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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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The mission of RefMap is to develop a digital service aimed at quantifying the environmental footprints of air mobility for airliners and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at a "multi-scale" level, where single-t...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD
The project is developing a digital service to quantify the environmental footprints of air mobility, including unmanned aircraft systems, and is investigating how the availability of environmental data will affect aviation business models, which aligns with the question's focus on new aviation technology and environmental assessment techniques.
Aviation sector faces many challenges such as achieving technological breakthroughs, reducing its environmental impact and increasing the sector’s workforce skills while complying with new EU policies and priorities such...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
The project is developing a roadmap for aviation research and innovation with a focus on environmental aspects, which partially answers the question about environmental assessment techniques, but does not specifically address new and emerging aviation technology.
Achieving the goals of climate neutrality by reducing the impact of aviation is a task that requires a carefully drafted roadmap for the development of disruptive technologies and concepts of operations. With particular ...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
The project INDIGO aims at identifying the margins of improvement in airport local air quality and noise resulting from the introduction of new non-conventional aircraft technologies, which directly addresses the question on environmental benefits or disbenefits of emerging aviation technology.