How can we encourage more sustainable travel behaviours?
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
Next steps
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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 changing travel behavior to increase the use of lower carbon transport, which aligns with the goal of encouraging more sustainable travel behaviors.
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SANDPIT - Disruption: the raw material for low carbon change
Evidence suggests that we will need to change our travel habits and practices radically if we are to reduce the carbon emissions from transport to meet government and international targets. Technological developments suc...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores how disruptions in everyday life can lead to more permanent carbon-reducing changes in travel practices, which is relevant to encouraging sustainable travel behaviors.
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ADAPT fellowship: smart approaches to influencing sustainable behaviour change
This EPSRC/LWEC Challenge Fellowship addresses the question "How can our cities, their hinterlands, linking infrastructure, rural surround and the regions they are in, be transformed to be resilient, sustainable, mo...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the question of how to influence people to take voluntary action for mitigating and adapting to environmental change, which is partially relevant to encouraging sustainable travel behaviors.