CIHT members are playing a key role as part of a panel of leading UK transport and climate change experts is set to carry out the Welsh Government’s road review.
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CIHT members are playing a key role as part of a panel of leading UK transport and climate change experts is set to carry out the Welsh Government’s road review. Led by Dr Lynn Sloman MBE, a transport consultant based in Wales who has previously been part of the Lord Burns Commission, the panel will establish whether, in light of the climate emergency, new roads are the right solution for transport problems, or whether there are alternative sustainable modes of transport that would work better.
Dr Lynn Sloman, Panel Chair said:
“The Panel will bring a wealth of experience and diversity of perspectives to this Review. The climate emergency makes it imperative that we avoid any investment that increases carbon emissions, especially in the next 15 years when most cars on the road will still be petrol and diesel vehicles. But we also need to understand the problems that road schemes have been designed to address – whether safety, air quality or unreliability – and consider how those problems can be tackled without increasing carbon.”
Among the group of experts conducting the review, will be CIHT Cymru Wales Chair Julie Hunt BSc CEng CEnv MICE MCIHT, currently the Associate Director of Highways at Jacobs and a member of CIHT’s Learned Society & Technical Strategy Board. You can find out more about Julie and her role as a woman in engineering here. Other CIHT members include Professor of Future Mobility Glenn Lyons FCIHT and Professor of Transport Engineering John Parkin FCIHT from the University of the West of England.
CIHT is welcoming the Welsh roads review and continues to support the transportation sector play its part in making the UK a net zero greenhouse gas emissions economy by 2050. Please view CIHT’s ongoing projects and commitments on our CIHT Route to Net Zero page here.
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