Transporte

The Americas Transportation Summit was hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C., with the Ministers of Transportation from Latin America and the Caribbean countries and the United States Secretary of Transportation, Elaine L. Chao. The Americas Transportation Summit engaged both the public and private sectors in exploring innovative practices to advance competitive, safe, and secure transportation services. The summit gathered high-level government delegations, senior industry stakeholders and academia to debate common transportation challenges in the Americas. Furthermore, it provided a forum for knowledge sharing, fostering different regional cooperation schemes that facilitate the incorporation of innovation and technology in the planning, implementation and operation of transportation services. A forward-thinking approach guided all the discussions, where the interactions of the policy makers with industry and academia experts generated different collaboration synergies to identify effective solutions to the most pressing transportation issues in the region. The Summit addressed three major challenges of the transport sector: 1. evolution of exponential technologies. 2. policies to encourage innovation. 3. innovative mechanisms to finance infrastructure.