1. Transportation

2. Transportation OUTLINE
Why do we need to make transportation sustainable?
Car reliance
Alternative transport options
Conclusions

3. Transportation WHY DO WE NEED TO MAKE TRANSPORTATION SUSTAINABLE?
Effects of climate change
Link between transportation and CO2 production

4. PETROL-POWER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Transportation
ACTIVITY 1
PETROL-POWER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

5. Transportation CAR RELIANCE
Emissions produced from transport account for 25% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions and 23% of total worldwide CO2 emissions (Committee on Climate Change, 2015; UNECE, 2015)
Public attitude could help to address this by using alternative forms of transportation.
Although technological advancements have allowed for vehicles that produce lower emissions, changing transportation could help address CO2 emissions.

6. Transportation
ACTIVITY 2
DAILY COMMUTE

7. Transportation ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORT OPTIONS
To reduce carbon emissions and safeguard natural resources, changes need to be made to how we use transport.
How could this take place?
Developments in technology
Changing attitudes towards travel

8. Transportation CHANGING ATTITUDES Car Sharing
Reduces the number of cars on the road
Reduces individuals’ carbon footprints
Walking or cycling short distances
Encouraging people to walk or cycle short distances (e.g. 1 mile to shops) can significantly reduce unnecessary carbon emissions
Can improve health and wellbeing
Cycle to work/school schemes have been set up in many work places/schools/colleges
Taking the bus
Further developments in green public transport and lower carbon impact means that getting the bus is a more carbon efficient way of travelling than using a car
Further schemes to ensure that buses are as low-carbon as possible

9. Transportation CHANGING ATTITUDES Greener public transport initiatives
Initiatives for lower carbon emission buses
Development of trams
Biofuels
Biodegradable and nontoxic
Produce less CO2 and air pollution than fossil fuels
Existing cars can burn biofuels – no need for a new infrastructure for distribution
Large amounts of land for production can have its own implications for CO2 production.
Hydrogen
Produced from water by electrolysis – any source of electricity is suitable
Effective way of storing electricity from renewable sources
New infrastructure needed for refuelling facilities

10. Transportation CHANGING ATTITUDES Electric vehicles
Powered by electric motors rather than petrol/diesel engines
Batteries can be plugged into an electric power source
Slow to charge and have shorter driving range
Hybrid vehicles
Use a combination of electric motor and petrol/diesel to reduce the amount of fuel used, reducing carbon emissions

11. Transportation
ACTIVITY 3
GREEN ALTERNATIVES

12. Transportation CONCLUSIONS
Developing sustainable and carbon-neutral methods of transportation are crucial to the energy crisis and limiting climate change
Advances in technology offer alternatives, but a change of behaviour is required by the public.
Introduced concepts of sustainable transport and why it is important
Identified ways in which their own attitudes towards travel could be altered
Identified a number of changes that could be made by the wider community.