What is the relative effectiveness of different incentives to promote 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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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Zero Carbon Mobility Exchange
**PROJECT CONCEPT:** Influencing positive travel behaviours to help decarbonise while providing an enhanced user exprience will be essential to enabling a shift to more sustainable, low carbon modes. With traffic back to...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on incentivizing sustainable modes of transport to help decarbonize, aligning with the question's goal of evaluating different incentives for active travel.
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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 relevant to promoting active travel but does not directly answer 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 examines traveler behavior to inform sustainable transport policies, which is partially relevant to promoting active travel but does not directly answer the question.