Acknowledgements
This publication was prepared under the leadership of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) – and contains sector specific contributions prepared by the International Road Transport Union(IRU) and the International Union of Railways (UIC). The study was prepared by a team comprising of UN, IRU and UIC staff and other partners that contributed to the study, provided comments and delivered representative case studies. Among the major contributors and authors are Prof. A. F. Velegrakis (University of the Aegean, Greece) and Nikola Sahovic (University of Coimbra, Portugal). The authors and the team worked under the guidance of and benefited from significant contributions by Eva Molnar, Director of UNECE Sustainable Transport Division, Miodrag Pesut, Chief of Transport Facilitation and Economics Section, and George Georgiadis, Secretary of the Inland Transport Committee. For their invaluable contributions and comments, the team thanks Stephen N. Karingi and Tama R. Lisinge (UNECA), Francesco Dionori, Olivier Kervella, Victoria Ivanova, Nenad Nikolic, Walter Nissler and Christopher Smith (UNECE), Azhar Jaimurzina and Ricardo Sanchez (UNECLAC), Yuwei Li and Thanattaporn Rasamit (UNESCAP), Adel Al-Ghaberi (UNESCWA), Jens Hugel and Umberto de Pretto (IRU) and Andrea Braschi, Nicholas Craven, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux and Vincent Vu (UIC). In addition, the team would like to express gratitude to all colleagues who contributed inputs and provided advice and support during the course of preparation this publication and particularly to the editors Violet Yee and Bentley Jensen and the team assistant, Anastasia Barinova (UNECE).
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