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Smarter Moves: How ICT can promote Sustainable Mobility

Friday 1 January 2010

The Sustainable Development Commission's new report, Smarter Moves: How Information Communications Technology can promote Sustainable Mobility is published on our website today.

Transport accounts for 29% of the UK’s total domestic and international carbon dioxide emissions and is the only major sector in which there is still an upward trend in CO2 emissions. Almost 70% of this comes from road transport – more than half of that is from cars. The UK’s Climate Change Act commits Government to legally binding carbon budgets and an overall emissions reduction of 34% by 2020. 

Our report shows how ICT can make personal mobility more sustainable, reduce CO2 emissions, congestion and noise, as well as improve air quality, health, wellbeing and social cohesion through:

• Reducing the need to travel and enabling home working
• Making public transport easier to use and improving the journey experience
• Facilitating car sharing; car clubs; and helping people to drive more efficiently
• Ensuring adherence to speed limits - particularly through the use of intelligent speed adaptation
• Improving transport network efficiency and delivering road pricing.

As Government advisors on sustainable development, we make a number of recommendations in this report to DfT and other government departments to facilitate the use of ICT to promote sustainable mobility. These include sponsorship of an Innovation and Growth Team whereby DfT, BIS and DCMS can engage with businesses to remove barriers and realise the opportunities for ICT-enabled sustainable mobility.

We also recommend the creation of a UK network of high quality video conferencing facilities and encourage government departments, agencies and the public sector to stimulate these new markets through leading by example.

We welcome any comments or enquiries on this report. Please feel free to contact Duncan Kay, Transport Policy Advisor at the SDC, at duncan.kay@sd-commission.org.uk, or on 0300 068 6292.  

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