Technical Committees, the Association will explore a range of issues within these themes. Some committees represent longer-term investments of attention, and will be called upon to look at their work as multi-cycle efforts. In addition, the Strategic Plan makes use of several Task Forces, with more time limited and smaller mandates to foster the exploration of critical issues. Regional Task Groups and Special Projects will complement the familiar structure, and enable the Association to engage external partners to develop meaningful products.
The 2016-2019 Strategic Plan continues a course of modernization for the organization, preserving the strengths of the traditional working methods that have served well for decades and introducing novel structures and processes to enable timely responses for the broadest possible segment of the membership. Woven into the production effort is a deliberate focus on communication. The results are expected to be a work cycle that enables the global road transportation sector to benefits from access to best practice, collaboration of experts to develop new knowledge in key areas, and confirmation of the World Road Association’s value as the leading forum for advancing road transportation issues globally.
Have a look at the Strategic Plan and think about what areas you might be interested in becoming a member of.
This will involve you or your organisation covering the costs for the travel and subsistence and more importantly,
committing your time and effort to deliver the work required over the next cycle. If you want to find out more, ask questions, or just register your interest then do get in contact.
If you are interested in becoming a TC representative could you let Justin Ward know which TC(s) you might be interested in by.....registering interest at this stage does not represent a commitment. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss this with someone, please contact Justin at justin.ward@ciht.org.uk
The payback for you and your organisation will be that you will be involved in a topic that has real relevance worldwide and have access to a network of colleagues internationally, many operating at a senior level within their organisation and all of whom also have an interest on the topic area.
A.1 Performance of Transport Administrations
A.2 Road Transport System Economics and Social Development A.3 Risk Management Task Forces:
TF A.1 Innovative Financing
TF A.2 Coordination between National and Sub-National authorities
B.1 Road Network Operations/Intelligent Transportation Systems
B.2 Winter Service
B.3 Sustainable Multimodality in Urban Areas B.4 Freight Task Force:
TF B.1 Road Design and Infrastructure for Innovative Transport Solutions
C.1 National Road Safety Policies and Programs
C.2 Design and Operations of Safer Road Infrastructure
Task Forces
TF1 Infrastructure Security
D.1 Asset Management
D.2 Pavements
D.3 Bridges
D.4 Rural Roads and Earthworks
D.5 Road Tunnels Operations
E.1 Adaptation Strategies/Resiliency
E.2 Environment Considerations in Road Projects and Operations
E.3 Disaster Management
Please note that the above call is for TC positions. Although the deadline has passed for positions of Chairs/Secretarities and/or Strategic Theme Co-ordinator you can still contact about this as your name will still be considered for being submitted to the Secretary General of the World Road Association.
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