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:
This Fellowship will help resolve ongoing conflicts between two national priorities: the need for new infrastructure, and the safeguarding of protected species and their habitats. Improving national infrastructure is one...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Sussex
The project partially answers the question by helping practitioners and decision makers understand and mitigate the impacts of major infrastructure developments on protected wildlife and habitats, but it does not specifically address the impacts on cultural heritage sites, local residents' well-being, and local biodiversity.
Highways England is working towards developing the Strategic Road Network (SRN) to have minimal air pollution impact on neighbouring communities. The ADMS-Roads air quality modelling software tool is key to this goal bec...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: CAMBRIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CONSULTANTS LIMITED
The project partially answers the question by developing a tool to assess the air quality impacts of elevated roads, but it does not specifically address the impacts on cultural heritage sites, local residents' well-being, and local biodiversity.
The overarching aim of this Innovation Placement at Transport for London (TfL) is to establish its first evidence-based approach to the use of strategic green infrastructure (GI) to improve roadside air quality (RAQ). Tf...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham
The project partially answers the question by establishing an evidence-based approach to strategic green infrastructure for improved roadside air quality, but it does not specifically address the impacts on cultural heritage sites, local residents' well-being, and local biodiversity.