The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) in cooperation with LDA Design, City Science and Vectos, and supported by CIHT and the Transport Planning Society (TPS), has launched a new report, ‘Net Zero Transport: The role of spatial planning and place-based solutions’.

The research paper explores how different places can achieve an 80% reduction in surface transport emissions by 2030, on a pathway to net zero by 2050.

It combines advanced carbon modelling with stakeholder workshops to test the impact of forty carbon reduction interventions in four fictional places: a unicentric city, a polycentric conurbation, a regeneration town and a growing county. By setting out an emissions reduction pathway and spatial vision for each, it shows the contribution of spatial planning and place-based solutions to rapid transport decarbonisation.

CIHT played a key role in developing this research, with CIHT Trustee Lynn Basford MRTPI FCIHT, Co-Founder of Basford Powers Ltd and a Chartered Town Planner, representing CIHT on the expert steering group which guided the research throughout.

For more information on this research, please visit: www.rtpi.org.uk/netzerotransport