Low Carbon Transport Innovation Strategy
Table of contents
- Cover page
- Foreword
- Executive summary
- Low carbon technologies and the road sector
- Low carbon technologies and the aviation sector
- Low carbon technologies and the rail sector
- Low carbon technologies and the shipping sector
- Key conclusions and next steps
- Introduction
- The need for a Low Carbon Transport Innovation Strategy
- Transport, energy & carbon emissions
- Scope of the strategy
- Low carbon innovation and the transport sector
- The “innovation chain”
- The Role for Government in Innovation
- Factors impacting on innovation for lower carbon transport
- Government position
- Low Carbon Technologies and the Road Sector
- Carbon emissions from the road sector
- Existing Government policies
- Key technologies for a lower carbon road sector
- Securing cost-effective carbon savings from existing and closer to market technologies
- European level actions
- Domestic level actions
- Light duty vehicles, HGV's and Buses
- Intelligent transport systems
- Further from market and longer term technologies
- Carbon impacts of longer term options
- Infrastructure issues
- Policy mix for further from market options
- Low Carbon Technologies and the Aviation Sector
- Carbon emissions from the aviation sector
- Government position on aviation’s climate impacts
- Air-traffic management options for reducing emissions
- Improving the fuel economy of the current aviation fleet
- Improving the fuel economy and emissions performance of future aircraft
- Longer-term options for re-designing aircraft to optimise fuel efficiency
- The scope for powering aircraft from renewable or alternative fuels
- Further work on more radical lower carbon options for aviation
- Conclusion
- Low Carbon Technologies and the Rail Sector
- Introduction
- Electrification
- Industry regulation: ORR’s sustainable development consultation
- Rail franchise incentives
- Design of new rolling stock
- Regenerative braking
- Further technical and operational measures to reduce carbon emissions
- Low Carbon Technologies and the Shipping Sector
- Emissions from shipping
- Shipping's contribution to the UK economy
- AEA/MAST report
- Improved journey management and incremental changes to existing shipping technology
- Other technological options for improving the fuel economy and emissions performance of future ships
- Encouraging the adoption of low carbon technology in the shipping sector
- Government funding for Research, Development &
- Demonstration of low carbon transport technologies
- Main existing funding sources
- Future new funding sources
- Environmental Transformation Fund – support for demonstration and deployment activities
- Improving the coherence and co-ordination of R,D&D activities
- Potential importance of a low carbon electricity mix
- Uncertainty, technology development and next steps
- Next steps
