Travel & Transport

Background

Transport plays a crucial role in meeting the current challenges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK and sustainable travel initiatives offer an opportunity to make a real contribution by decarbonising transport. Sustainable travel initiatives play a key role in delivering local objectives around health, congestion, air quality, education, economic development and social inclusion. This TSN meets to share these ideas and offer support to those at all stages of the journey.

Topics which have been covered in the past include: tackling business travel flight emissions; strategies for promoting cycling as an alternative form of transport for local journeys by looking at travel behaviour and capturing these through good quality planning before infrastructure is put in place; promoting safe and healthy journeys to college/university such as cycling, walking and public transport, and car sharing or car clubs.

If you would like to join the mailing list for this group please email scotland@eauc.org.uk.
 

Next Meeting

The next virtual Travel and Transport Topic Support Network meeting will be held from 14th May 2024 from 2 - 4pm.  
  
We will be discussing: 
- Car club and fleet solutions with Enterprise Mobility
- Electric vehicle charging and funding options
- Roundtable on e-mobility insurance and fire risk workarounds
- Roundtable on driving license requirements for minibuses
- Further topics to be confirmed
 
The final agenda is coming soon. If you have any questions, comments or accessibility requirements, please do not hesitate to contact Lara Fahey at lfahey@eauc.org.uk.
  
To book, please click here.

Attendance is open to everyone with an interest in sustainability within the Further and Higher Education Sector, and free to attendees from universities and colleges, and elsewhere within the public and third sector in Scotland.

Contact Lara Fahey with future agenda items you wish to discuss or offer.

Other resources
Plane Talk: Reducing travel emissions in academia

EAUC Scotland, in collaboration with Wolfram Moebius at the University of Exeter and Jo Allatt from the Sustainability team at UK Research and Innovation, are glad to introduce the Slack community "Plane Talk: Reducing travel emissions in academia”. This platform provides a platform for teaching, research and sustainability professionals who are interested in or working on reducing travel emissions in academia to ask questions and exchange knowledge. It is modelled on similar supportive communities already operating on Slack. Join the discussion now!

Plane Talk: Reducing travel emissions in academia. Join the Slack discussion now.
 

Previous Meetings

8th November 2023 - Calculating Internationalisation Emissions with the Climate Action Barometer for International Education (CABIE), Carpooling via WhatsApp with Ecopooling, and general transport discussion. For resources and video recording, please click here

26th April 2023 - Travel Surveys, Highway Code, EV Salary Sacrifice and Cycling Scotland Funding and Internships. For resources and video recording, please click here.

19th April 2023 - Special event: Calculating International Student Travel Emissions with Estrid Jonsson. For resources and video recording, please click here.

6th December 2022 - Travel Internships, Car Clubs, Commuting Emissions and Business Travel. For details and minutes please click here.

31st May 2022 (Behaviour Change for Sustainable Travel) - For details and minutes please click here.

2nd December 2021 (Travel Emissions Post Covid) - For details, presentations and minutes please click here.

28th April 2021 - For details, presentations and minutes please click here.

11th December 2019 - For details, presentations and minutes please click here.

2nd May 2019 - For details, presentations and minutes please click here.

12th December 2018 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

12th June 2018 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

24th August 2017 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here

5th December 2016 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

19th May 2016 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

14th October 2015 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

27th May 2015 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

12th December 2014 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

2nd May 2014 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

8th October 2013 - For details, presentation and minutes, please click here.

15th April 2013 - For details and minutes please click here.

11th June 2012 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

23rd January 2012 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

29th August 2011 - For details, presentations and minutes, please click here.

 


Contact information

Convenor for the Travel & Transport TSN is:

Trudy Cunningham, University of Dundee
email: t.z.cunningham@dundee.ac.uk

To join the JiscMail Network for the Travel and Transport TSN and receive updates on meetings, please contact us.

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