Public Policy for the Digital Transformation of Transportation 1st edition

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COURSE TYPE

SELF-PACED

SESSION

Mar 24, 2025 - Jun 22, 2025

ALSO OFFERED

2025

COST

GRATIS

LANGUAGE

English

TIME COMMITMENT

7 hours

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This training space offers a way to learn how current technological trends apply in the transportation sector, drawing from international benchmarks of best practices and reviewing the benefits that are evident for users, the public sector, and other stakeholders identified as international or regional leaders in transportation services.
The course highlights examples and success stories across various sub-sectors: air, maritime, land, and logistics. Additionally, it provides the opportunity to assess the current state of your context and identify potential courses of action for managing digital transformation processes by public administration. Tools for defining resilient public policies in a framework of uncertainty and irreversible technological trends are also reviewed

AUDIENCE OF THE COURSE

The course is ideally suited for officials from ministries of transport, customs, planning agencies, regulatory bodies, and transport secretariats. It is also open to professionals in public or private transportation services who are interested in initiating or promoting digital transformation projects within the transport sector.

COST & REIMBURSEMENTS

The course is offered free of charge by the IDB Group.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Module 1. Introduction to Digital Transformation

1. Identify the technologies that are transforming the transportation sector. 2. Distinguish the most common applications of digital transformation across transportation subsectors. 3. Recognize digital transformation as a response to current challenges in the transportation sector.

Module 2. Opportunities and Challenges of Digital Transformation

1. Identify success stories and best practices in digitalization of transportation. 2. Associate digital transformation technologies with competitive strategies of transportation companies. 3. Recognize digitization as a tool for optimizing transport operations. 4. Recognize the risks of cybersecurity, interoperability, vendor lock-in, privacy, exclusion, and social conflict, when implementing digital transformation in transportation.

Module 3. International Benchmarks for the Transformation of the Sector

1. Recognize the gaps between the regional context and the leading peers in digital transformation of the transportation sector. 2. Identify the differences between the public and private sector, in terms of the advances of digital transformation in transportation. 3. Recognize the importance of public policy actions to accelerate the benefits of digital transformation. 4. Distinguish various instruments for the definition of public policies in a framework of uncertainty in the digital transformation of transport.

Module 4. Self-Assessment and Roadmap for Digital Transformation

1. Self-assess the state of transformation of the transport sector in one's own context. 2. Examine the structure and key elements of a roadmap proposed for the digital transformation of the transportation sector. 3. Map out plans, agendas, support and regulatory frameworks, that impact the digital transformation of the region's transportation sector.