Project Summary
This project develops a methodology and tool to track and understand the impact of carbon reducing policies within transport.
Project Achievements
The project developed a methodology and tool to track and understand the impact of carbon reducing policies within transport. Similar methodologies have been shown to have a significant impact on decarbonisation strategies within the energy sector. Working with a range of users including Somerset County Council, the team developed and implemented a live version of the decarbonisation tool that can be accessed by Local Authority users to support the development and testing of decarbonisation strategies.
Conclusions
The project developed a highly flexible methodology and web-based tool linked to national datasets to help Local Authorities develop and evidence strategies for transport decarbonisation. The tool can also be used to engage and inform stakeholders raising awareness around the benefits and costs of different approaches to decarbonisation. The prototype tool has been tested with a number of users and has received positive feedback and identified a series of future enhancements that would provide further benefits.
The UK can become a leader in healthy, sustainable and clean transport. This tool can be used today to help develop place-based strategies for transport decarbonisation. With further funding the tool could be further enhanced to provide tracking and sharing of strategies between regions, helping to coordinate the UK’s decarbonisation activities.
