MEDIA RELEASEParis, 15 November 2016

Toyota joins Corporate Partnership Board
World’s largest car manufacturer in 2015 to work with InternationalTransport Forum on important topics such as shared mobility anddecarbonising transport
Toyota Motor Corporation, the world’s biggest car manufacturer, has joined the CorporatePartnership Board (CPB) of the International Transport Forum (ITF). As part of its involvement,
Toyota will focus on projects around shared mobility and decarbonising transport.
The ITF is an intergovernmental organisation with 57 member countries that facilitates global
dialogue for better transport. It acts as a think tank for member governments and organises anannual summit of transport ministers. The CPB is the ITF’s platform for engaging with the private
sector and to enrich global transport policy discussion with a business perspective.
Toyota, based in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan, has been building cars since 1937. In the 2015 financialyear, the company sold almost 9 million vehicles, making it the world’s largest car manufacturer bysales. Toyota is also world market leader in hybrid electric vehicles, with more than 9 million units
sold as of April 2016. The company is famous for pioneering quality-focused manufacturing andjust-in-time production. Toyota is active in over 170 countries and in 2015 employed
350 000 people worldwide.
José Viegas, Secretary-General of ITF, welcomed Toyota to the CPB:
“Toyota is the embodiment of a great tradition imbued with the spirit of innovation. The company’s
success in bringing ground-breaking innovation like hybrid cars to market is admirable and rootedin Toyota’s constant drive to improve the way it delivers mobility for people around the world. I amvery pleased that this famous and important company will bring its knowledge and expertise to thework of the Corporate Partnership Board and to the global dialogue for better transport, which theInternational Transport Forum stands for.”The members of the ITF Corporate Partnership Board are: AB InBev, AeroMexico, Brisa, China
Communications Construction Company (CCCC), China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO Group),
ExxonMobil, Ford, Google, Here, IBM, Incheon International Airport, Inrix, Kapsch TrafficCom,Michelin, Nissan Motor Corporation, NXP, PTV Group, SNCF, Total, Toyota, Transdev, Uber, Venice
Port Authority and Volvo Group.

More information about the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board, including recent work on
autonomous driving, car sharing, big data and logistics performance is available at
http://www.itf-oecd.org/CPB

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