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All Sustainability articles – Page 13
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ArticleTrade associations say Ultra Low Emission Zone will 'severely disadvantage' London operators
Trade associations have warned that London’s ULEZ will severely disadvantage, or even bankrupt, operators that work in the city when it begins in 2019. Earlier this week Sadiq Khan announced that the zone will take effect on 8 April 2019, instead of the original 2020 start date, and launched a ...
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ArticleMPs call for significant expansion of low emission zones to tackle air pollution
A group of influential MPs has called for a significant increase in low emission zones across England's major cities to tackle air pollution.The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee this week called for dozens of towns and cities in England to become Clean Air Zones, broadly equivalent to London's Low ...
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Manchester tackles air quality
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is looking to roll-out a network of urban consolidation centres as part of its plans to tackle air quality.It plans to create shared-user freight hubs, both outside the city boundaries and within central Manchester. These would be used to consolidate goods for last-mile deliveries by ...
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TfL creates scheme to boost low-emission vehicle uptake
TfL has launched LoCity, a programme to help the freight sector make better use of low-emission vans and lorries.The five-year scheme aims to increase availability and uptake of cleaner goods vehicles and will bring together freight and fleet operators, vehicle manufacturers, fuel providers and the public sector.It will create environmental ...
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Warnings issued over Scottish blanket LEZ plan
Both UPS and the FTA have raised “serious concerns” with the Scottish government about its proposal to introduce a blanket Euro-6 low emission zone (LEZ) strategy across the country.The Scottish government said LEZs were a “potentially effective measure that could help to improve local air quality”. It added that a ...
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ArticleFreight sector needs TfL incentives now to boost low-emission fleet uptake, says FTA
The FTA has urged TfL to create immediate incentives for greener freight vehicles, such as a reduced Congestion Charge, if it wants to accelerate its vision of London becoming the ultra-low-emission vehicle capital of Europe.Speaking after TfL's launch of its Ultra-Low Emission Vehicle delivery plan this week, FTA climate ...
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Diane Abbott calls for London ultra-low emission zone
London mayoral candidate Diane Abbott has called for the introduction of an ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) in the capital by 2018, two years ahead of plans proposed by current mayor Boris Johnson.Abbott secured a Commons debate on London’s poor air quality last week (9 June), claiming City Hall has “abjectly ...
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Scottish Government paves way for low-emission zones
The Scottish Government has launched a national low-emission strategy consultation, which could pave the way for London-style low emission zones within two years.Guidelines for potential LEZs in Scottish cities propose new diesel vehicles must be Euro-6 compliant, with older vehicles retrofitted to bring them “as near to Euro-6 as ...
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ArticleHealth benefits from London’s Low Emission Zone have failed to materialise
The health benefits from London’s Low Emission Zone have failed to materialise because levels of harmful particles have not changed, an influential group of MPs has been told.Dr Ian Mudway, an expert in respiratory toxicology at Kings College London, told the environmental audit committee that his team were analysing data ...
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ArticleDfT to consider extending low-emission grant for larger CVs
The government is to consider extending the grant system for low-emission vans to larger vehicles, the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) has revealed.In a report on its plans for 2015-2020, the OLEV said uptake of the van grants which have only been available for vehicles under 3.5 tonnes GVW, ...
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ArticleFTA fears Birmingham's road transport strategy
The FTA has warned that a proposed low emission zone for Birmingham, along with a road user charging scheme, lorry restrictions and greater implementation of consolidation centres put forward by the city council, could have a damaging effect on freight deliveries in and around the city.The plans, contained in a ...
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Freight needs greater share of low emission funding, says FTA
More of the £500m being set aside for encouraging the take-up of ultra low emission vehicles should be allocated to freight vehicles, the FTA has suggested.So far, the majority of the funding to increase uptake of such vehicles between 2015 and 2020 has been limited to cars and vans, it ...
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ArticleGovernment's emissions strategy contains very little for the road transport industy, say associations
Trade associations are urging the government to provide more focus and funding to the road transport sector to help it play its part in reducing UK carbon emissions.The government scheme – ‘Driving the Future Today – A Strategy for Ultra Low Emission Vehicles’ - was launched by the Office ...
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Birmingham considers Low Emission Zone
Birmingham City Council is considering introducing a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) within the city’s ring-road in order to incentivise the take-up of cleaner vehicles by operators in the area.Proposals outlined in its Draft Low Emission Strategy revealed that it was currently conducting a feasibility study into whether a LEZ would ...
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London mayor gets LGVs off the LEZ hook
London mayor Boris Johnson has abandoned plans to introduce a Euro-4 NOx standard for trucks operating in the London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in 2015, but buses will still have to comply.The current phase 4 of the LEZ demands that trucks and buses meet only the particulates requirements of Euro-4, ...
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Air quality report may spawn tighter engine emissions limits
The European Union may soon consider raising the bar on air quality requirements affecting diesel engines, after publication of a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO).The report claims evidence of a link between fine particulate matter and a range of health issues including atherosclerosis, respiratory disease, diabetes and ...
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ArticleFelixstowe LEZ plans put on hold
Plans for a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) at Felixstowe port and fining the most polluting LGVs have been shelved after the air quality improved substantially.Lorries were calculated to be contributing more than a quarter of all NOx concentrations at a receptor site and prompted the local council to consider measures ...