About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and solutions for decarbonising suburban transport in Britain, featuring insights from experts and a review of a recent report.

This month, the Foundation for Integrated Transport released its paper on decarbonising suburban transport in Britain. Led by Jonathan Bray, it looks at the key challenges with providing adequate transport options to Britain's suburban communities, it picks out the main lessons we can learn from other cities that are way ahead of the UK on this, and makes a series of recommendations for the UK government. But are they enough? As ever, we'll dig in together to find out. For the wider, time critical, context, we are also joined for a look at the UK's transport decarbonisation plans - or lack thereof - with Professor Greg Marsden of Leeds ITS.Suburbs report here: https://integratedtransport.org.uk/new-report-decarbonising-suburban-transport-ways-of-thinking-and-actingGreg's overshoot report here: https://in-fuze.org.uk/overshoot-report/Support #Railnatter at https://patreon.com/garethdennis. Merch at https://merch.railnatter.uk. Join in the discussion at https://discord.railnatter.uk. You can also buy my book #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture: https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways

People in this episode

Host: Gareth Dennis

Guests: Jonathan Bray, Professor Greg Marsden

Topics covered

• decarbonisation
• suburban transport
• UK government
• transport options
• urban planning
• sustainability

Keywords

• suburban transport
• decarbonisation
• UK transport
• transport recommendations
• urban sustainability
• transport policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Foundation for Integrated Transport, Leeds ITS

Books & works: Suburbs report, Greg's overshoot report

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