Transport is a strategic priority for all countries. It is essential to their economic viability and represents a large investment that has a long term benefit. Society must reconcile economic benefits and demands with the environmental and social impact they produce. Therefore, ensuring that mobility is sustainable has become one of the main goals of road and road transport authorities.

Ministers from all around the world were invited to share their point of view and explain the current challenges facing their countries and the solutions they are implementing.

This session was chaired by Dionisio Pérez-Jácome Friscione, Mexico's Secretary of State Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes

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The moderator of this session was Pedro Ferriz de Con, Journalist and producer of newscasts

This DVD includes a video of the introductory speech to the panel discussion and of the three first minutes of the intervention of each Minister. However the full text of each intervention is available in a PDF file corresponding to the transcript provided by the Mexican Organizing Committee.

The session was divided into three panel discussions:

 Financial solutions that bring together transport policy with environmental problems without overlooking equal social rights and quality of life. Equal opportunity access for basic services. Private sources to finance construction, operation and maintenance of roads. Tax policy, road pricing, user charges and intermodal transport as an option for cost reduction.

This panel was introduced by José Luis Irigoyen, Director of the Department of Transport, Water and Communications Technology of the World Bank

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 Sustainable development concepts in developed countries compared to transitional and developing countries. Measures to decrease climate change impact - both mitigation and adaptation. Land use planning and urban effects. Reducing high energy use/costs and demand worldwide. Alternative, decarbonised transport futures. Citizen consultation as a means of decision-making. Urban transport sustainable plans in large cities.

This panel was introduced by Carole Coune, Secretary General of the International Transport Forum of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

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Accident reduction measures, regulation and road safety auditing. Risk management and disaster mitigation. Funding for research and technology innovation, participation of private institutions. Intelligent transport systems (ITS). Road safety education, social costs of accidents.

This panel was introduced by Anne-Marie Leclerc, President of the World Road Association

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