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Reduce environmental impacts

Questions in this group:

Reduce environmental impacts How can the vulnerability and role of habitats alongside transport infrastructure be better understood regarding climate change, pests, and disease? How can we increase resilience? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How could technology and data be better utilised to identify, classify and monitor biodiversity alongside transport infrastructure? What can asset managers in the transport sector learn from other sectors in this area. Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What is the role of roadway design and traffic management on local PM2.5 concentrations? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What are the most effective and equitable transport related actions that can be taken to reduce emissions of (and exposure to) transport related air pollution (from particulates and NOx) in vulnerable communities, while helping growth, access to jobs and accessibility in more deprived areas? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What evidence exists about the role of transport related air pollution (NOx and PM2.5) and social inequality in England, with consideration for social, economic, and geographic factors? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How can we best model and understand the impacts on a global level of environmental policy actions? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What are the interdependencies between addressing different environmental impacts (e.g., CO2 and noise)? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How will new and emerging aviation technology such as unmanned aircraft, advanced air mobility, provide environmental benefits or disbenefits and what environmental assessment techniques should be applied? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How are the local environmental impacts of aviation evolving through time (e.g., noise and air quality) and how can they best be mitigated? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What evidence exists to enable the DfT to further enhance its ability to forecast aviation GHG emissions and non-CO2 impacts and model the impact of potential policy action? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How can policy action best support decarbonisation of aviation? What is the most appropriate role for market-based measures compared to other policy measures? How should market based measures and other policy measures be designed to mitigate the risk of unintended consequences? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What are the relative merits of existing, emerging, and future technologies in helping to decarbonise aviation? What adaptations will be required for the aviation sector to successfully adopt new zero-emission technologies? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How can we develop a more detailed understanding of the benefits that modernising UK airspace will bring, including carbon reductions, noise impacts, reduced delays, increased resilience, and increased capacity to allow for growth? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What are the health impacts from aviation environmental emissions (e.g., noise and air quality)? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How are/should place-based programmes focus on improving active and sustainable travel infrastructure to improve town centres? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How are models of shared transport developing and evolving? What are the motivators for people to share transport? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What is the user experience of charging infrastructure (and how does this interact with the decision to opt for an EV)? What are the social and distributional issues around access to charging? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What are public expectations about changing costs and affordability of EVs relative to other cars and how are these changing over time? What are the social and distributional impacts around EV adoption? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts How do people think about their environmental transport footprint? Are their perceptions of carbon emissions for different journeys accurate? What role does local air quality play in sustainable transport perceptions? How can the provision of information/knowledge about the environmental impact of travel choices bring about behaviour change? Department for Transport, 2023

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Reduce environmental impacts What has the overall impact of Covid-19 been on sustainable travel behaviour? And what are the implications of more flexible/hybrid working and reduced commuting patterns; how can this work best for part-time commuters? Department for Transport, 2023

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