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This Staff working paper explores potential synergies in deploying fiber optic cables for data transmission and other infrastructures, chiefly transport and energy. It provides information on the cost of deploying fibre optics, exploring potential win-win strategies in the co-deployment and cohabitation of fibre and transport infrastructure and drawing lessons from good practices in the Asia- Pacific region and beyond. It contains a set of key policy measures to maximize win-win outcomes, which include synergies with the Asian Highway and Trans-Asian Railway. It also contains an examination of the potential of ICTs in making sustainable transport a transformative building block of sustainable development. Safer, more secure and efficient transport through the emergence of socalled intelligent transport systems is expected to play a key role in the evolution of sustainable development goals. The paper highlights major areas of work for policymakers measures on how to maximise these cross-sectoral synergies.

This Staff working paper explores potential synergies in deploying fiber optic cables for data transmission and other infrastructures, chiefly transport and energy. It provides information on the cost of deploying fibre optics, exploring potential win-win strategies in the co-deployment and cohabitation of fibre and transport infrastructure and drawing lessons from good practices in the Asia- Pacific region and beyond. It contains a set of key policy measures to maximize win-win outcomes, which include synergies with the Asian Highway and Trans-Asian Railway. It also contains an examination of the potential of ICTs in making sustainable transport a transformative building block
of sustainable development. Safer, more secure and efficient transport through the emergence of socalled intelligent transport systems is expected to play a key role in the evolution of sustainable development goals. The paper highlights major areas of work for policymakers measures on how to maximise these cross-sectoral synergies.

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