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Since 2017, IMC Worldwide has been managing the five-year, DFID-funded High-Volume Transport (HVT) applied research programme which is focused on national and regional transport corridors and within cities in low-income countries in Africa and South Asia. A review of the literature and evidence available under four research areas has delivered a series of State of Knowledge papers which is due to be published in a special edition of the Sustainability Journal. Over the next 4 years, the HVT Programme Management Unit (PMU) will implement the Research Framework developed with the information and evidence derived from the State of Knowledge review. This includes procuring new primary research in priority areas, adapting existing knowledge from high- and middle-income countries to low-income countries, building capacity, and promoting uptake of research findings. The priority research areas include: • Climate change mitigation and adaption; • Inclusion, gender and road safety; • Policy and regulation (including engineering); • Technology and innovation (including data and decision support systems); and • Fragile and conflict-affected states. These areas will be studied across three types of transport: long distance strategic corridors for road and rail; urban transport; and low-carbon transport. The PMU will be sharing more information about procurement calls in due course. This flyer provides more information about the programme and how you can register for updates. http://www.imcworldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/HVT_v1E.pdf ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the UTSG list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=UTSG&A=1