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UK bus industry targeting zero emissions from 2025

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The UK bus and coach industry is aiming to reduce carbon emissions by up to 500,000 t/y by committing to only purchasing ultra-low or zero emission buses and coaches from 2025.

The target is part of The Confederation of Passenger Transport’s (CPT)’s new vision for the future, working with government to improve services, help tackle climate change and get a billion more passenger journeys by bus by 2030.

CPT is the membership organisation for bus and coach operators across the UK, representing over 95% of the bus industry, including the major operators Arriva, First Group, Go Ahead, National Express and Stagecoach, as well as hundreds of smaller operators.

Additional commitments in the strategy cover widening concessionary fares to include job seekers and apprentices by 2021, which will help more than a million people to look for work and 800,000 apprentices to develop their skills; introducing price-capped daily and weekly tickets across multiple operators by 2022 in urban areas; and working with government to develop innovative sustainable solutions to rural transport. 

Graham Vidler, CPT Chief Executive, says: ‘Buses are already the cleanest form of road transport and have a crucial role to play in tackling environmental issues and helping to meet important targets on improving air quality and reducing carbon emissions. With the right support from government to make the transition, the bus industry will buy only ultra-low or zero emission buses by 2025, reducing CO2 emissions by half a million tonnes a year.’ 

Vidler continues: ‘We can do even more to tackle climate change and improve air quality by getting people out of their cars and onto the bus. If everyone switched just one car journey a month to bus, there would be a billion fewer car journeys and a saving of 2mn t/y of CO
2.’

Photo: CPT

News Item details


Journal title: Petroleum Review

Countries: UK -

Subjects: Road transport, Transport fuels, Climate change, Buses, Low carbon, Net zero

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