International Road Federation - IRF
IRF Committees 2026 - 2028
The International Road Federation (IRF) - Official Account is pleased to introduce its Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs for 2026–2028.
For the IRF Connected and Autonomous Mobility Committee, we hav...
We’re excited to announce that the IRF Annual Conference 2026 will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 16–18 November 2026.
Join global leaders, innovators, and experts as we shape the future o...
Interview with Fabian Zitzmann, Managing Partner from ecopals.
Last 4 December, during the IRF 2025 Annual Conference, ecopals was named the winner for IRF Start-Up Label 2025. We caught up with t...
Interview with Fabian Zitzmann, Managing Partner from ecopals.
Last 4 December, during the IRF 2025 Annual Conference, ecopals was named the winner for IRF Start-Up Label 2025. We caught up with t...
IRF Director General Gonzalo Alcaraz’s intervention during the launch of the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport at the UN Headquarters in New York last 10 December.
"Roads are the arteries of glo...
l Policy Segment Inland Transport Committee, 18 February.
"In today’s context, infrastructure, data and digitalisation must be treated as one. Roads are no longer static assets. They are performan...
The International Road Federation (IRF), together with a coalition of global partners, today announced a commitment to the United Nations (UN) Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026–2035)aimed at ac...
We’re excited to announce that the IRF Annual Conference 2026 will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 16–18 November 2026.
Join global leaders, innovators, and experts as we shape the future ...
The closing session will zoom out from the detailed discussions of the past days to bring all themes together into a bigger sustainability story for roads. The session will ask: What do we do with ...
The road value chain spans the full lifecycle of road infrastructure, encompassing planning and design, financing and procurement, construction and materials, operation and maintenance, logistics a...
Digitalisation is reshaping how roads are built, managed, and used — opening the way for vehicles, infrastructure, and people to be seamlessly connected. From vehicle-to everything (V2X) communicat...
Cities depend on roads to keep people and goods moving, but rapid urbanisation has stretched many networks to their limits. Smarter urban road mobility is about designing systems that manage demand...
Roads are expected to keep communities and economies connected no matter what disruptions come their way — from floods and heatwaves to traffic surges, funding shortfalls, or sudden operational sho...
The Young Professionals Summit serves as a dynamic platform to connect emerging leaders in the transport and road sectors with IRF's global community of road actors. It will highlight the crucial r...
Roads are at the heart of one of the most pressing public health challenges of our time. Each year, road traffic crashes claim over 1.2 million lives and injure millions more, disproportionately af...
This session sets the tone for the Conference by highlighting how road infrastructure can be a driver of equity and inclusion—enabling access to education, healthcare, livelihoods, and social parti...
As the backbone of global mobility, roads connect people, economies and opportunities. Yet the road sector now stands at a pivotal moment where the choices made today will determine whether transpo...
"From the 2nd to the 4th of December, the Annual Conference will connect participants across time zones to explore solutions for the mobility and transport sectors. It will provide opportunities fo...
“With the first UN Decade of Sustainable Transport starting in 2026, this conference also offers a vital opportunity to set the stage and demonstrate how our sector can make a meaningful contributi...
The latest IRF World Road Statistics (WRS) edition of 2025 (covering data for the years 2018 to 2023) includes up-to-date information for more than 200 countries and 200+ indicators. Thanks to the ...