Department for Transport review: UK on ‘verge of a transport revolution’

The new review outlines how it plans to transform the transport industry with green technology. This includes a £90 million investment which will go towards making journeys ‘greener’ and ‘easier’ in towns and cities across the UK.

Britain's Department for Transport (DfT) has called it
the ‘biggest regulatory review in a generation'.

Transport has recently emerged as a detrimental industry to the environment, with a recent report by the Department for Business, Industry and Energy Strategy finding that transport was the largest source of climate-changing greenhouse gases in the UK last year.

The report aims to completely change this. In the foreword, Jesse Norman, Minister of State for Transport, says that the UK is “on the verge of a transport revolution”.

The report says that zero-emission transition is ‘essential’ for improving air quality and meeting future climate targets. Part of the zero-emission transition is investing in low-emission vehicles. By 2030, the Department for Transport is aiming for at least 50 per cent of new car sales to be ultra-low emission.

Read the story from ClimateAction by Rachel Cooper - “Department for Transport review: UK on ‘verge of a transport revolution’.”