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:
NASA identified automobiles to be the largest net contributors to global warming (Carbon Action, 2014). Currently there are an estimated 1bn vehicles on the road worldwide, expected to rise to 1.7bn by 2035 (Ward Journ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: AUTOTRIP LIMITED
The project partially answers the question as it focuses on the environmental reporting regulations for commercial vehicles, which is related to the reducing environmental impacts strategic priority mentioned in the context. The authors have the necessary expertise in automated business mileage and carbon reporting.
"In 2016 the UK road freight industry spent £5.4 billion on fuel and released around 18.7 million tonnes carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. By improving vehicle efficiency there is significant scope to reduce...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: DYNAMON LTD
The project partially answers the question as it focuses on generating fleet efficiency recommendations from telematics data, which can contribute to reducing emissions and improving vehicle efficiency. The authors have the necessary expertise in big data analytics and transport efficiency.
Efforts to reduce the emissions from car travel have been hampered by a lack of specific information on car ownership and use. In 2010, the Department for Transport released a dataset containing annual MOT test records f...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The project partially answers the question as it aims to analyze car ownership and use data to understand the relationships between car use, fuel use, and vehicle emissions. The authors have the necessary expertise in spatial statistics and regression modeling.