Mobility Workshop

Transport contributes around 25% of total GHG emissions and emissions from this sector continue to grow. Improved fuel and vehicle technology alone will not be sufficient to achieve significant reductions; different demand choices and behaviours are also required.

The concept of ‘sustainable mobility’ is about more than reducing CO2 emissions, important though this is. Sustainable mobility will put people and their quality of life at the forefront of a three-pronged approach that focuses on the economy (through connectivity), people (through health and improvements in urban lifestyle) and the environment through reducing GHG emissions.

The mobility workshop discussed specific steps that can be taken towards achieving more sustainable personal mobility in cities in the developed world via measures aimed at effective behaviour change.

The discussion in the mobility workshop focused on three key areas: understanding behaviour; techologies that can help bring about behaviour change and the role of policy; planning and finance.

Participants

Twenty-three participants representing business, academia, NGOs and the public sector brought a wealth of different perspectives to the debate. 

Download the programme and list of participants. 

Presentations

The discussions were prefaced by a number of short introductory presentations: 

Neil Hurford, TRL
Charles Abraham, University of Sussex
Linda Steg, University of Groningen
Greg Archer, Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership
Jack Opiola, D’Artagnan Consulting LLC
Alan Wenban-Smith, Urban and Regional Policy

Conclusions

Read the report summarising the conclusions of the workshop.