Abstract:

The recent adoption of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change have set clearer long-term goals for transport sector. However, the announced initiatives alone will not be sufficient to sustain the degree of global changes that will be required before 2030 and beyond. This report describes a course of immediate bold and ambitious action that will kickstart the transformation of the transport sector in the desired roadmap directions, and limit the lock-in effects of a high-carbon business-as-usual (BAU) scenario. A list of 20 transport quick win actions have been proposed in this report intended to provide a broad and flexible set of actions to meet the needs of varied stakeholders. This include fuel quality standards, phasing-out of fossil fuel subsidies, transport sharing systems in cities, freight recognition schemes, use of ICT applications for real-time travel information and many more for implementation at scale which cohere with the global roadmap. These quick wins have been selected through input from a broad set of transport experts and other stakeholders, and have been evaluated through multifaceted impact analysis.