Organized by the Global Partnership for Sustainable Transport (GPST), together with the International Road Transport Union (IRU), the UN Global Compact, and the Global Business Alliance for 2030, this event highlights the role of sustainable transport in advancing the SDGs.  Specifically, this event showcases the role of business and industry associations in the transportation sector in advancing key SDGs (i.e. infrastructure and urbanization), and discusses how to forge and foster multi-stakeholder partnerships in the transportation sector.  This event will also presents how the upcoming first UN Global Conference on Sustainable Transportation (to be held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in November 2016) will feature the role of private sector and multi-stakeholder partnerships.