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Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 April 2024

Travel emissions per hour

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How do you think of travel distances in your head? People often think in terms of the time taken to get there rather than the actual distanc...
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Thursday, 28 December 2023

A New Year wish – autonomous cars.

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Driverless vehicles are in the news again. ( Driverless cars: Tech possible for UK motorways by 2026, transport secretary says ).  The usual...
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Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Are buses doomed?

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Bus use has been in decline since well before Covid - in fact since deregulation in 1986 and more recently - since about 2012 - even in Lond...
Monday, 22 November 2021

Squatting on the Grid?

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A friend has been complaining to me about EV charging stations being unusable for months on end - Soham and Sutton EV chargers in particula...
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Friday, 30 April 2021

Decarbonising your home or car - which saves more?

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The global carbon budget is extremely tight and we all need to do what we can, as soon as we can, to reduce the carbon emissions from our ho...
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Friday, 18 December 2020

Climate change stories to be cheerful about

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It has been a very difficult year for several reasons. But it was not all bad. To cheer us up over the holiday, here are my favourite good n...
Friday, 15 November 2019

What next for the 2050 Pathways calculator?

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The 2050 Pathways Calculator was a tool to help us understand how to reduce our CO2 emissions by policy changes and behaviour shifts across...
Monday, 30 September 2019

How, why and how far we travel: trends since 2002

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The National Travel Survey for 2018 has been published - you may have noticed the reporting on aircraft travel. I have been looking at other...
Saturday, 3 August 2019

If I was on the citizen's assembly for Cambridge transport ...

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The Greater Cambridge Partnership did not get a clear message from the survey they ran earlier this year so now they are running a citizen...
Thursday, 6 June 2019

Hiring an electric bike

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Last week I had my first experience of an electric bike, which I hired for travelling to and from a business meeting. It was not an unqualif...
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Friday, 24 May 2019

Electric Blue - a new kind of sustainable investment?

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Community energy schemes used to be the no-brainer sustainable investment, for people with moderate levels of spare cash that could be tied ...
Sunday, 13 January 2019

One third of microplastic in the oceans comes from washing clothes - really?

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I recently heard a claim that a third of microplastic in the ocean comes from laundry, as synthetic clothes shed fibres in the wash. (This w...
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Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Where does air pollution in Cambridge come from?

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Air pollution is a big problem for our health, especially very small particles known as PM2.5 (less than 2.5 micrometres in size) that penet...
Thursday, 28 December 2017

Does ordering stuff online increase carbon emissions?

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How much of your shopping do you do online? Are you worried about the climate change impacts of online shopping? A recent study of parcel de...
Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Being together without travelling

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Christmas is a time for being together, with family or with friends. But it is not a good time to travel, with bad weather often disrupting ...
Monday, 4 December 2017

The future of Transport

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Will we have self driving cars or not? ' Travel in Britain in 2035 ' describes three plausible(ish) scenarios and only in one of the...
Sunday, 5 February 2017

What difference will electric cars make to our electricity demand

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Our UK electricity generation capacity margin is getting thinner and thinner and I frequently hear of PV projects cancelled or curtailed for...
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Friday, 27 January 2017

Sustainable travel for Cambridge - we have the technology, not so sure about the will

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Cambridge has a massive problem with traffic congestion and it is going to get worse as more houses are built - another 20,000 more homes in...
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Monday, 17 October 2016

If we had infrastructure like the Dutch, how many of us would be cycling?

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I have been having fun with the PCT (Propensity to Cycle Tool) which estimates how many commuters would cycle, based on a different scenario...
Thursday, 11 August 2016

Our personal energy use matters

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A friend recently complained to me that it was pointless trying to save energy at home because our domestic energy use is a tiny proportion ...