The RTPI has launched a new report, with LDA Design, City Science and Vectos (a TPS Stakeholder Member)  "Net Zero Transport: the role of spatial planning and place based solutions" which explores how different places can achieve an 80% reduction in surface transport emissions by 2030, on a pathway to net zero by 2050. It combines advanced carbon modelling with stakeholder workshops to test the impact of forty carbon reduction interventions in four fictional places: a unicentric city, a polycentric conurbation, a regeneration town and a growing county. By setting out an emissions reduction pathway and spatial vision for each, it shows the contribution of spatial planning and place-based solutions to rapid transport decarbonisation. Visit www.rtpi.org.uk/netzerotransport

This research created four ‘place typologies’ based on real parts of England, and modelled carbon reduction interventions to see how each could achieve an 80% reduction in surface transport emissions by 2030 (as part of a pathway to net zero by 2050). It shows that achieving this requires a ‘do everything’ place-based approach which prioritises measures to reduce travel demand, followed by those which encourage modal shift for residual trips (at levels which exceed current UK benchmarks), and finally switching to clean fuels.