What are the key behavioural influences (either drivers or barriers) on active travel?
Background
The reducing environmental impacts strategic priority is in recognition that there is an environmental aspect to all transport, and therefore almost all the work of DfT. Transport is the largest emitting sector of greenhouse gases in the UK, contributing 27% of domestic emissions in 2019. Our transport system must change to deliver the government’s Net Zero ambition and DfT will drive forwards that change through our longer-term green transport agenda. On decarbonisation specifically, we published our Transport decarbonisation plan (TDP) in July 2021, which sets out the steps we will take to deliver the necessary carbon reductions across every form of transport. Sustainability will be at the heart of levelling-up. People everywhere will feel the benefits – villages, towns, cities, and countryside will be cleaner, greener, healthier and more prosperous and pleasant environments in which to live and work
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Sandpit: Transport Behaviours Network.
This Network extends the December 2010, UK Research Councils Ideas Factory "Transport Grand Challenge: Travel behaviour, habits and practice". The Ideas Factory drew attention to the significant contribution th...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on understanding the determinants and incentives for changing travel behavior, which is directly relevant to the question.
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Providing insights into multi-day traveller behaviour to inform sustainable transport policies and practices
A good understanding of traveller behaviour underpins all policies which are effective in influencing travel behaviour to reduce congestion, increase activity levels, improve air quality and/or reduce carbon emissions. I...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project provides insights into multi-day traveler behavior, which is partially relevant to the question.
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UPBEAT: User-centred Pro-active Behavioural Economics Acting on Travel
Our excessive dependence on motorised road transport imposes significant economic costs on society, such as congestion, pollution and physical inactivity and the ill health caused by it. UPBEAT is an app designed to comb...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project UPBEAT focuses on behavioural influences on active travel through personalized feedback and incentives.