Resilient connectivity: Minimising the impact of network disruptions
Panel Session
This session examines best practices and innovations to improve the resilience of multimodal transport networks. It will also discuss ways of enhancing connectivity in the face of efficiency and sustainability challenges. Ensuring that transport networks are resilient to disruption is high on policy agendas around the world. It is important to balance transport network efficiency and resilient connectivity. The latter stimulates regional integration, reduces trade costs and increases trade volumes, thereby promoting economic growth, social integration, and development. This task is challenging due to growing global trade flows, sustainability requirements, and risks such as political instability, cyber-crimes and climate change. Innovation in technology, including in IT and physical hardware, may influence both operational efficiency and resilience of the network. To recover from disruption and to implement efficient solutions, all stakeholders must work together.
Key facts:
- The World Bank estimates a USD 8 trillion infrastructure investment gap in roads by 2040, which represents more than half of the total global infrastructure investment gap.
- 75% of companies worldwide experience one major supply chain disruption per year according to a report by consultancy PwC.
- The number of cyber-attacks on transport control systems in the United States more than quadrupled from 2012 to 2015 according to the U.S. National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.
Lead questions:
- What are effective strategies and trade-offs for increasing transport networks’ resilience and maintaining efficiency?
- How can built-in redundancy, enhanced management capacity and preparedness contribute to resilient transport networks? How can international cooperation and contingency planning enable this?
- What are the technological innovations (e.g. blockchain, 3D printing, automation of vehicles and terminals) or the new business models that can help increase transport network resilience and enhance connectivity? How could governments stimulate the development and adoption of such innovations?
Background reading:
- ITF Collaboration in Supply Chain Management: A Resilience Perspective. Discussion Paper, 25 October 2018. Available online on: https://www.itf-oecd.org/collaboration-supply-chain-management-resilience-perspective-0
- Reggiani, Aura, Peter Nijkamp, and Diego Lanzi. "Transport resilience and vulnerability: the role of connectivity." Transportation research part A: policy and practice 81 (2015): 4-15.
Juliette Foster
Juliette Foster is an award-winning broadcaster and businesswoman. She has worked for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and has anchored flagship programmes at Bloomberg Television, Sky News and BBC World Service Television.
Giampaolo Botta
Mr Giampaolo Botta, 47 age, is the General Manager of Spediporto, the leading maritime forwarders association in Italy, it also represents couriers and truck drivers of Genoa. He is a member of Confetra, the main Italian logistics confederation; Sea Working Group of FIATA (International Federation of Forwarders); Committee for impartiality and protection of RINA; member of the mixed commission for the port and customs of the port of Genoa. He is also a member of the board of directors in various logistics and ICT Italian companies.
Philippe Villard
Philippe Villard has been Airports Council International (ACI) World’s Head, Policy and Economics since February 2017. His main responsibilities include developing airport economic policies; airport charges and aeronautical business development; and airport slots and capacity policies. Prior to joining ACI, Philippe held positions with increasing responsibilities in air transport economic policy development, and airport user charges and aeronautical revenues at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA). He holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, France, and a PhD in Political Science from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
Supee Teravaninthorn
Hongjoo Hahm
Hongjoo Hahm joined ESCAP in January 2016 as the Deputy Executive Secretary for Programmes. He served as Acting Executive Secretary from May to December 2018. Prior, he worked at the World Bank in various positions - as Senior Advisor to the Water Global Practice Group; Country Manager for the Balkans; Head of the Infrastructure Unit in the World Bank Office in Jakarta (transport, energy, urban, and water and sanitation sectors); and Program Manager for the post-tsunami reconstruction of Aceh, post-earthquake Yogyakarta, and flood mitigation in Jakarta. Hongjoo Hahm worked at Goldman Sachs LLC as the Global Head for Central Banks, Official Institutions and Sovereign Wealth Funds for five years. He also worked at the Asian Development Bank, the Korea Development Institute, and taught economics at New York University, Queens College, and the City University of New York.
Hongjoo Hahm graduated from Cairo American College, received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary; M.Phil from the London School of Economics; and Ph.D. from New York University. He has an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School and a diploma from the Cambridge University Programme for Sustainable Development. He also graduated from Korea’s Third Military Academy and was commissioned as an officer in the Korean Army.