Financial incentives are needed to encourage modal shift of passengers and freight from road to rail, maximising use of available capacity and reducing overall transport carbon emissions, air particulate pollution, water pollution by microplastics and road congestion, which will allow road spending to be cut.
Revenue raising alternatives to benefit austerity
- Published Mon 30 of Jun, 2025 20:46 BST - (0 Reads)An open letter to MPs - we wrote to them to highlight the role that fuel duty could play as a revenue raising alternative to benefit austerity.
Removing the 'temporary' 5p fuel duty cut would raise approximately £ 2 billion per year, which would offset the proposed changes to benefit regime.
Removing the 'temporary' 5p fuel duty cut would raise approximately £ 2 billion per year, which would offset the proposed changes to benefit regime.
Freight growth target
- Published Sat 03 of Feb, 2024 17:55 GMT - (0 Reads)Rail is the most environmentally sustainable form of transport, particularly for freight. The government's freight growth target of 75% by 2050 is no more than keeping pace with expected economic growth - so it is effectively a no-modal-share growth target. The most cost-effective way to achieve net zero carbon from transport is to set a target of at least doubling rail freight in the next 20 years. 92019 Dollands Moor to Daventry 4M38 Jaguar Land Rover Whitley (from Neuss, Nievenheim, Germany). Image by Train Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
Road user charging
- Published Tue 30 of Jan, 2024 17:09 GMT - (0 Reads)Opportunity, not threat. Railfuture suggests that there is a way of making road user charging politically acceptable. Appropriate branding for an HGV. Photo by Richard Says under <creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/> via Flickr.
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