Transport

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Projects

INTERSECT-CHARGE: Designing Fair Futures for Electric Vehicle Charging in the UK

INTERSECT-CHARGE will explore how the UK can make electric vehicle charging fairer, more inclusive,...

Cross-Sector and Cross-Scale Coevolution and Interoperability

This project will investigate the evolution of flexible mobility demands over time, place and key...

Transport Energy and Air pollution Model (TEAM)

The transport sector remains at the centre of any debates around energy conservation, exaggerated...

International supply chains for vehicles and batteries

The UK is currently Europe’s 3rd largest vehicle producer. The automotive sector accounts for 10%

Interactions between sectors in the delivery of low carbon aviation and shipping

Aviation and shipping both require large transportable stores of low carbon energy. At present,...

Energy pathways for emerging mobility systems

Three principal innovations dominate visions of future personal mobility: Electric propulsion...

Ecosystem service outcomes of transport electrification

This project explores the environmental implications of transport electrification using ecosystem...

Sustainable Transport and Planning Electric (STAPLE)

In December 2021 the government published a new Approved Document S in the Building Regulations...

Preparing the power network for electric vehicles

This project explores the geography of vehicle electrification, interactions with the...

The transport report

What policies are effective at reducing carbon emissions from surface passenger transport? This...

Energy/transport systemic change

Research project on the energy implications of transport, providing new insights into the...

Accelerating Decreases in VAN Carbon Emissions (adVANce)

Whilst by 2013, official fleet average emissions from cars and taxis had fallen 9.8 MtCO2e from...

Publications

Journal article

Policymaker-led Scenarios and Public Dialogue Facilitate Energy Demand Analysis for Net-zero Futures

In this article, the authors undertake a demand-focused process for energy scenario analysis, led by policymakers and evaluated through public dialogue. They codesign, describe and model four societal futures that aim to achieve the UK’s 2050 net zero target.

21 November 2025

Research report

UKERC Transport Evidence Compendium

A comprehensive synthesis of two decades of UK energy and mobility research, providing evidence to inform strategic transport decarbonisation policy.

06 May 2025

Journal article

Climate change policies reduce air pollution and increase physical activity: Benefits, costs, inequalities, and indoor exposures

This research quantifies the health and economic co-benefits of net zero policies across transport and building sectors, making comparisons between net zero and existing UK policy.

13 January 2025

Journal article

Understanding the large role of long-distance travel in carbon emissions from passenger travel

The authors find that only 2.7% of a person’s trips are for long distance travel (>50 miles one-way), but they account for 61.3% of the miles and 69.3% of the greenhouse gas (CO2 equivalent) emissions from passenger travel.

08 August 2024

Consultation response

Ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans

This joint UKERC/CREDS response outlines views on the Department for Transport and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles consultation on ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans by 2035.

03 August 2020

Working paper

UK transport carbon model: reference guide

The UK Transport Carbon Model represents a highly disaggregated, bottom-up modelling framework of the transport-energy-environment system. This reference guide describes the model in detail, including functional relationships, data flows and main data sources.

28 May 2010

News

Article

Answer our Survey on What UK Transport Might Look Like on the Road to Net Zero

UKERC researchers at the University of Strathclyde and University of Oxford are exploring how...

14 July 2026

Article

UKERC Welcomes Four New Projects from its Whole Systems Networking Fund

Now in its third iteration, the fund broadens the people, institutions, and research areas UKERC...

24 June 2026

Article

Electric Public Transport Could Cut Kenya’s Emissions and Fuel-import Bill Without Triggering a New Battery Dependency, Study Finds

A new study using UKERC's TEAM model on Kenya’s transport-energy future shows that electrifying...

09 June 2026

Article

Electric Car-sharing Scheme Shows Vehicle-to-grid Technology is Ready to Scale

A new policy report co-authored by UKERC Researchers finds that Utrecht’s pioneering...

22 April 2026

Article

New Research sees Policymakers and Academics Unite to Map 2050 Net Zero Scenarios

In a first of its kind collaboration, new research published in Nature Energy has embedded...

21 November 2025

Blog

Where Does the UK Most Need More Public EV Chargers?

The Labour government has announced £400 million to install EV chargers, mainly on streets in...

08 July 2025

Article

Investigating Public Views on (Shared) Autonomous Vehicles

UKERC researchers have been exploring public views on Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Using three very...

09 June 2025

Efficient new ships won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement’s goals

Shipping has a low profile in discussions of energy and climate change. In this blog John Broderick...

01 July 2020

Road to zero or road to nowhere

Policy – and society – urgently need to engage with lowering the demand for mobility Like other...

29 April 2020

Are SUVs sabotaging the green transport revolution?

The demand for sports utility vehicles is threatening the UK’s attempts to clean up the transport...

09 December 2019

We should all feel ‘flying shame’ when we step onto a plane

Going on holiday is meant to be the one time of year when you forget your worries and let your hair...

10 July 2019

Disrupting transport sooner a “no brainer”

What are the impacts if the UK Government were more ambitious than the current ‘Road to Zero’

06 June 2019

Co-producing Policy through Stakeholder Workshops

(Repost) As part of our Whole Systems Networking Fund, the "Co-producing the Electric Vehicles...

24 April 2019