This paper by Professor David Begg and Claire Haigh sets out a proposal for a national road pricing scheme. It forms supplementary written evidence submitted by Greener Transport Solutions to the Transport Select Committee Inquiry into Zero Emissions Vehicles and Road Pricing. Road pricing is one of the best fiscal changes that any government could…
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This report by Claire Haigh examines what is needed to decarbonise our transport system. The climate crisis is already hitting worst case scenario levels that if left unchecked will lead to the collapse of entire ecosystems. Our thinking needs to change if we are to rise to the scale of the challenge. Transport is the…
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Write-up of the seventh PTRC Fireside Chat examining the transport implications of the pandemic by Professor Glenn Lyons Over 250 people gathered together for the eighth PTRC Fireside Chat on 25 February 2021. This was an opportunity to probe whether or not the adage ‘never let a good crisis go to waste’ would apply to the…
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Greener Transport Solutions welcomed the Transport Select Committee Inquiry into Zero Emissions Vehicles and Road Pricing for putting a spotlight on two key issues central to decarbonising transport: We need to accelerate the shift to zero emissions vehicles. At the same time, some form of road pricing will be essential. Firstly, to replace receipts from…
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Claire Haigh, Founder & CEO of Greener Transport Solutions, writes a monthly column for Passenger Transport magazine. You can read in this report 2020 issues, including: 27th November 2020: Electric Vehicles won’t be enough. Simply swapping petrol and diesel cars for electric ones won’t hit our decarbonisation targets. Mode shift has a crucial role to…
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In February 2020 Department for Transport (DfT) announced £5 billion of new funding for bus services and cycling. £2 billion has been allocated to active travel and £3 billion to bus travel. Of the £3 billion of new funding for buses, DfT has suggested an initial allocation of funding £1 billion to support investment in…
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David Bayliss, Stephen Glaister and Tony Travers address the problems of funding local transport infrastructure and transport services without making additional financial demands on central or local government. They propose the creation of regional, public interest transport funding bodies. Their income would be an allocation of the extra revenue from increasing the rate of road…
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Claire Haigh, Founder & CEO of Greener Transport Solutions, writes a monthly column for Passenger Transport magazine. You can read in this report 2019 issues, including: 13th December 2019: We must see this as an opportunity. Next year’s COP26 climate summit takes place in Glasgow. As the host nation we must keep our own house…
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Britons urged to “get the bus and talk more”, as new research reveals that more than one in 10 people feel lonely every day.
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The opportunity to maximise the economic and social benefits of public and private investment in new housing are being missed due to a disconnect between sustainable transport and the location of new developments. There is widespread consensus that as a country we need to build significantly more homes if we are going to address the…
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This paper by Professor David Begg discusses the challenges involved in implementing road pricing. The dilemma and the challenge we face in paying for roads is how to achieve the economic and environmental objective of ensuring that road users cover their external (social costs) while at the same time winning public and political acceptance. Economists believe…
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This report by Professor David Begg and Claire Haigh examines the unintended consequences of freezing fuel duty. Increasing costs for road users is politically difficult. This is one of the reasons why we have had eleven years where fuel duty has been frozen at a time of historically low oil prices. While the freeze has…
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