As part of the WCTRS Virtual Meet 2022, Prof. Elbert and his team organized two sessions on “Climate Change – The role that freight transport can play to avoid emissions”.

The first session was organized in cooperation with the Transportation Research Board’s AT045 Intermodal Freight Transport Committee and highlighted different perspectives from Europe and North America. For both sessions we welcomed Prof. Thierry Vanelslander, who gave an interesting keynote on “How to decarbonize freight transport?”.

We then welcomed speakers from DB Cargo AG and TFG Transfracht GmbH, as well as from ICF and Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, who shared their professional perspectives on the topic. This was followed by a discussion identifying the most promising initiatives to reduce/avoid emissions in freight transport and an evaluation thereof.

The second session consolidated the results of the previous session and extended the view to Asia: after Prof. Vanelslander's keynote, we heard regional perspectives from Kazakhstan and China, and welcomed speakers from the Kazakh-German University as well as Flexport Asia and Maersk (China) Shipping Co, Ltd.. Additional initiatives were then identified and again evaluated.

For those who missed the successful and productive sessions, we have uploaded the video footage of Prof. Vanelslander's keynote as well as the presentations of the speakers from the industry and the results from both sessions here .

We are very happy about the frequent attendance at our sessions, about the active participation of the audience and the passion of the speakers. Thank you for making our Summer Sessions a success. See you next year at the WCTRS World Conference 2023 in Montréal!