Regrettably this has been coming. More bad news for the climate strategy..
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I research into how transport policies are designed & implemented & the role of government and other actors in this. . Tweeting in a personal capacity
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How much storage do we need in a fully electrified future?
A policymaker and their advisor ask this question to a modeller, an #ElectricVehicles researcher and a social scientist
youtube.com/watch?v=ee0ek1
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Well, that should put an end to the controversy. Cue massive twitterstorm...
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Wow! Or maybe, what's new. Now around two hours between York, Leeds and Machester due to cancellations. Not a viable work option anymore. I feel even more for the folks in Redcar and Saltburn. Do you remember trains?
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The Department for Transport has now withdrawn its appeal against my Freedom of Information Request. If you want to see some of the assumptions around the upper and lower trajectories for decarbonisation then visit: whatdotheyknow.com/request/traffi
More difficult than it needed to be! RT
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But if that was the case then, if it were me, I'd release the data and dismiss this as a non-issue.
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If I am wrong (and many others who have done the maths ) and we can carry on planning for and encouraging car traffic like we used to before the carbon targets then I'll get back in my box.
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Please share this. We need transparency in our decarbonisation policies. Every year £billions of tax funding get spent on the transport system. We have to spend them on the right things
UK government blocks release of CO2 figures behind transport plan
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Really????? DfT appeals the Information Commissioner's demand to release information about the Transport Decarbonisation Plan. Read more here: decarbon8.org.uk/our-foi-reques Pls RT
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Listening to a set of summaries of some of the amazing Seedcorn projects which we funded through - thoroughly inspiring and underlines the importance of local design and ownership working together with national policy frameworks. Well done to for coordinating
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Hi all. If the twitter ship does sink you'll be able to find me on linkedin. Less funny as a platform, overpopulated with images of people at an event, but good content discussed in a fair and friendly manner.
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New study compares riding e-bikes and pedal bikes. Findings:
🔷 An e-bike requires 13% less energy
🔷 Both the e-bike and pedal bike provide "moderate intensity physical activity"
🔷 Most people prefer the e-bike
doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.
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This is VERY interesting — imagine if every decision-maker in YOUR city, elected or appointed, was required to experience just a small taste of what it’s like to be a bike-rider on badly designed, unsafe (aka typical) roads?
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The buses have moved to a new fast Wetherby - Leeds service. I wish it luck. Done well bus is a great product/service. We need more people to be using it. That wont happen imho without a big shift in complementary policies in tandem with the service upgrades.
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The alternative on offer is the Coastliner. Nice service but around an extra hour a day to my total commute. I'm struggling to sell it to myself. But at least i have alternatives. How many stories of the last bus are we seeing or going to see in the next 6 months?
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There is no buffer to support the running of this service compared to that on the rail network. Even (or perhaps especially) the premium bus service is the poor relation to rail in policy terms.
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Rail services have been unreliable but still not many people switched - dont underestimate inertia. Not that rail users would be prime market to nab passengers from...
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I can park in council car park in leeds all day for cost of a return ticket. So hard to see what complementary offer to bus company was.
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Last ride on tonight as service stops on 19/11. A fast bus with great comfort and facilities and top staff. Cheaper than train. Plenty of people on it but not enough. So it gets cut. Some reflections - thread
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Agree, was great to show how much we have done in a short time. I feel energised for the next phase of scheme development, knowing we can continue to improve and deliver a great active travel network for the people of Leeds.
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Great to host colleagues from @activetraveleng & @Sustrans in Leeds today and to show them the work we've done to enhance walking & cycling infrastructure & create new public realm. Some fascinating exchanges of ideas. We're proud of what's been done, but there is much to do!
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I cannot underline strongly enough how important it is that we start working to what the climate budgets actually mean. Infrastricture planning is working to a fiction. I see no legitimacy in requiring local carbon reduction commitments in LTPs if the DfT dont release.Demand this
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Breaking news: DfT told by @ICOnews to release forecast traffic levels behind net zero projections after #FOI request from @DrGregMarsden
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How heavy an electric battery do you need to move one human? Imagining how much lithium or cobalt or nickel would you need to extract?
Real graphic designers, help!
Hummer=3000 lbs
sedan=1000 lbs
golf cart=32 lbs
bike=8 lbs
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And in a parallel universe plotting continues for more infrastructure investment to tackle the inefficiency of congestion...
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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people.
Sound efficient?
HT @circulareconomy
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On the train back from London en-route right now. Hoping to move beyond the war on the motorist tropes... looking forward to a lively/challenging session
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Designing a world without motorists. Professor @DrGregMarsden talks to #Headingley #CafeScientifique at the @HeadingleyClub tonight at 7.30. Details 
cafesci.hdtleeds.org.uk/?page_id=172
cafesci.hdtleeds.org.uk/?page_id=172
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“We should hold DfT’s feet to the fire on the case for investment in a world where we have radically higher fuel prices and a cost of living crisis! We need to consider the implications for demand futures” full write-up + video here
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This map shows how far you can travel from each station in Europe in less than 5 hours!
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Remember, when the fresh snow flies in your city, it reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets for cars making them faster & more dangerous, and how much space we could reclaim for people & public life. We call them #sneckdowns. HT
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This. 96% of all trips in uk are under 35 miles. E-bikes are fab but not for everyone. The regulation change for powered light vehicles is key. This transition could happen quickly and be affordable.
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As cars grow expensive and enormous, the disruption of the automobile is becoming a real possibility.
How might challengers appear? In the innocuous form of e-cargo bikes and “souped-up golf carts.”
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I wondered how the speed of inter-city public transport varies across GB. So I made a travel time matrix and converted it to average speeds. 50mph+ is competitive with cars. Shows the importance of direct services and reducing connection times over high top speeds.
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#TheClimateBook launches today!
It was great to be a small part of this huge book, created by and featuring a range of voices on climate
In our chapter, and I write about industrial emissions - how to account for them, and how to address them
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🎉Out today. #TheClimateBook, a handbook created by which includes essays on almost everything 'climate' you might need to know about.
Honoured to be among authors in a chapter with on transport challenges and solutions.
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New SoS for revolving doors.
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The Rt Hon Mark Harper MP @Mark_J_Harper has been appointed Secretary of State for Transport @TransportGovUK.
#Reshuffle
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