Transforming Transportation 2014: Better Cities, Better Business
From left to right: Holger Dalkmann, EMBARQ Director; Michelle Yeoh, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Make Roads Safe Campaign and noted actress; and Jose Luis Irigoyen, Director for the Transport, Water, and Information and Communications Technologies Department in the Sustainable Development Network (SDN) of the World Bank. Dalkmann, Yeoh, and Irigoyen jointly delivered closing remarks at Transforming Transportation 2014 on January 17. Photo by Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ.
From left to right: Femi Oke, Al Jazeera; Hubert Julien-Laferrière, Deputy Mayor, City of Lyon, France; and Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, World Resources Institute. Oke moderated the opening plenary of Transforming Transportation 2014, "The Future We Want: A Conversation with City and Business Leaders," while Laferrière and Bapna served as panelists. Photo by Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ.
From left to right: Michael Replogle, Managing Director for Policy and Founder, Institute for Development and Transportation Policy (ITDP); Aymen Ali, Principal Transport Engineer, African Development Bank (AfDB); and Kitty van der Heijden, Europe Director, World Resources Institute. Replogle, Ali, and van der Heijden served as panelists for Transforming Transportation 2014's closing plenary, "Sustainable Development Goals and Transport: A Coalition for Change." Photo by Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ.
From left to right: Federico Fernández Alonso, Deputy Director of Mobility Management, Spanish Traffic Department; Karla Gonzalez Carvajal, Transport Sector Manager, South Asia, The World Bank; Mary Crass, Head of Policy and Summit Preparation, International Transport Forum; Jean Todt, President, International Automobile Federation; and Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, India. Gonzalez Carvajal moderated the "Safer by Design: How Traffic Safety is Better for People and Business” plenary on Day 2 of Transforming Transportation 2014, while Alonso, Crass, Todt, and Krishna served as panelists. Photo by Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ.
Packed Preston Auditorium at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. during the "Managing Governance: Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Transport" plenary on Day 1 of Transforming Transportation 2014. The session discussed the various challenges that arise when centralizing urban transport management. To learn more, see TheCityFix's live coverage of the event. Photo by Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ.
Audience members look on at Transforming Transportation 2014. Over 700 participants convened on-site at the World Bank headquarters for this year's conference. Photo by Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ.
A participant of Transforming Transportation 2014 (#TTDC14) checks his mobile phone after picking up a copy of an Issue Brief published recently by EMBARQ, "Saving Lives with Sustainable Transport." #TTDC14 generated a record level of social media activity - 3,000 tweets from 341 locations worldwide, including Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, and Nigeria - totaling a potential reach of 14 million people. Photo by Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ.
EMBARQ staff member Vineet John (right) assists a participant with registration on Day 1 of Transforming Transportation 2014. The two-day event took place at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. on January 16 and 17, 2014. Photo by Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ.
Transforming Transportation 2014 (#TTDC14), co-organized by EMBARQ and the World Bank with the support of a team of partner organizations, took place at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. on January 16 and 17, 2014. The event convened business leaders, policymakers, and city and transport officials to discuss how the business and transport sectors can work together to improve the world’s cities. While over 700 attendees gathered on-site to hear from 90 speakers hailing from four continents, thousands more watched a live stream online - making this year's audience the largest in the history of Transforming Transportation. All photos credit Aaron Minnick/EMBARQ. For more information, visit http://transformingtransportation.org/.