Member Benefits
Networking is undoubtedly one of the IRF's key services. Enabling people from all sections of the road industry to come together to address challenges in different parts of the world is crucial. But beyond this the IRF offers its members a range of other services to help them do better business worldwide.
Benefits of joining IRF:
Networking
IRF members make high-level contacts and access privileged information on important markets. Special business missions introduce members of the IRF to the political decision makers as well as important business partners establishing essential contacts.
Training Partnerships
The IRF has a number of personalized training programmes for its members. The IRF provides members with a unique opportunity to provide specialized and custom-tailored training programs to clients around the world.
Have Your Voice Heard
IRF provides its members with opportunities to submit Op-Ed articles published in our official magazine, work on developing IRF White Papers, serve on various committees and working groups - all designed to provide the road-development industry with a broad perspective of thoughts from the stakeholders.
Exclusive Advertising Opportunities
The International Road Federation offers a wide variety of advertising and sponsorship opportunities. With the vast reach of the IRF publications, products & services guide, magazine, directories, website, newsletters, conferences and seminars, your company will gain maximum exposure to top-level road officials and high-level executives. Only IRF members advertise their products and services in IRF's Who's Who Directory, World Road Statistics, and IRF Bulletin. These publications are distributed world-wide to members and stakeholders. As an IRF member you get 10% savings on advertising in World Highways - with the world's largest qualified magazine serving the global road sector.
Preferred Member Rates
A broad range of conferences and seminars organised by the IRF bring together all parties involved in road development and offer promotional possibilities at reduced rates for IRF members.IRF members receive discounted rates for attendance of IRF World Meetings and regional conferences, seminars, business development missions, on-line training, executive seminars, IRF training videos.
Fully-Funded Fellowships
For five decades, the IRF has been awarding educational grants for graduate-level study in transportation-related curricula. The IRF Fellowship Program has graduated 1,264 students from 110 countries, who have attended 88 universities in 13 countries. IRF members have a unique opportunity to be a part of this one-of-a-kind program by funding a Fellowship named after their organization.
International Competition of Road Development Projects
The IRF's Global Road Achievement Awards program is a competition to honor and recognize IRF members that demonstrate excellence and innovation in road development worldwide. The program is designed to elicit information on successful projects and programs from leading industry organizations and highlight those efforts. Winners are profiled in IRF's Book of Winning Projects and World Highways.
Lobbying
The IRF is active in promoting road industry interests at national and international events and conferences, particularly those relating to transport issues in countries in economic transition.
Position Papers
Resulting from working groups on matters such as road safety and infrastructure charging, the IRF produces position papers which reach decision-makers at European and international levels.
Advisory Services
Specialist advisory services offered by the IRF provide expertise to governments and national road administrations and represent the voice of IRF members in road policy formulation.
Executive Seminars
IRF's Executive Seminars are specifically targeted at road professionals from developing countries or countries in economic transition seeking to adopt a business approach to their road-related activities. These seminars help participants to apply management techniques and expertise of the road sector. Conducted with the participation of experts from the IRF membership, the seminars are supported by the World Bank.
Influence your business environment
The IRF has a number of working groups developing strategy and policy on road financing, road safety and the environment. Members of these working groups are recognised as specialists in their respective field. The conclusions and recommendations of the working groups are widely distributed.
World Road Statistics
For more than 40 years the IRF has been publishing the most complete compilation of worldwide data on road infrastructure. Widely recognised by the World Bank and other leading agencies, this publication is free for IRF members.
IRF Awards
IRF Awards are highly published and provide a special promotion to a service or a product of its members.
IRF Man of the Year. Established in 1951, the IRF Man of the Year Award honours leaders in the road-development community who have demonstrated a profound dedication to the advancement of the world's roads.
IRF Global Road Achievement Awards is an annual competition to honor and recognize road-industry projects that demonstrate excellence and innovation in road development worldwide. The program, which is designed to elicit information on successful projects and programs from leading industry organizations, will draw attention to these leading projects and organizations, providing a road map for others to follow in continuously improving and advancing road development worldwide.
Dr. Mino Award of Excellence The Award, bestowed every four years at the IRF World Meeting, was developed to recognize and honour outstanding graduates of the IRF Fellowship Program who have leveraged their educational experience to make outstanding achievements in roadway development and planning around the world.